Hecla’s Libby Exploration Project was one of 10 fast-tracked for ‘expedited permitting’ earlier this year. Some conservation ...

LIBBY — Shovels in hand, covered in dust, they work in the sandy soil above Libby Creek in the Kootenai National Forest. Like so many before them, they search the hillside and creek for the flakes of ...

Montanore Minerals' Libby Mine exploration project is a go after Kootenai National Forest officials signed off on it last week. The decision was lauded by Montana's congressional delegation, including ...

Here on Libby Creek, gold's history is a web of hope and greed, of Indian battles and sourdough prospectors, of potential and promise and prayer, finally, unheeded. White, like VanDort, is a ...

Idaho-based Hecla Mining is ready for another shot at operating the Montanore Mine, located south of Libby in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. According to a press release from the Montana Department ...