Press Clippings

Associated Press

Environmentalists Fight Montana Mine, by Nicholas K. Geranios.

Daily InterLake

Forest Service Gives Go-Ahead to Rock Creek Mine, by William L. Spence.

Helena Independent Record

Governor, Groups: Mine on Idaho, Montana Border May Drain Lakes, by Chris Smith

High Country News

Battle Brews Over a Wilderness Mother Lode, by Matt Jenkins & Ron Selden. Activists say Montana's Rock Creek mine would harm grizzly, bull trout and clean water.

Legal Affairs

Moving Mountains, by Geoffrey Gagnon. Prospector Frank Duval has wanted to extract the silver lining from the protected Cabinet Mountains for 40 years. Why he may very well get his way.

Los Angeles Times

Tiffany & Co. Takes Its Gloves Off Over Mining Plan, by Elizabeth Shogren. The famed jewelry firm criticizes the U.S. Forest Service's decision to allow a silver and copper mine in a Montana wilderness Area.

Missoulian

Rock Creek Mine Challenged Again, by Daryl Gadbow.

New York Times

Wilderness Above, a Mine Below and a Furor, by Sam Howe Verhovek.

Seattle Times

Cleaning Up the Mess of Archaic Mining Laws, by Mindy Cameron.

Washington Post

Mine Project Is No Jewel for Tiffany & Co., by Judy Sarasohn

Another Washington Post Article

Bush Shows No Fear in Grizzly Territory, by Blaine Harden. White House Takes on Popular Icon with Mining Plan.

Missoulian

Rock Creek mine won't hurt wildlife ,agency rules By Michael Jamison

The Daily Interlake

Information on the Cline coal mine By Jim Mann

The Hungry Horse News

Information on the Cline coal mine By Heidi Desch

1872 mining law reform

The time for mining reform is now.

Alaska Gold Mine Threatens Pristine Waters, Wilderness

Example of the environmental impacts the industry and the permitting agencies see as acceptable.

Forest Service Letter of Approval

Forest Service agrees to Rock Creek groundbreaking.

Mining Companies in Cabinet Showdown

Greed prevails in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness

Federal Investigators Find Troy Mine Negligent in Fatal Accident

"engaged in aggravated conduct constituting more than ordinary negligence"

U.S. Forest Service Letter of Determination

In a predicted administrative action, the U.S. Forest Service sanctions the Rock Creek mine. Approval of groundbreaking activities by the agency will continue to be vigorously contested.

MHSA Report

 

Troy Mine partnership dissolved

Federal regulators say their relationship with management at the Troy Mine has deteriorated in the months following a fatal accident there, forcing them to dissolve a partnership with the company after mine management ignored a number of safety recommendations. At the same time, inspectors with the Mine Safety and Health Administration have handed down yet another round of violations at the mine, several of which deal specifically with inadequate underground supports.

Conservationists Challenge Federal Approvals of Rock Creek Mine Plan