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Mining News
Earlier this month, officials of the J.R. Simplot Company denied that a report prepared by the company on selenium pollution in waters near the Smoky . . .
Idaho state Rep. Shannon McMillan told members of the House Environment Committee on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency has had enough time to clean . . .
The Legislature's move to remove 'clean coal' from the University of Wyoming's Clean Coal Task Force and the Clean Coal Technology Research Account, replacing that . . .
Idaho was the first state to have its plan to manage federal roadless areas of forests approved. Colorado has been working on its plan for . . .
The Bureau of Land Management is studying Alton Coal Development LLC proposal to expand its strip coal mine in Utah near Bryce Canyon National Park . . .
Sen. Margaret Dayton worked with the Utah Manufacturers Association and the Utah Mining Association to revamp the state's five environmental advisory boards, and the Utah . . .
Conservation groups and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist have raised questions about the validity of a 1,200-page report prepared by the J.R. Simplot . . .
Conservation groups and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist have raised questions about the validity of a 1,200-page report prepared by the J.R. Simplot . . .
Silver prices hit an 11-month low in December, but since then have rebounded 22 percent, raising profits for Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene and U.S. Silver Corp. . . .
Utah-based Northwest Pipeline GP filed a federal lawsuit in Wyoming against Chevron, alleging that work done at a coal mine near Kemmerer forced the pipeline . . .
At the annual roundup of the Association of Mineral Exploration (B.C.) on Wednesday, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark that the province was working hard to . . .
The Bureau of Land Management received 210,000 comments on Thursday opposing Alton Coal's application to expand its coal strip mine on an additional 3,581 acres . . .
St. Louis-based Peabody Energy announced it would expand its coal mine in Colorado's Routt County to help fill long-term contracts for 40 million tons of . . .
Preliminary production reports indicate that the amount of coal produced by the 12 mines in Wyoming's Campbell County in 2011 was about 2 million tons . . .
Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter met with the miners and their families in Wallace to discuss the yearlong closure of the Lucky Friday Mine, and . . .
Revett Minerals Inc., the company that owns the Troy Mine in Montana, reported record production of both silver and copper at the mine in 2011.
Former Wyoming Gov. Mike Sullivan has successfully mediated settlement claims with some homeowners in Rock Springs whose homes were damaged by subsidence work done by . . .
Taku Ide shared the results of his six-year study of a coal mine fire on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation with the Colorado Gas and . . .
The closure of the Lucky Friday Mine in Idaho left 200 or so workers without jobs, and today representatives of mining companies operating in the . . .
On Jan. 25, the Port of St. Helens commission will consider the requests of Kinder Morgan Terminals and Pacific Transloading, a subsidiary of Ambre Energy, . . .
Atlanta Gold's maneuvering to walk away from its responsibility to contain arsenic contamination from reaching the Boise River bodes ill for a company that has . . .
Mine Safety and Health Administration officials they shut down the Lucky Friday Mine because conditions in the Idaho mine were markedly similar to conditions in . . .
The loss of 200 mining jobs for a year at the Lucky Friday Mine in Idaho's Silver Valley will affect nearly every business and resident . . .
Officials of Idaho-based Timberline Resources Corp. and Highland Mining said exploratory drilling for gold in an area 15 miles south of Butte yielded higher than . . .
Federal inspectors ordered the Lucky Friday Mine in Idaho closed last Friday, and said Hecla Mining Co. must clean the mine shaft of sand and . . .
In every instance where an industrial activity is banned for environmental reasons in the United States, critics decry the economic effects of such a ban, . . .
Kennecott Utah Copper is one of the state's largest employers, a fact that is often cited by state officials whenever concerns are raised about the . . .
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