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 ...

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 ...

But even mine officials are pumping the brakes on the enthusiasm, saying a true opening of the mine with regular production ...

Nov. 12—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 ...

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 ...