Loading ...Kootenai National Forest, an agency that manages 154 forests and 20 grasslands in the U.S., announced today that they have approved the first phase of Hecla Mining’s silver and copper mine in northwestern Montana.
The Rock Creek Mine would be built beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, an area of glaciated peaks and valleys that take their name from the area’s box-like rock formations. Grizzly bears and wolverines inhabit the terrain.
Despite the KNF’s approval for the project, the Associated Press reports there is no clarity as to when work could begin at the remote site because of an ongoing legal dispute between Montana environmental regulators and Hecla (NYSE: HL).
cont. http://www.mining.com/heclas-silver-copper-project-remote-montana-overcomes-hurdle/