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• Earnings: Revett Minerals Inc.

  March 29, 2012 in Idaho on Page A10 For 03-29-2012

• Tribes aiming to stop mine under Cabinets

  March 26, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A1 PABLO, Mont. – Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are trying to prevent an underground copper and silver mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwestern Montana by … 11

• In grizzly country, caution is key

  February 8, 2012 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A5 Grizzly bears are tucked away in their winter dens for at least another six weeks. But grizzly specialist Kim Annis is already embarking on northwestern Montana’s rural talk circuit. Hired …

• Rock Creek decision upheld

  November 17, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 Building a mine beneath Montana’s Cabinet Mountain Wilderness won’t imperil the region’s threatened grizzly bears, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The San Francisco-based court said that the …

• Getting a nose count

  September 24, 2011 in News on Page A1 Next summer, grizzly bears will follow their noses to census sites. Enticed by the smell of fermented cow blood and fish guts, they’ll crawl through corrals of barbed wire to … 2

• Judge blocks Montana mining plan

  March 31, 2010 in City on Page A7 BILLINGS – A federal judge on Monday blocked a proposal to dig a major new mine beneath a remote Montana wilderness area that boasts grizzly bears, rare trout – and …

• Troy Mine ends shutdown warnings

  May 27, 2009 in Region With metals prices improving, management at Troy Mine has allowed warnings of a possible shutdown to expire.

• Court voids water discharge permit for mine

  December 5, 2008 in Idaho on Page B7 The Rock Creek Mine’s plan to pump wastewater into the Clark Fork River needs a higher level of scrutiny, the Montana Supreme Court said in a ruling Thursday that voids …