I’ve known that my 1898 house is set into mine waste since nearly the day I moved in, when I saw mica and pyrite on the basement floor. It was sloughing off the exposed wall beneath the stairs ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — A proposed silver and copper mine beneath northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains Wilderness cleared a significant hurdle Tuesday with the completion of an environmental ...

Because of declining silver market prices, the cost of wood to supply the steam engines at the mine and its machinery, and rising costs of processing, the Silver King Mine was closed in 1888.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmentalists have asked Montana regulators to suspend permits for two silver mines citing concerns over the track record of the president of the company behind the ...

HELENA (AP) — Canada-based RX Exploration has applied for an operating permit to expand a gold and silver mine northwest of Helena after regulatory officials became concerned the company was ...

Silver King and Deer Springs fires continue to rage out of control in southern Utah. ... a gold mine that operated through the 1890s. On the south of Bullion Creek, ...