HELENA -- Helena District Court Judge Thomas Honzel on Thursday ordered the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to begin partial pit backfill work at the Golden Sunlight Mine near Whitehall ...

HELENA - A mining company's potential profits are secondary to environmental concerns when the state selects mine reclamation plans, a state judge has ruled. In a decision late last week on a lawsuit ...

In a recent article published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers presented a novel mining technique titled the short-wall roadway backfill mining (SRBM) method. The technique aims to ...

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