RAVALLI CO., Mont. — Ravalli County commissioners held a public meeting Monday on the proposed Sheep Creek mineral exploration project. Public comment took the meeting over an hour past the scheduled ...

U.S. Critical Materials has submitted an initial Plan of Operations for their Sheep Creek project to the Bitterroot National Forest. They call it an “Exploration and Bulk Sampling Plan.” See ...

Prospecting for rare-earth minerals at the proposed Sheep Creek mine south of Darby will continue in 2025, after the Bitterroot National Forest approved a request by a mining company to conduct more ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Ravalli County Commissioners will hold a public meeting on Monday afternoon about the proposed Sheep Creek Project. The meeting will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the event ...

Out in a field of rolling pastures in Colbert County, across from Old Brick Presbyterian Church, 74-year-old J.C. Holt surveys the land he and his family have been farming for generations. Watching ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. MISSOULA — A Sheep Creek mine would bring economic development to the Bitterroot Valley, but the ...

Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that turned the town into a Superfund site. Libby’s tremolite asbestos lurked in the shadows for decades until ...