The proposed Montanore mine in northwest Montana is a combined copper/silver behemoth, aimed at extracting some 12½ thousand tons of ore per day—virtually all of it from beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness (CMW). This sort of mining is a dirty affair and the tailings and other wastes are a major concern in this project. (See […]
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Jamison Colburn Army Corps of Engineers, mining, segmentation copper mining, hard rock mining, Montanore, risk