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Judge strikes down initial approval for stalled Montana mine
FILE- This Feb. 17, 2010, photo shows the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains tower over the lush Kootenai River Valley outside of Libby, Mont. Montana regulators have allowed a company to proceed with exploration work for a large silver and copper mine near the Idaho border with a warning that the project’s license could be revoked if concerns over the environmental track record of its president are found valid. The 300-worker Rock Creek Mine is proposed near the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) A U.S. judge on Wednesday struck down the government’s approval of the first phase of a long-stalled copper and silver mine that would be constructed beneath a northwestern Montana wilderness.
Judge strikes down initial approval for stalled Montana mine
MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) A U.S. judge on Wednesday struck down the government’s approval of the first phase of a long-stalled copper and silver mine that would be constructed beneath a northwestern Montana wilderness.
The decision against the Rock Creek Mine near Noxon is the latest in series of legal setbacks for a project first proposed in the late 1980s.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sided with opponents who said an environmental review by federal officials was insufficient because it considered only exploration work and not full-scale mining.