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The Fort Beknap Indian Community, along with other groups, filed a suit to intervene to require the owner of the Zortman-Landusky mine site to complete a full environmental impact statement.

Contaminated water from the shuttered mine site has flowed downstream to the Fort Belknap reservation and fouled its water

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The implemented and proposed withdrawals are intended "to protect the Zortman-Landusky Mine area and to facilitate reclamation and stabilization for a 20-year term."

The Bureau of Land Management withdraws more than 2,600 acres from mining consideration and announces it's studying whether to do the same with an additional 912 acres requested by the Fort Belknap Indian Community.

Fines stem from satellite images showing unauthorized, unapproved work, DEQ says.

The owner of the Zortman-Landusky mining site has been fined more than $500K for exploring the site without permission or permits, and the state's DEQ warns it may have disturbed water remediation there.

After capitalizing on a two-day lapse in a federal mining ban at Montana’s beleaguered Zortman-Landusky mines in 2020, a small mining company appears to have been developing its claims without the authorization of the state environmental agency.

Montana Department of Environmental Quality has calculated a potential fine, more than $500,000, for a group requesting permission to do mining