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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