Timberline Receives Permit to Begin Development At Its Butte Highlands Gold Project

Timberline Resources Corporation announce that it has received its Amended Exploration Permit from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). This permit authorizes the company to proceed with its underground development and exploration activities as a pre-cursor to production at its Butte Highlands Gold Project. Timberline and its 50% joint venture partner are now authorized to construct... 

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Timberline Receives Positive Hydrogeologic Test Results At Its Butte Highlands Gold Project

Timberline Resources Corporation announced the completion of a hydrogeologic study at its 100-percent owned, royalty-free Butte Highlands Gold Project in southwestern Montana. The positive results of the study represent a significant milestone in the permitting process and the proposed underground exploration and development schedule. The study was a requirement for permit application and Timberline... 

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Revett Receives Approval of Rock Creek Environmental Assessment

Revett Minerals Inc. 67% held subsidiary, Revett Silver Company, and its wholly owned subsidiary RC Resources Inc. is pleased to announce it has received notice from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) that the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) covering final design modifications of the Rock Creek Project, located in Sanders County Montana, has been approved as final with several... 

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Les Schwab Tire Centers to Phase-Out Lead Wheel Weights

Les Schwab Tire Centers announced today that it plans to phase out use of lead based wheel weights for wheel balancing on passenger cars and light trucks in all stores throughout its seven states of operation. The company expects to eliminate all sales of lead based wheel weights for these vehicles by mid 2009. “We are moving from lead to steel wheel weights because our customers are looking for... 

Montanore Hard Rock Mine Exploration Impact Plan is Approved

Mine Management, Inc told the press on Monday that the Montana State Department of Commerce approved the Hard Rock Mining Impact plan which was proposed for the montanore Silver-Copper Project near the town of Libby, Montana. Mr. Glenn Dobbs, Mines management’s president and CEO, said that We are appreciative for the recent approval of the impact plan by the State of Montana. The Montanore Project... 

State of Montana Approves Montanore Hard Rock Mining Impact Plan

MINES MANAGEMENT, INC. is pleased to announce that the Montana State Department of Commerce has approved the Hard Rock Mining Impact Plan proposed for the Montanore Silver-Copper Project near the town of Libby, Montana. In accordance with the Montana Hard-Rock Mining Impact Act, the Plan is based on a study of the socio-economic impact to the communities in the Montanore Project area. The Plan underwent... 

Higher N.D. oil tax not likely to dampen production

An oil tax increase this summer is unlikely to slow drilling in western North Dakota’s promising Bakken oil shale, which is leading the state toward an oil production record, industry officials say. Prices that have soared above $120 a barrel will make the tax increase easier to tolerate, said Jeff Herman, of Bismarck, a regional land manager for Petro-Hunt LLC of Dallas. ‘‘With the price... 

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Research says more oil in area

The U.S. Geological Survey has released an assessment of the Bakken Formation, which stretches across 25,000 square miles from northeastern Montana across northwestern North Dakota and up into the southern region of Saskatchewan. The last USGS study, completed in 1995, estimated the Bakken Formation had 150 million barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil. Thirteen years later, the new assessment... 

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Billions of gallons of oil in North Dakota, Montana

A shale formation stretching North Dakota and Montana may have an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment. Known as the Bakken Formation, the find would make the recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana the largest U.S. oil reserves outside Alaska. The recently released assessment shows a 2,800 percent, or 28-times increase... 

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Proposed Canadian coal-bed methane exploration worries officials

A new proposal to drill for coal-bed methane north of Glacier National Park has Montana officials looking for a permanent solution to energy development issues in southeastern British Columbia. “We’re tired of fighting this project after project after project,” said Rich Moy, water management chief with Montana’s Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. “What...