Hecla’s Libby Exploration Project was one of 10 fast-tracked for ‘expedited permitting’ earlier this year. Some conservation ...

Hecla Mining Company will proceed with determining the viability of mining ‘world-class’ copper and silver deposit.

Earlier this month, Hecla Mining secured US Forest Service approval for its copper-silver Libby Exploration Project in Montana, coinciding with a period of steep declines in gold and silver prices ...

We recently published 10 Firms Crashing Harder Than Wall Street. Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) is one of the worst ...

Decades after asbestos contamination was discovered in Libby, Montana, families and courts are still grappling with the health impacts.

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding is also threatened.... Near old Montana mine, special clinic for ...

A panel of judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of plaintiffs’ claims that BNSF Railway is ...

The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the state's claims for ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that ...

LIBBY, Mont. — Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as they ...