Blanketed by a 2.2 million-acre national forest with the mountains as its backdrop, this Montana city is an absolute mecca ...

LIBBY — Shovels in hand, covered in dust, they work in the sandy soil above Libby Creek in the Kootenai National Forest. Like so many before them, they search the hillside and creek for the flakes of ...

Here on Libby Creek, gold's history is a web of hope and greed, of Indian battles and sourdough prospectors, of potential and promise and prayer, finally, unheeded. White, like VanDort, is a ...

Miner holding gold nugget, with point focus on the gemstone. Striking gold may seem like something only heard of in history books now, but there still are numerous places in the United States where ...

The Trump administration this week approved an Idaho company’s mine to explore for copper and silver near Libby in ...

Idaho-based Hecla Mining is ready for another shot at operating the Montanore Mine, located south of Libby in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. According to a press release from the Montana Department ...