Kasandra Lundquist, 20, of Philipsburg, a Gem Mountain employee and a student at the University of Montana ... was digging for sapphires at the privately owned mine, 20 miles west of Philipsburg ...

Kasandra Lundquist, 20, of Philipsburg, a Gem Mountain employee and a student at the University of Montana ... was digging for sapphires at the pri vately owned mine, 20 miles west of Philipsburg ...

The Fuse Lake trail offered a shaded, gradual climb, cutting through meadows just often enough for a fix of sweeping mountain vistas ... Happy for ya. The Montana Fly Fishing Guide describes ...

But Montana Tech’s new mining camp for high ... took a tour of the Gem Mountain sapphire mine in Philipsburg and panned for sapphires, and wrapped up the day with a trolley tour of Butte.

He also has a store in Helena, where he sells gravel bags straight from the trommels to tourists who want to try their luck finding gems. Sapphire tourism is popular in Montana, and his is one of ...

Jeff Hapeman of Earth’s Treasury (Westtown, Pennsylvania) loves a gemstone with ... gemstones (figure 1). Montana sapphires have become particularly important in Hapeman’s career. He became involved ...

Mining activity began that September, with a joint venture between VINAGEMCO and B.H. Mining Company of Thailand to work the Khoan Thong Valley placer. From November 1989 to March 1990, 244 kg of ...

The expansion permits Signal Peak Energy to extract nearly 60 million tons of coal from the Bull Mountains mine north of ...

Montana's largest coal mine has been shut down over bonding issues with the state Department of Environmental Quality. DEQ has denied an operating permit to Spring Creek Mine owner Navajo ...

Federal mine regulators tell Montana that the state risks losing control of coal mine permitting if it proceeds with laws passed in 2019 and 2021. At issue are laws that softened cleanup bonding ...

The expansion permits Signal Peak Energy to extract nearly 60 million tons of coal from the Bull Mountains mine north of Billings.