Not the way Sterling Mining wants to do it. The Clark Fork was listed as one of America's most endangered rivers today because of the threat posed by the Rock Creek Mine. Click here for our press release and here for coverage from the Missoulian . And here for American River's web site . Fifteen years later, there's still no mine, but there's still a threat.
Sterling is based in Helena, Montana.
They say they're homegrown. We say they're dangerous. Use the links below to learn about the the company's ill-proposed plan to strip 100 million tons of ore from beneath two wilderness peaks, and about our efforts to stop them from fouling the lower Clark Fork River and Lake Pend Oreille.