The potential for environmental impact is significantly less for limestone, sand, or gravel quarries than gold mines, and ...

Rocky Mountain Industrials (RMI) was ordered to stop mining by the U.S. Department of the Interior in a Jan. 3 letter citing permit violations and a lack of evidence of market development. RMI, which ...

On Wednesday evening, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released a redacted copy of its long-awaited Determination of Common Variety report for the Rocky Mountain Industrials limestone mine, ...

New quarries could be shielded from virtually any county or municipal oversight, including the controversial open-pit limestone mine proposed for Parleys Canyon, under a bill unveiled Monday in the ...

The Bureau of Land Management has concluded there is nothing particularly special about the limestone being mined at the Mid-Continent Limestone Quarry a mile above Glenwood Springs. The decision ...

For nearly a century, the curve of the Mississippi River just east of Scott City was a hotbed for limestone mining. In 1998, mining stopped. Now, production is back on as the new Grays Point Stone and ...

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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - An opposition campaign called "Don't Strip Glenwood" will formally launch Saturday, but there's already growing opposition in the region to a planned mine expansion ...

BENTONVILLE -- A jury voted to allow an application for a limestone quarry in the Cross Hollows area but also set conditions for the mining operation. The panel deliberated for almost two hours Monday ...