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Local News - Local News - September 08, 2011
Revett unearths treasure at Troy
Company is still in legal battle over Rock Creek mine proposal

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

Spokane Valley-based Revett Minerals Inc. is in its seventh year of production at Troy Mine, in Montana.
Spokane Valley-based Revett Minerals Inc. is in its seventh year of production at Troy Mine, in Montana.
—Photo courtesy of Jim VanGundy Photography
When Spokane Valley-based Revett Minerals Inc. renewed operations in late 2004 at the Troy Mine, near Troy, Mont., its directors projected perhaps four years of copper and silver production there.

Revett's founders thought of the Troy operation more as a training ground for the company's main focus—developing another new underground mine, called Rock Creek, near Noxon, Mont., and about 50 miles southeast of Sandpoint.

"When we started the Troy Mine in 2004, it w...


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