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The border, gas prices, Colstrip, the economy, trade, and more. Here's our chat with Montana's US Senator Steve Daines and White House Deputy Comms Director Alex Pfeiffer. "100 bad hombres in 100 days."

"Over my 30+ year career evaluating properties for the U.S. government, I have never encountered a deposit with the high rare earth and gallium grades being generated at Sheep Creek.”

Could this get our miners back to work at the Stillwater Mine in Montana?

If coal is dead, then why did I just see a train load full of coal just roll past my house? And where is that coal headed? Here's some great info after we attended the rally for Montana coal in Roundup.

"These deep pocketed liberal environmental groups litigate these attempts to get a mine going in Montana. Look what happened to Stillwater mine. Lost those 700 jobs. What a gut punch to our state."

Bears aren't the only thing you have to be worried about in Montana. Have you heard about this?

The Department of Defense is looking to fund a project that'll extract rare elements from the Berkeley Pit. But at what cost?

I remember when I got to attend a press conference and chat with Elon Musk in Butte, Montana back in 2013. This was the line that stood out to me after he was asked about rare earth elements and developing those resources here in America instead of China.

It was certainly great news for our friends in White Sulphur Springs and for the people of Montana when the court ruled on behalf of the Black Butte Copper Mine and the State of Montana. We caught up with former Meagher County Commissioner Nancy Schlepp, who grew up on the family ranch in nearby Ringling.

It's time to ramp up rare earth mining in America, especially if you want electric vehicles or so-called green energy. That's what Dr. Courtney Young, a professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at Montana Tech in Butte, argued in a recent guest opinion column.