Mines Management, Inc., the company that operates Montanore Mine, has received the Sentinels Safety Certificate of Achievement for its Silver-Copper Project in 2010.

Montanore Minerals Corp., the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, received the state award for outstanding safety performance in the category of small underground metal mines in the Rocky Mountain District. 

Additional information regarding Mines Management, Inc., and the Montanore Silver-Copper Project may be obtained at the company’s Website at: www.minesmanagement.com.

 Certificates of Achievement in Safety are awarded to participating operations that have met all of the award criteria as established by the Mine Health and Safety Administration (“MSHA”) and the National Mining Association.

“We are grateful for MSHA’s recognition of our efforts to create a safe working environment at our operations,” said President and CEO, Glenn M. Dobbs.

Montanore employees have completed significant work already with 7,200 feet of underground rehabilitation and dewatering in the Libby Evaluation Adit, as well as construction of infrastructure and surface facilities at the site,” Dobbs said.

“We will continue to focus on excellence to set a strong foundation for not only safety, but also environmental stewardship, community responsibility, and operational efficiency as we advance the Montanore through the permitting phase toward development,” Dobbs said.

The annual Sentinels of Safety award program recognizes achievement of outstanding safety records, to stimulate greater interest in safety and to encourage development of more effective accident prevention programs among the nation’s mineral extractive industries. 

This program is co-sponsored by the MSHA and the National Mining Association. 

All active and intermittently active mineral mining operations required to report injury and employment data under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 are eligible to participate.  Ten separate groups consisting of mining operations having similar characteristics are identified for the program. 

They are:  underground coal mines, surface coal mines, coal processing facilities, underground metal mines, underground nonmetal mines, open pit mines (metal and nonmetal except stone), open pit stone quarries, sand and gravel bank or pit operations, sand and gravel dredge operations, and metal and nonmetal mills.