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Troy Mine winds down and awaits SEIS from Forest Service by Duane Williams, KLCB-KTNY Radio March 4, 2015 Monday March 2, announced that the transition to care and maintenance at the Troy Mine has been successfully completed during February. Mining operations ceased at the end of January and an orderly transition of milling operations to care and maintenance occurred during February, 2015. A care and maintenance team consisting of eight Troy Mine employees is now in place. The Troy Mine continues to report a strong safety record while winding down operations and transitioning to care and maintenance having now completed nearly two and a half years without a lost time accident or reportable injury. According to John Shanahan, Revett's President and CEO, it remains focused on the advancement and completion of permitting the Rock Creek project. The U.S. Forest Service has circulated the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to co-operating agencies for review and expects that the SEIS will be issued in the second quarter of this year for public comment, 2015. __________________________________________ By Duane Williams, KLCB-KTNY Radio, e-mail: klcb@frontiernet.net, www.klcb-ktny.com

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