In the Spotlight
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Rules have changed, miners say; neighbors, environmentalists wary |
October 20, 2011. RGJ: "http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110210345"
Mining has a conflicted history in Mason Valley. While it has provided steady work from 1915 to 1978, the land was left with an open scar after mining operations ceased--the massive Yerington pit. It's about a mile long, 800 feet deep and half full of water. |
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The new copper run: Yerington mining plans could bring hundreds of jobs |
October 17, 2011. RGJ: "http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110160377"
Yerington looks a little rough around the edges. The small city with a population of about 3,000, the Lyon County sister city to Fernley, could be the poster-child town of rural Nevada for the state's ongoing recession, considered the worst in state history. |
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October 06, 2011. Associated Press: "Tribe battles BLM over Nev. gold mine in US court"
RENO, Nev. — Lawyers for environmentalists and several Nevada tribes urged a federal judge Thursday to keep in place restrictions from a 2009 court order that blocks the expansion of a gold mine at the base of a mountain that some Western Shoshone consider sacred. |
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February 15, 2011. Associated Press: "Toxic Nevada mine lawsuit seeks $5M from BP, ARCO"
RENO, Nev. -- Neighbors of a toxic mine in northern Nevada have filed a class-action lawsuit against BP America and Atlantic Richfield Co. accusing them of intentionally and negligently concealing the extent of the contamination leaking off the abandoned site for decades. |
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Crescent Valley
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Mount Tenabo Threatened |
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Mount Tenabo, a site of cultural importance to the Shoshone people,
threatened by open pit gold mining.
Photo credit: GBRW
The traditional domain of the Shoshone people stretches across much of the Great Basin. The area is currently impacted by more than three dozen large gold mines, and Crescent Valley is now the epicenter for gold exploration in the lower 48 states.
In the past 40 years, some $26 billion in gold has been extracted from the Western Shoshone lands. Now that the biggest gold deposit on record has been discovered in this area, groundwater loss and contamination, as well as the destruction of significant cultural sites, threaten Shoshone and non-native communities.
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A brief background on Mt. Tenabo by Christopher Sewall |
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A brief background on Mt. Tenabo by Christopher Sewall
Mt. Tenabo is located in central Nevada, approximately 20 miles
south and a little west of the town of Crescent Valley. It stands at
the intersection of three valleys, a familiar land mark along major
Newe trails, one coming up Grass Valley from the south and another
coming from the west through Carico Lake Valley and Reese River Valley.
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