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.

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.

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.

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.