Mountain a Defense

Western Shoshone tribe files suit against gold mine on sacred mountain 0

Members of the Western Shoshone Indian tribe have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management seeking to stop a just-approved open-pit gold mine from digging up what they say is a sacred mountain in Nevada to get at some 5 million ounces of gold. If the project continues ahead as planned, the mine would cover some 6,600 acres of federal land.

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