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 Stories About: mining and drilling AND Montana AND water pollution
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Vengeance Is Mine
Mining Company Funds Campaign to Repeal Cyanide-Mining Ban in Montana |
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07 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Vengeance Is Mine Mining Company Funds Campaign to Repeal Cyanide-Mining Ban in Montana In 1998, Montana voters approved a ban on cyanide open-pit gold mining, which for years had defaced the state's landscape and polluted its groundwater. That ban could be repealed by an initiative set to appear on the November ballot, funded almost exclusively by Canyon Resources Corp., a mining company that wants to build ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Hi Ho Sterling, Away!
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14 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Hi Ho Sterling, Away! If the Sterling Mining Company has its way, one of the continent's largest underground mines could soon be dug beneath the Cabinet Mountains of northwestern Montana, marking the first time that large-scale mining would take place beneath a federal wilderness area. Last month, federal and state officials granted the company a permit to ope ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, US Forest Service, water pollution, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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