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Category Archives: Mining & Exploration
Western Shoshone Prevail at Ninth Circuit Court on Mining Sacred Land
December 15, 2009 – 1:09 pm
Posted by Ahni on December 6, 2009
In a major ruling last week, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked construction of the largest open pit gold mine in the United States, Barrick Gold’s Cortez Hills gold mine.
Reversing a January 2009 ruling by the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit concluded that enjoining the [...]
Ballot Initiative Needed
December 7, 2009 – 11:18 am
Chuck Glossenger, Big Bay
POSTED: December 5, 2009
To the Mining Journal editor:
In a recent statement, local politicians Sen. Mike Prusi, D-Ishpeming, Sen. Jason Allen, R-Traverse City, Rep. Mike Lahti D-Hancock, Rep. Steve Lindberg, D-Marquette, and Rep. Judy Nerat, D-Wallace, accused sponsors of a proposed 2010 ballot measure on mining of talking about uranium mining in [...]
Doctors resign en masse over uranium exploration
December 7, 2009 – 11:17 am
The Montreal Gazette
December 4, 2009 1:58 PM
MONTREAL - Twenty doctors have handed in their resignations at the Centre hospitalier régional de Sept-Îles.
In an open letter addressed to Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc, the physicians say they have quit, as a group, to protest plans to build an uranium mine on the North Shore.
The protest comes [...]
EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells
November 24, 2009 – 1:16 pm
SCOTT SONNER | 11/21/09 06:31 PM Huffington Post
YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its [...]
Rio Tinto drops Prospecting Permit in Ottawa National Forest
November 24, 2009 – 12:43 pm
IRON RIVER, MI
On November 6, Rio Tinto notified the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Ottawa National Forest (ONF) that it no longer wishes to pursue mineral exploration in a 395 acre parcel of the Ottawa National Forest in Iron County known as the “Bates Parcel.”
Read: rio_tinto_letter_terminating_prospecting_permit_on_bates_parcel1
This is good news to concerned residents and [...]
Lawmakers downplay possibility of U.P. uranium mining
November 17, 2009 – 2:24 pm
But mining company spent more than $700,000 on U.P. uranium exploration in 2009
By Michigan Messenger’s: Eartha Jane Melzer 11/13/09 2:12 PM
http://michiganmessenger.com/30150/lawmakers-downplay-possibility-of-u-p-uranium-mining
Upper Peninsula lawmakers are railing against a ballot measure to create standards for uranium mining, claiming that no uranium ore has been discovered in Michigan. However, a Canadian uranium mining company says it’s [...]
Eagle Rock Honored, Small Homeland Victories
August 18, 2009 – 5:04 pm
August 18, 2009
Contact: Michelle Halley, NWF – 906-361-0520
NWF and partners pleased with Eagle Rock protection, will appeal remainder of decision
MARQUETTE, MICH – Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson announced today that he will uphold permits issued to Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 2007, with one critical exception that [...]