Results for keyword: Copper
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Remember the mines before China buys them all
China is far ahead of the U.S. when it comes to remembering the importance of the copper mines our modern technology depends on.
by Timothy James LeCain , Apr 27, 2011 -
Rock jocks fight a mining company
Resolution Copper Company is trying to obtain a land swap in order to mine at Arizona’s Oak Flat campground, a popular rock-climbing spot
by Hilary Watts, Apr 04, 2005 -
Phelps Dodge looks to revive mining in the Copper State
Phelps Dodge wants to open a big copper mine near Safford, Ariz., but some critics say that the company’s planned land swap is a rip-off, and that the mine may have harmful environmental impacts
by Mitch Tobin, Feb 02, 2004 -
Phelps tries to dodge bond
Phelps Dodge Corporation is at loggerheads with environmentalists and the state of New Mexico over plans to clean up the Chino Mine, an open-pit copper mine near Silver City
by Gail Binkly, May 12, 2003 -
Battle brews over a wilderness mother lode
Activists are fighting a copper and silver mine planned for underneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in Montana.
by Matt Jenkins and Ron Selden, Feb 18, 2002 -
Mine all dressed up with nowhere to go
The controversial proposed Carlota copper mine near Pinto Creek in southern Arizona has all the permits it needs, but activists hope an uncertain copper market and the company's financial troubles will keep it from opening.
by Tim Sullivan, Dec 18, 2000 -
The Berkeley Pit gets deeper
Skyrocketing electric rates and a resulting shutdown of operations by copper mining company Montana Resources mean that increased untreated runoff is flowing into the Berkeley Pit, the country's largest Superfund site.
by Kate Spinner, Oct 23, 2000 -
The Hidden West
Introduction to Edwin Dobb's feature on mining the past in Butte, Montana.
by Ed Marston, Jun 07, 1999 -
Mining the past
The history of the copper-mining town of Butte, Mont., sparks a searching meditation on the meaning and value of work and the place it holds now, as the Old West becomes the New West.
by Edwin Dobb, Jun 07, 1999 -
Mines must clean up their mess
Arizona orders copper companies to clean up mining contamination near the small towns of Globe and Miami.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 26, 1998






