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Results for keyword: Gold

  • More precious than gold?

    After 18 years, agreements pave the way for a mine on Buckhorn Mountain

    by Marty Durlin, May 08, 2008

  • Hobby miners flock to public streams

    Amateur gold prospectors are invading the West’s publicly owned streams, and environmentalists say the hobby’s popularity threatens fish and the environment

    by Matthew Preusch, May 01, 2006

  • The Great Salt Lake's dirty little secret

    Utah’s Great Salt Lake is loaded with mercury, and scientists are trying to figure out whether Nevada’s gold mines are part of the problem

    by Patrick Farrell, Aug 08, 2005

  • Gold mining proposed in historic South Passarea

    A Canadian mining company, the Fremont Gold Corporation, plans to dig 200 test pits for a possible mining operation five miles from the South Pass National Historic Landmark in Wyoming, where wagon trains once traveled

    by Brodie Farquhar, May 16, 2005

  • Bears and bull trout may block mine

    A judge rules that constructing the Rock Creek Mine would jeopardize threatened populations of grizzly and bull trout in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of Montana

    by J.M. McCord, May 02, 2005

  • We’ve seen enough destruction from mining

    The writer says acid-mine drainage lasts forever, and that’s why Montanans should retain their ban against gold mining using cyanide

    by Jonathan Windy Boy, Oct 25, 2004

  • Mining research tool debuts on Web

    The Environmental Working Group has a new Web site, "Who owns the West," which gives users a comprehensive look at mining claims on public lands

    by Dan Wilcock, Aug 30, 2004

  • A Colorado corporation throws its weight around in Montana

    The writer attacks a mining company for bankrolling a ballot initiative in Montana that would allow cyanide heap-leach mining to resume

    by Jeff Milchen, Jul 19, 2004

  • Mining rules put industry on rocky ground

    Industry officials say that two new regulations could mean the end of gold-mining in California

    by Jessica Toubman, May 26, 2003

  • A mine falls, and a tribe may get the shaft

    Part of the price of stopping the planned New World Mine near Yellowstone may turn out to be the development of coal reserves along Otter Creek, next to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation

    by Ray Ring and Bob Struckman, Jan 20, 2003
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