Results for keyword: Mining
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Metalpalooza '09
Metals mining is making an unexpectedly dramatic comeback in the West.
by Cally Carswell, Nov 06, 2009 -
On Cancer’s Trail
The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to do with it.
by Florence Williams, May 26, 2008 -
An activist
Nellie Sandoval, the mother of scientist Stefanie Raymond-Whish, has become an outspoken activist as a result of her own struggle with breast cancer.
by Florence Williams, May 26, 2008 -
A well
Glenda Rangel and her family grew up drinking from and swimming in water tanks dangerously polluted with uranium.
by Florence Williams, May 26, 2008 -
A patient
Kathleen Tsosie, who has devoted her life to helping others, now faces the frightening possibility that her breast cancer has returned.
by Florence Williams, May 26, 2008 -
Men with boots
The transformation of once-scrappy mining towns like Silverton, Colo., and Superior, Ariz., into trendy tourist havens is bound to leave the locals with mixed feelings and some nostalgia.
by Jonathan Thompson, Feb 18, 2008 -
Condemned
In Idaho and Wyoming, old eminent domain laws allow private entities to condemn landowners’ property – as Peter and Judy Riede discovered when J.R. Simplot Co. announced plans to expand its phosphate mine and build a road across their ranch.
by Rebecca Huntington, Feb 05, 2007 -
Spinning coal into gasoline
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is eager to build a synfuels plant to turn coal into diesel, but it will neither easy nor cheap to make gas gasification a reality in the West
by Samuel Western, Nov 13, 2006 -
The Hot West
Graphics show the location of the West’s nuclear sites and uranium sources, and the nuclear fuel cycle is described
by Staff, Sep 04, 2006 -
Reborn
With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap
by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 04, 2006






