But townsfolk fear this water could be contaminated if uranium mining, or even exploratory drilling, is permitted.
Generations of mining men knew Butte, Mont, as an "island of easy money surrounded by oceans of whiskey.
Today, gold and other precious-metal mining companies are extracting bounties of ore, leaving behind scarred mountainsides, toxic acid-rock runoffs and waste-rock dumps and .
Julia Gillard in Sydney Morning Herald To reach a consensus, we need do more than consult. We need to negotiate,she said. "We must end this uncertainty, which is not good for this nation. That is why today I am throwing open the government's door to the mining industry, and I...
Alain Belda in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review In a statement, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda said, "We have long believed that Rio Tinto has a world-class portfolio of assets and is very well positioned to prosper in the current mining cycle. This investment, made in partnership with Chinalco, allows us...
Robert Byrd in Tribune Review In a December op-ed piece, Byrd wrote that the West Virginia coal industry had to change in order to survive, and acknowledged: "It is also a reality that the practice of mountaintop-removal mining has a diminishing constituency in Washington."