Another Bush Legacy - Largest Open Pit Cyanide Gold MineTo Western Shoshone!!!

[Bobbieo]

November 20, 2008 Reno and Crescent Valley, NV- Last week, after years of determined opposition from Western Shoshone, the U.S. Department of Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approved one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States on the flank of Mount Tenabo – an area well-known for its spiritual and cultural importance to the Western Shoshone.

The area is home to local Shoshone creation stories, spirit life, medicinal, food and ceremonial plants and items and continues to be used to this day by Shoshone for spiritual and cultural practices. Over the years, tens of thousands of individuals and organizations from across the United States and around the world have joined with the Shoshone and voiced their opposition to this mine.

http://nativeunity.blogspot.com

[rocktots]

1. #$@*)$)

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I thought this kind of crap was banned...Nevada and Utah will have massive contamination....

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[LeftyMom]

2. Crescent Valley is probably one of the nicest spots on earth.

Maybe not the prettiest (unless you're into high desert) and definitely not the most prosperous, but the people who live there are some of the nicest, most decent people you'll ever meet.

My grandparents are buried there, on a hilltop near where the rail line passes through, up toward Beowawe.

[Ecumenist]

4. Can this be turned around? With the new administration, that is?

[Bobbieo]

5. Interior Secretary Raul Grijalva will do his best! to turn it around.

[quidam56]

6. Appalachia can't stand anymore...

Our beautiful landscape is turning into a moonscape. --> see pics http://www.wisecountyissues This is Third World America thanks to Presidebt Bush and THE COAL INDUSTRY.

[Ecumenist]

3. OMG, one of my closest friends is Shoshone and she's not going to be happy about this

at all. How much more are the native people supposed to take?