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Letter to Lowe’s about Ironite Fertilizer
PUBLICATION DATE: June 11, 2002
SUMMARY:
We request that you act to protect human health and consumers’ right to know by discontinuing the sale of Ironite at Lowe’s stores nationwide.
Letter to Home Depot about Ironite Fertilizer
PUBLICATION DATE: June 11, 2002
SUMMARY:
We request that you act to protect human health and consumers’ right to know by discontinuing the sale of Ironite at Home Depot stores nationwide.
Decoding Cyanide
PUBLICATION DATE: February 22, 2002
AUTHOR: Robert E. Moran
SUMMARY: A Submission to the European Union and the United Nations Environmental Programme
Environmentalists’ Letter to Norton
PUBLICATION DATE: February 19, 2002
SUMMARY: Secretary Norton, you have the opportunity to benefit communities throughout the West and around the country by making lasting and important improvements to mining on public lands, according to these principles. The environmentally sustainable and fiscally prudent principles we offer are consistent with every other use of public lands. Thank you for the opportunity to share our principles of meaningful reform of the 1872 Mining Law.
Norton Reform Letter
PUBLICATION DATE: February 19, 2002
SUMMARY: Secretary Norton, you have the opportunity to benefit communities throughout the West and around the country by making lasting and important improvements to mining on public lands, according to these principles. The environmentally sustainable and fiscally prudent principles we offer are consistent with every other use of public lands. Thank you for the opportunity to share our principles of meaningful reform of the 1872 Mining Law.
Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Wells: A Threat to Drinking Water
PUBLICATION DATE: January 1, 2002
AUTHOR: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
SUMMARY: A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council outlining the threats to drinking water posed by hydraulic fracturing; and legislative solutions to minimize the threat.
Preserving our Public Lands
PUBLICATION DATE: January 1, 2002
AUTHOR: Thomas Darin and Travis Stills
SUMMARY: This guide provides concerned citizens and activists with the tools they need to influence key public land decisions concerning oil and gas development on our national forests and on Bureau of Land Management lands.
Norton Mining Rule
PUBLICATION DATE: December 1, 2001
SUMMARY: On Thursday, October 25th, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton announced that the Bureau of Land Management would revoke the strong 3809 environmental mining rule first published in November 2000, and replace it with much weaker regulations. On Tuesday, October 30th, 2001, the BLM published the new, weak rule in the Federal Register. In doing so, Secretary Norton ignored 97% of public comments, turning her back on Western communities and the environment.
Una Mirada Alternativa a la Propuesta de Miner a en Tambogrande, Per
PUBLICATION DATE: August 15, 2001
AUTHOR: Robert E. Moran, Ph.D.
SUMMARY: Los impactos que se proyectan por la explotaci n de la mina son graves. La construcci n de la mina requerir la reubicaci n de aproximadamente 8.000 habitantes de una poblaci n de entre 14.000 a 16.000 personas y la desviaci n del cauce de un r o.
An Alternative Look at a Proposed Mine In Tambogrande, Peru
PUBLICATION DATE: August 15, 2001
AUTHOR: Robert E. Moran, Ph.D.
SUMMARY: Projected impacts of the mine could be severe. Construction of the mine would require the relocation of an estimated 8,000 inhabitants of a total population of between 14,000 and 16,000 people and the diversion of a local river.
Millsite Claims
PUBLICATION DATE: February 1, 2001
SUMMARY: The 1872 Mining Law is an antiquated relic of a law that does not adequately protect taxpayers or the environment from the impacts associated with mining, especially modern mining.
The New 3809 Regulations
PUBLICATION DATE: February 1, 2001
SUMMARY: On November 21st, 2000, the Bureau of Land Management published updated surface mining regulations that govern hardrock mining, and its environmental impacts, on the publicly owned lands managed by BLM. At 12 AM on January 20th, 2001, hours before George W. Bush was inaugurated, the rule went into effect. Efforts by the Bush administration to obstruct last minute regulations did not block the mining rule.
MPC Issue Paper #3: More Cyanide Uncertainties
PUBLICATION DATE: January 1, 2001
AUTHOR: Robert Moran, Ph.D.
SUMMARY: Cyanide is a chemical lethal to humans in small quantities; a teaspoon of 2% cyanide solution can cause death. Due to a string of spills and accidents, this method of mining using large quantities cyanide to remove microscopic specs of gold from vast amounts of ore or crushed rock is creating more and more controversy.
Cyanide in Mining
PUBLICATION DATE: November 4, 2000
AUTHOR: Robert Moran, Ph.D.
SUMMARY: The use of cyanide (CN) compounds by the mining industry raises many conflicting and confusing issues.
Cyanide Heap Leach Packet
PUBLICATION DATE: August 1, 2000
AUTHOR: EARTHWORKS
SUMMARY: A compilation of articles and graphics explaining the use of cyanide in heap leach mining -- and its effects.
Hardrock Reclamation Bonding Practices in the Western United States
PUBLICATION DATE: February 1, 2000
AUTHOR: James R. Kuipers, PE
SUMMARY: The total, potential reclamation bonding liability of all the western states presently exceeds one billion dollars.
Gold At What Price
PUBLICATION DATE: February 1, 2000
SUMMARY: Since the U.S. holds the largest reserve of gold in the world, the U.S. stands to lose the most if other governments sell first.
Six Mines, Six Mishaps
PUBLICATION DATE: September 1, 1999
SUMMARY: SIX MINES, SIX MISHAPS, demonstrates that there are still too many loopholes and gaps in BLM mining regulations. The results are troubling because today's mines are massive operations thatuse dangerous processing chemicals, and have the potential to become major pollution problems. When something goes wrong at one of these mines, it is the public's land, water, and wildlife resources that are impacted.
Millsite Opinion - Leshy
PUBLICATION DATE: November 7, 1997
AUTHOR: John Leshy
SUMMARY: Explains that the 1872 Mining Law does not provide unlimited public land for ancillary mining uses (i.e. waste dumping).
Golden Patents, Empty Pockets
PUBLICATION DATE: June 1, 1994
AUTHOR: Thomas Hilliard
SUMMARY: Golden Patents, Empty Pockets reports the full scope and dimension of the patenting boondoggle and its origins in an outmoded Civil War-era statute -- the 1872 Mining Law.
Burden of Gilt
PUBLICATION DATE: June 1, 1993
AUTHOR: James Lyon, T. Hilliard, T. Bethell
SUMMARY: The legacy of environmental damage from abandoned mines, and what America should do about it.
- 1872 Mining Law
- Abandoned Mines
- Acid Mine Drainage
- Bristol Bay
- Conflict Minerals
- Critical and strategic minerals
- Cyanide
- Financial Assurance
- Human Rights
- Investment
- Jewelry
- Mercury
- Mining air pollution
- Mining regulation
- Mining water pollution
- Mining public comments
- Mining miscellany
- Tar sands
- Toxics Release Inventory
- Uranium
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