Editorial

February 2002 by Guest Writer

EPA Chief to Reconsider Paying Claims Over Mine Waste Spill

September 2017

“We feel that we can clean up an area that has been abandoned after 100 years of mining,” Lyon said.

Ask The Experts

December 2014
• Real or fool's gold?

The Bawl Mill

June 1999
• Shrimp, no shrimp of a problem for LAX...
• Southern California also has the arroyo southwestern toad...

Historic Mining at Mount Diablo, CA

September 1999
Located in Contra Costa County in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mount Diablo was the site of the largest coal mining operation in the state in the last half of the nineteenth century. The northern foothills of the mountain produced nearly four million tons of coal.

Record $11 Million Fine for California Mine

July 2013
State regulators imposed a record $11 million fine on the operators of a gold mine in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

April 2015
• Positive bill passes House
• Anti-mining bill dies in Washington State

Working the Belmont Mine Butte, Montana—1953

October 2002
Waiting to go underground in the Belmont Mine in Butte, Montana, I hoped that I didn’t look like a green college kid. I enjoyed watching the ropes run through the sheaves at the top of the head frame as the shaft crew was busy changing over...

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