Over the Divide

April 2003 by Staff

Legislative and Regulatory Update

June 2018

• Judge orders reconsideration of “bi-state” sage grouse population in California and Nevada
• Environmental groups attempt to reinstate hard rock rule

Molycorp Minerals Reopens Mountain Pass Mine

November 2009
During the great uranium rush of the late 1940s, thousands of prospectors spread out all over the western United States sampling rock outcrops for traces of radioactivity.

Confluence Placers

June 2013
Confluences of placer streams are well known as concentration sites for heavy minerals. The basic reason is that...

Platinum—Group Metals

September 1999
by Henry E. Hilliard
Excerpted from USGS "1998 Annual Review"

Newmont Tries to Become World's Largest

December 2001
Newmont Mining Corporation, Normandy Mining Ltd., and Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation announced a possible merger, which would create the world’s largest mining company. The boards of all three have approved the plan, but it is still subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.

Liberal Group Begins Push to Tax Mining in Nevada

January 2010
A Nevada liberal advocacy group is mounting a drive to get voters to back a ballot measure to collect more taxes from gold mining.

The Bawl Mill

March 2000
• Careful of that first step...
• A visit from Bambi...
• Is that your final answer? Or would you like to phone a friend?...
• Speaking of millionaires...
• Anyone for sushi?...

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