Native Americans
Dec. 5, 2009
9th Circuit Halts Gold Mine Project
Western Shoshone tribal members fighting to halt a huge gold mine expansion on a sacred mountain in Nevada got some help Thursday from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Western Shoshone tribal members fighting to halt a huge gold mine expansion on a sacred mountain in Nevada got some help Thursday from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The dispute pits the Shoshone and other Native American tribes against the federal government, which approved the project, and Barrick Cortez Inc., a Toronto-based mining company that plans to dig an...
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