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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Mines and Quarries: General Report, with Statistics ...
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Mines and Quarries: General Report and Statistics ...
Author: Great Britain. Home Office
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Special Publication
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Special Publication
Author: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Mines and Minerals
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Wounding the West
Author: David Stiller
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803242814
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Federal policy toward hardrock mining remains largely unchanged since the passage of the General Mining Law of 1872. That legislation was originally intended to promote settlement and economic development of the American West. A century and a quarter later, the region no longer requires congressional coddling, yet more than half a million mines and mill sites remain abandoned throughout the western states. These sites have created 180,000 acres of polluted lakes and reservoirs and 12,000 miles of contaminated streams and rivers. Montana?s Blackfoot River, made famous by Norman Maclean?s A River Runs through It, is one such battered body of water. Not only did the 1872 law essentially give the land and minerals to miners and mining companies?and it continues to do so today?the law also required no mine reclamation or water quality protection. State mining laws likewise required little or no reclamation. Wounding the West traces the role of hardrock mining and its relationship with the American West by following the environmental history of one Montana mine, the Mike Horse, from its 1898 discovery, through its heyday in the 1940s, subsequent abandonment, and eventual cleanup under the coercion of a state law that many would consider ill-suited for abandoned mines. David Stiller argues that taxpayers should treat mining companies like the for-profit enterprises they are and insist that the hardrock mining industry pay a fair royalty for extracted minerals and then put this funding to work correcting the industry?s worst historical abuses.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803242814
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Federal policy toward hardrock mining remains largely unchanged since the passage of the General Mining Law of 1872. That legislation was originally intended to promote settlement and economic development of the American West. A century and a quarter later, the region no longer requires congressional coddling, yet more than half a million mines and mill sites remain abandoned throughout the western states. These sites have created 180,000 acres of polluted lakes and reservoirs and 12,000 miles of contaminated streams and rivers. Montana?s Blackfoot River, made famous by Norman Maclean?s A River Runs through It, is one such battered body of water. Not only did the 1872 law essentially give the land and minerals to miners and mining companies?and it continues to do so today?the law also required no mine reclamation or water quality protection. State mining laws likewise required little or no reclamation. Wounding the West traces the role of hardrock mining and its relationship with the American West by following the environmental history of one Montana mine, the Mike Horse, from its 1898 discovery, through its heyday in the 1940s, subsequent abandonment, and eventual cleanup under the coercion of a state law that many would consider ill-suited for abandoned mines. David Stiller argues that taxpayers should treat mining companies like the for-profit enterprises they are and insist that the hardrock mining industry pay a fair royalty for extracted minerals and then put this funding to work correcting the industry?s worst historical abuses.
Open File Report
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Bibliography and Index of Montana Geology
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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