Word: colo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Evergreen, Colo...
That case points to the central issue between Watt and environmentalists: their fear that he will let private oil and mining companies dig, drill and scrape at will on Western public lands. Says Chuck Malick, president of the High Country Citizens Alliance in Crested Butte, Colo.: "The West is being given away. We will become an energy colony for the East and West coasts...
...beer company created Coors Energy, a subsidiary staffed with some former Exxon employees. The firm may soon become still more active in that field. Says William Coors: "If the energy business is better, we'll be pushing it ahead of the beer business." To swillers of the Golden, Colo., suds, that could be too much of a good thing...
...have spent millions experimenting with shale-oil extraction in Colorado's Piceance Basin. Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer believes that his company will be able to begin commercial production by 1985, keeping costs below $25 per bbl. Today other companies are digging mines near Grand Junction and Rangely, Colo., and Vernal, Utah. Exxon is the most enthusiastic: last May the oil giant paid Atlantic Richfield $400 million for its share in the Colony oil-shale project in Colorado, and now plans to spend $500 billion over the next 30 years to build 150 installations on Colorado's Western Slope...
...each year; the Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Bingham Canyon open-pit mine in Utah, at two miles wide and a half-mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history. The Climax mine near Leadville, Colo., last year supplied 49 million lbs. worth of molybdenum, a blue-gray mineral used primarily in strengthening steel. Mines in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho led the Mountain States in production of lead ($49 million) and zinc ($24 million) last year. Silver and gold, those minerals that...