Word: crowning
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...noticed gold rush in the West, devastating huge areas, often at high-altitude sites that almost inevitably pollute the headwaters of rivers. A worst example in the making, environmentalists fear, is a gold mine that Noranda Inc., a big Canadian firm operating through a subsidiary of a subsidiary called Crown Butte Mines, intends to operate in fragile Montana high country 2.5 miles from the northeast corner of Yellowstone Park and entirely surrounded by the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness...
...mining industry sees nothing outlandish in the risk Crown Butte proposes to take with the nation's oldest national park, and nothing funny about the claiming of ski runs by environmental jokers. Hard-rock mining (for gold, copper, silver and other metals) once ruled the Rocky Mountain states. The industry is foreign-dominated now (18 of the 25 largest gold mines in the country are owned by non-U.S. firms, most of them Canadian). Only one Western job in 1,000 is directly tied to metal mining. But mining interests have not lost the knack of command, nor have...
...royalty, but hard-rock mining pays nothing to the U.S., and a suitability review is an airy dream. Which is why mining-industry money has watered the grass roots of pro-development "wise use" groups such as People for the West. And why David Rovig, until recently president of Crown Butte, the outfit that has Yellowstone in its sights, solicited $1,000 contributions for Rahall's 1992 election opponent. Rahall won, but there is no certainty that his mining reform, now incorporated in a bill offered by Democratic Representative Richard Lehman of California, will reach a House-Senate conference...
Just above town are a couple of 10,000-ft. peaks: Crown Butte, which is a spectacular, striated pillar, and Henderson, a hulk that bears old scars from open-pit mining. Digging petered out here in the 1950s -- as it happened, only a few feet short of the mother lode. Underneath Henderson, recent exploration has shown, are ore deposits said to be worth $1 billion. It is here that Noranda's subsidiary Crown Butte is pushing hard to start up a large 24-hour- a-day gold mine and processing mill. Workings would be underground and no cyanide would...
...against Columbia, though, Harvard won 57-0, proving the first rule of the Multi-Flex: Don't ever try to predict it. The Crimson rolled throughout the rest of the season, and went to New Haven with an Ivy record of 7-1 and in the hunt for the crown. But Harvard lost to Yale, 35-0, and finished the season 5-2 Ivy, 7-2 overall...