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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...
...throughout the Rockies is acidic drainage. Gold-bearing rock tends to contain large quantities of sulfur, which form sulfuric acid when exposed to air and water. The acid puts such highly toxic metals as copper and cadmium into solution, and the poisons kill aquatic life. That happened before when Henderson was mined...
Hard-rock miners tend to think of themselves as semiheroic, crustier than cowboys, and when a site is inconvenient, they say, "You mine where the ore is." Henderson's ore is entirely surrounded by environmentalists. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness is not more than a mile away on all sides. Just + a bit farther, 2.5 miles to the southwest, is the great national park...
...just below Henderson are the people of Cooke City, each of them, in winter, a full 1% of the vox populi. Everyone agrees the 400 or so summer people are mostly against the mine, but summer people don't count here or anyplace else. Winter people, real Cooke City people, are split more or less down the middle. Jack Williams, a folk artist who was hurt years ago in a mine cave-in, favors Crown Butte, and so does his wife Bertie. Carpenter Jim Barrett, head of a homegrown environmental group called the Beartooth Alliance, objects to being pushed around...
Mansfield testified that the number of childrenin a family is a measure of the social value ofthe relationship, Nussbaum and Henderson said...