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The motive for these mountainous excavations: gold. In 1961 Livermore, then working for the Newmont Mining Corp., made a seminal discovery. He looked for gold in the "windows" of a geological feature known as the Carlin Trend. Windows occur where obscuring layers of rock, displaced by an uplift, have eroded...
To extract gold from such low-grade deposits, miners must crush tons and tons of rock, which is piled into mammoth heaps and irrigated with cyanide. The cyanide percolates through the heap, extracting the gold. In the early days of the invisible-gold rush, a ton of ore might contain...
If gold mining in Nevada were confined to the Carlin Trend, environmentalists like Glenn Miller, a biochemist at the University of Nevada- Reno, would not be so concerned. But Carlin is not the only area in Nevada where mining companies are digging up the land. Hundreds of geologists continue to...
The spiral of bloodletting, which began in November, escalated last week, when landowners raided a mining camp, killing four people and setting houses ablaze. An angry mob from the settlement retaliated by slaughtering a Bougainvillean woman and her baby and torching her home. So far 39 have died in the...
Financial analysts said that Stone, who sits on the coal mining company's 13-member board of directors, could be helpful in settling the six-month dispute.