Word: ores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their backyards and living on Easy Street forever. In New Jersey's Jefferson Township, a small (pop. 16,000) community nestled in green hills about an hour's drive from Manhattan, that old dream is a present reality. The rock beneath is veined with high-grade uranium ore that could be worth millions to those who own the land or win the rights to mine and process it. Which was precisely why, when some 500 residents jammed the high school auditorium on a sweltering night this summer, many of them wore brown and yellow buttons reading URANIUM-LEAVE...
...other in Illinois. Longtime enemies square off in New Hampshire. A challenger tries to pressure an aging Maryland Congressman into making a mistake. Some Senate and House races have a nasty, name-calling quality that makes the mostly clean-cut ideological contest in the House district centering on Eugene, Ore., all the more refreshing...
...vein that holds more than 1 million oz. of gold in California's wine-rich Napa County. Newmont Mining Corp. has uncovered gold deposits near Elko, Nev., that should yield about 440,000 oz. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co. made known last week that it had found ore containing both gold and silver near Round Mountain...
...rose $30.70 in New York, to $680 per oz.-companies are finding it profitable to crush even mountains of rock to extract the shiny metal. Homestake has been spending $270 per oz. to dig gold from a Lead, S. Dak., mine that it opened in 1876. Six tons of ore must be mined in order to get one ounce of gold. Extraction in Napa County will cost between...
...taped, with positive and negative poles together, on a car's fuel line, they slightly heat the gas so that the engine burns more vapor. Result: four to six miles more on a gallon of gas. At least that is the claim of George Goiri, 48, an Ontario, Ore., storekeeper, who began attaching magnets to his 1978 Mark V and 1980 Ford pickup. He had wondered what effect magnets, which can be used to soften water by altering the molecules, would have on gasoline...