Word: silver
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...Silver Bay: Living in Limbo...
...Silver Bay, Minn., is a pleasant community of 3,500 people nestled in the birch forests that line the northwestern shores of Lake Superior. Last year it celebrated the 20th year of its existence. This year may prove to be its last...
...fortunes of Silver Bay are tied to those of the Reserve Mining Co., which produces 15% of the nation's iron ore by extracting it from the area's flint-hard taconite rock. Reserve also employs 80% of the town's work force. In the late 1960s, U.S. Government scientists concluded that the taconite wastes, or tailings, left over from the extraction process did not sink harmlessly into the depths of Lake Superior as everyone supposed they did. Rather, the scientists said, the 67,000 tons of waste dumped each day contained asbestos-like fibers that contaminated...
...district court last summer (TIME, July 26) to end its pollution of the lake by next July 7. At present, the company is fighting with the state of Minnesota over possible sites for on-land disposal plants. Unless Reserve gets the site it wants (seven miles from Silver Bay, v. a site 20 miles distant proposed by the state), it is threatening to close down its Silver Bay plant -and in effect the town itself. The fight has engulfed neighboring communities. Citizens of Duluth (pop. 100,000), 60 miles to the southwest, are particularly bitter because more than three years...
Rich Deposits. The issue inflaming the Chilean and Peruvian nationalism, which is pulling the two countries to the brink of war, is possession of the Atacama Desert's rich deposits of copper, silver and nitrates. Peru lost the land to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Since then, Peruvian leaders occasionally have talked about regaining the lost territory, hinting that this would be accomplished by the war's centenary-now only two years away...