The new American gold rush is after a different kind of deposit than the veins, nuggets and flakes which tantalized the imagination of the forty-niners. These days the hunt is for low-grade, ore bodies with microscopic gold. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Jeff Marti
Posted inFebruary 4, 1985: Uranium mines and mills may have caused birth defects among Navajo Indians
A Western Colorado uranium town is beset by radioactivity and the economy
Layoffs at Umetco Minerals Corp.’s uranium mine in Uravan, Colo., may close the operation before high radiation levels and waste disposal problems do. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/17.2/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inOctober 1, 1984: A Western tradition ends with a conference on America's parks
Cities want wilderness water on tap
To some, the proposed Homestake II Water Diversion Project in Western Colorado is the technological answer to a problem of how to bring water to urban areas. To others, allowing the project would set a disastrous precedent because the water in question is in the Holy Cross wilderness area. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inSeptember 17, 1984: The Garrison Diversion Project is North Dakota's history, and destiny
Poachers’ pride leads to arrests
Two Cheyenne, Wyo., bow-hunters committed several blunders when they shot a bull moose last December. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/16.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E