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NEWS ABOUT: gold mine

gold mine stories: 4 news summaries

 Salmon Protections 
 Strike Calif.'s New '49ers 

Gold prospectors banned from using 21st-century dredgers

Nov 3, 09 6:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Prospectors seeking to join California's new gold rush are facing an upstream battle amid moves to protect the state's salmon stocks. Suction dredge mining, which uses gas-powered machines to scrape gold from river beds, has been banned while its environmental impact is reviewed, a process expected to take until 2011.... More »

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California • salmon • gold mine • gold rush • prospector

(Newser) - Two people were killed today in the latest attack near a US-owned gold mine in Indonesia's Papua province, the AP reports. At least 12 people have been killed or wounded in ambushes near the mine in recent weeks. Authorities blame separatist rebels, who have been waging an insurgency in the... More »

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Indonesia • mine • Freeport McMoRan • gold mine • Papua • indigenous peoples • West Papua

(Newser) - As the price of gold continues its steady climb—at $271 before 9/11, it's now above $835—National Geographic provides a sobering look at the human and environmental costs of finding it and digging it up. With the world's biggest deposits long gone and new discoveries rare, "it's an... More »

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China • India • Peru • gold • gold mine • commodity prices

Price of Gold: Alaska's Salmon

Fear region's resource will be devastated

Dec 25, 07 7:04 AM CST
(Newser) - The world's largest sockeye salmon fishery, located in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska, is threatened with destruction by a proposed gold mine, which could become the biggest in North America. The planned Pebble Mine has polarized the state; mining companies, on the one hand, and environmentalists and commercial fishing... More »

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Alaska • salmon • fish • sockeye salmon • gold mine • Pebble Mine • Northern Dynasty Minerals • Anglo American • Cook Inlet • Bristol Bay • Bristol Bay Native Corp

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