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Down To Earth archive for Jan. 29, 2009

THURSDAY, JAN. 29, 2009

Digging out of a 137-year-old hole

To say that reform of an antiquated 137-year-old bill is drastically overdue would be a grave misrepresentation. Yet here we are, in 2009, and a hardrock mining law that promoted expansion of the West - a bill that was passed in 1872 - is still…

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