Capitol Hill's longest-running outrage: Congress winks while the mining companies shaft the taxpayers.
Congress winks while the mining companies shaft the taxpayers Joining the Senate in 1975 was a traumatic experience for me. I had been governor of Arkansas for four years and I was accustomed to making policy, giving my approval to legislation that I thought had merit, vetoing legislation...

Corporations get the gold, taxpayers get the shaft.
This is the ninth agonizing year of my effort to reform the Mining Law of 1872, signed by Ulysses S. Grant and intended to entice people to "go west" and settle. Because I will leave the Senate at the end of the year, the conclusion of my...

In defence of Dominica.
Until twelve months ago, few citizens of Dominica had ever heard of BHP, Australia's largest mining company and one of the world's largest copper producers. Now they fear that the company will replicate in Dominica the destruction of ecology and lifestyles caused by its Ok Tedi mine in Papua New...

Olympic coast claimed to harbor minerals.
A would-be prospector has asserted a claim to speculative mineral reserves underlying the north coast of Olympic National Park in Washington. Claiming a long-standing patent to possible gold and other "outstanding mineral reserves [that] are quite extensive" beneath Shi-Shi Beach, in May 1994 Scott Watson applied for a special-use...

DENR pushes policy reforms in mining.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is pushing for the direct access of local government units (LGUs ) to excise taxes so as to protect LGUs, Indigenous People (IP) groups, and the entire mining sector. DENR Secretary Jose L....

New Boundaries of Influence in Highland Papua: 'Culture', Mining and Ritual Conversions.
ABSTRACT This article considers the new boundaries of influence among Fuyuge speakers in the Udabe Valley (Central Province, Papua New Guinea [PNG]). These new boundaries have arisen through the conjunction of epochal shifts implicating the PNG State, and local forms of ritual. On the one hand the...

Clear skies in the desert.
Laughlin, Nevada is a green, well-watered oasis in North America's driest desert. It is hemmed in by rock surrounding the valley like oven walls. To the west, the corrugated Newberry Mountains stand sere and remote. The Mohave people, whose Fort Mohave reservation is three miles south of Laughlin, revere...

Draining the life from the land. (mining and indigenous people).
"Every time we take a breath," says former Hopi Tribal Chairman Ferrell Secakuku, "another 50 gallons of water are gone." As Peabody Western Coal Co. pumps three million gallons of pure drinking water a day from beneath Black Mesa, Hopi and Dine (Navajo) residents are watching the...

Epidote and associated minerals from Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.
World-class epidote crystals were first found on Green Monster Mountain, Alaska, by hardy prospectors looking for copper in the early 1900s. The epidote specimens occur within a skarn complex on privately owned patented mining claims which cover the mountain's top, upper sides and ridges. The remote area has no...

Tourmaline and associated minerals from Mount Mica, Oxford County, Maine.
Mount Mica, North America's first gem tourmaline mine, is located about a mile east of the lovely village of Paris Hill in southwestern Maine. Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes found the first tourmaline crystals there in 1821. Substantial discoveries in the following years prompted Elijah's son, Augustus Choate Hamlin,...