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Nations biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico
2013-05-21 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Two foreign-owned mining companies, betting that the world will quickly forget the horrors of Fukushima, plan to sink a pair of shafts into the rugged New Mexico landscape near near Mt. Taylor and begin 0perating the nations biggest uranium mine. If approved by the U.S. Forest Service and state agencies, the mine would be the first of its kind to operate in the state in more than a decade, extracting as much as 28 million pounds of the radioactive heavy metal and desecrating as many as 70 acres...
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