Western Shoshone Prevail at Ninth Circuit Court on mining Sacred Land

Western Shoshone Prevail at Ninth Circuit Court on mining Sacred Land

In a major ruling this week, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked construction of the the largest open pit gold mine in the United States, BarrickGold's Cortez Hills gold mine. Reversing a January 2009 ruling by the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit concluded that enjoining the mine was in the public interest [...]

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