CAT LITTER MINE
December 1st, 2001
BY KATE REWOPPONENTS of America's largest cat litter mining project in northern Nevada have persuaded the local planning commission to refuse the production company Oil-Dri a 'special use permit,' which gives it the right to process the mineral at the mine site.The company has the legal right to mine the mineral under the federal 1872 Mining Act, but its opponents are trying to block the company from processing the mineral on site. Local environment groups oppose the project in Hungry Valley for a variety of reasons, notably because of the fragile arid ecology of ...
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