Word: gold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouted the crowd, many dressed in the movement's green, black and gold colors...
...around him and take pictures of it -- pictures of living history, which means, especially, pictures of human behavior. If he doesn't get a thrill out of that job, if he doesn't wake every morning with excitement and go out with his cameras hanging on him like a gold prospector with his rock hammer in hand, % he's no good. Over the years some photojournalists have said to me, "if they didn't pay me for doing this, I'd do it for them for nothing." I too have felt that way since, more than a half-century...
...gold mining in Nevada were confined to the Carlin Trend, environmentalists like Glenn Miller, a biochemist at the University of Nevada- Reno, would not be so concerned. But Carlin is not the only area in Nevada where mining companies are digging up the land. Hundreds of geologists continue to roam the state, creating new networks of rutted roads. Exploration rigs continue to punch holes into the earth a thousand feet deep. In the mining boom towns along Interstate 80, schools are overflowing, crime has increased and business is good. "Ultimately," predicts Miller, "there could be one continuous hole...
...many cases, the gold mines are located in remote, desolate regions. But some impinge on popular campsites, and one, ominous as a shark with wide-open jaws, is poised right on the edge of the tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that...
...from Tuscarora, rancher Robin Van Norman drives a visitor into a verdant canyon sited down by U.S. Forest Service land in the Independence Mountains. Until gold was discovered, the Van Normans owned the rights to graze their cattle there. Now, on the very fence they built to control their herd, the Freeport-McMoRan Gold Co. has posted a big KEEP OUT sign. Waste rock from the mining operation has begun pushing toward the canyon like a moraine advancing at the prow of a glacier...