Information Project Supports Indigenous Mining Activists www.datacenter.org/programs/prjunderground-sp02.htm

Help Put the "Class" Back In Class Rings! Students at universities and high schools in the United States purchased some 1.67 million class rings in 2003 -- the production of which generated more than 9 million tons of mine waste!

The Rahall-Shays-Inslee Mining Reform Bill   excerpt: The antiquated General Mining Law of 1872 is one of the last remaining American dinosaurs of the old public resource giveaways . . . allows private companies to take valuable minerals from public lands without paying any royalties, and to purchase public land at the 1872 price of less than $5.00 an acre. Because the Mining Law contains no environmental provisions, hardrock mining wreaks havoc on ecosystems....            To address these issues and others, Representatives Nick Rahall (D-WV), Chris Shays (R-CT), and Jay Inslee (D-WA) have introduced a new mining law reform bill, the Mineral Exploration and Development Act of 2003 . . . cont ( .pdf format ) Extension of Remarks U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall II May 15, 2003 Mining Law Reform Legislation . . . cont ( .pdf format ) 35KB Reform Bill Text . . . cont ( .pdf format ) 232KB

June 2003    ACTION ALERT Threat of Western Shoshone Distribution Bill Looms Large Two more Orders to Remove were served by federal agents over the last week this time on Western Shoshone in the Southfork area, including Chief Raymond Yowell of the Western Shoshone National Council. Federal livestock seizure could occur ...  cont... For ongoing information visit: www.wsdp.org

Oct. 25, 2001, letter to Congress from Sec.of Interior, Gale Norton, on revised regulations governing hardrock mining on Public lands. in (.pdf format)

Mining Articles: part 1

2003

• Navajo coalition opposed to uranium mining , June 26
• "Colorado Open-Pit Cyanide Mining Ban" , June 5
• Nine Mile Canyon, UT: Drilling for gas seen as threat to rock art , June 2
• Wisconsin: Crandon mine permit process put on hold , June
• Federal report calls for new regulation of mountaintop mining , June

JAN. -- May 2003:

• Navajo Miners Battle a Deadly Legacy of Yellow Dust, May
  Congratulations to the Quechan Nation!
• Gov. Davis signs legislation to protect Quechan sacred site , Apr.
• Coal bed methane project worries ranchers, irrigators , Apr.
• Helena- Bill seeks re-vote on cyanide leach mining, March
• Surrounded by a massive industrial buildup, the Northern Cheyenne tribe defends its homeland , Jan.

Nov. 2001-Jan. 2003:
• A mine falls, and a tribe may get the shaft , Jan. 2003
• Tribes gain power through federal environmental laws , Jan. 2003
  
• CRANDON MINE PROJECT DROPPED , Sept. 2002
• NM, Zuni Salt Lake: Fence Lake Mine Gains Support, Nov. 2001
• Federal appeals court rejected the state of Wisconsin's challenge to the Sokaogon Ojibwe Tribe's authority over water within the Mole Lake Reservation.
• Feds Rustle Shoshone Livestock Again Western Shoshone Defense Project. Sept. 2002

Aug. - Oct. 2001
• Bush White House Reverses Clinton Decision on Mining
• White House backs Mt. Rushmore Coal Mining Plans
• Colombia: U'wa Tribe - update

May - Aug. 2001
• Tribe, environmentalists fear opening of uranium mine near Grand Canyon
• Healing Our World: Killing Tomorrow for a Few Megawatts Today by Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.
• Bill to Ban Use of Cyanide in Mining Passed
  by Wisconsin Senate Environmental Resources Committee , May 31, 2001
• Senate Bill 160 to Ban Use of Cyanide In Mining Applauded by Sportfishers, Environmentalists, and Tribes
• Hopi say evictions at Big Mountain 'imminent' Religious Freedom Violated! Land Stolen Through Unfair Trade Agreements! Is This Not An Example Of Globalization?

Jan. - Apr. 2001.
• Nevada still nation's worst toxic polluter, EPA says
• Drilling Studied in Off-Limits Areas of Rockies
• Mining Indigenous Lands: Can Impacts and Benefits be Reconciled? - Cultural Survival Quarterly's Spring 2001 
• THE AMERICAS: Environmentalists feel cheated by Bush's campaign reversals, Mar. 24, 2001
• President Offers Plan to Promote Oil Exploration

Feb. - Nov. 2000
• U.S. Backs Tribe, Rejects Gold Mine Proposal
• Contaimination in Native Lands Uranium To Be Moved from Colo. R.
• Small Claims, Big Problems - EPA Mining exemptions
• Uranium Miners, Families Bring Tales of Pain to Washington
• Nevada's Mines Emit High Levels of Mercury into Air, Figures Show
• Richardson Drives Health Shift - The education of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson began at the knee of uranium widows...
• Glamis Gold to Imperialize Sacred Land of the Quechan

  The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is becoming part of REDOIL
( Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands )
the more recent articles relating to : gas, oil and ANWR can be found at REDOIL,
others can be found in the growing archives through the REDOIL ARCHIVES