USEPA's 2004 Video on the Libby, Montana vermiculite mine disaster
News - W. R. Grace to pay $250 million to clean up Libby, Montana but what about the 400 and counting deaths that have occurred there.
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The story of the Seattle Post Intelligencer's an Uncivil Action
The story of the Seattle Post Intelligencer's an Uncivil Action
Listen to this audio interview with Andrew Sullivan the Seattle PI reporter that broke the tragedy of Libby, Montana to the nation in some of the best investigative journalism we've had in a long time. The death of at least 400 people in the small mining town, is attributed to the mining of vermiculite that was contaminated with tremolite asbestos.
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ATSDR's Map of Naturally Occurring Asbestos in the Western United States
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Go to the ATSDR's site to see the map of the United States and read more about naturally occurring asbestos.
See also the USDA Forest Service's Region 5 website on naturally occurring asbestos. Unfortunately while the ATSDR map shows NOAs on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and likely other national forests in Oregon Region 6 appears to be way behind Region 5 in alerting the public.
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RESOURCES FOR
COMMUNITIES, TRIBES AND ORGANIZATIONS
OPPOSING MINES
COMMUNITIES, TRIBES AND ORGANIZATIONS
OPPOSING MINES
They stand for clean water, healthy communities and corporate accountability and are working for solutions that protect both the Earth’s resources as well as our communities. Earthworks was formerly Mineral Policy Center, which was founded in 1988 by Phil Hocker, Mike McCloskey and former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall to help reform mining laws and practices.
MAC: Mine and Communities - Increasingly mining in the United States is being controlled by multinational corporations. That trend is coming to Oregon. An Australian owned company is developing a chromite mine at Coos Bay Oregon another Australian owned company has bought up 3,000 acres of uranium claims in eastern Oregon and is proposing to mine there. The MAC website exposes the social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining, particularly as they affect Indigenous and land-based peoples. Global in scope, the site was set up in 2001 by organisations and individuals from seven different countries who met in London to demand far greater accountability and transparency on the part of the minerals' industry.
All content of the site is monitored by an Editorial Board, currently comprising just over thirty women and men from fourteen countries, pledged to work on behalf of numerous mining-affected communities around the world.
REFERENCES USED ON THIS SITE
United States Geological Services 2008 Minerals Yearbook: Statistical Summary [Advance Release].
United States Geological Services 2007 Minerals Yearbook Oregon [Advance Release].
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Libby Public Health Emergency: Public health emergency at Libby Asbestos Superfund Site.
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund National Priorities List. Note - Five of EPA's forty National Priorities Superfund Sites are in Oregon. All are associated with mining or metal processing.
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, Libby Asbestos.
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, Molycorp, Inc. (Chevron Mining, Inc.) Questa, New Mexico.
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, Iron Mountain Mine, Shasta County.
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, Summitville Mine, Colorado.
Congressional Research Service Report for Congress: Mining on Federal Lands: Hardrock Minerals (Updated April 30, 2008) Marc Humphries, Analyst in Energy Policy Resources, Science, and Industry Division.
Congressional Research Service Issue Brief for Congress: Mining on Federal Lands (Updated February 28, 2005) Marc Humphries, Resources, Science and Industry Division.
Congressional Research Service Report for Congress: Hardrock Mining, The 1872 Mining Law, and the U. S. Economy," Bernard A. Gelb, Specialist in Industry Economics Division, July 1, 1994.
Congressional Research Service: National Monuments and the Antiquities Act, Carol Hardy Vincent, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy and Kristina Alexander, Legislative Attorney, July 20, 2010.
Statement of Salvatore Lazzari, "The Economics of Royalties in the Case of Hardrock Minerals on Public Domain Lands," before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, House Committee on Natural Resources, October 2, 2007.
Statement of John D. Leshy before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, Committee on Natural Resources, U. S. House of Representatives, February 26, 2009.
Statement of John D. Leshy at the Hearing on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands, Committee on Energy and Natural Resoures, U. S. Senate, September 27, 2007.
John D. Leshy, "Note: The Mining Law Continuum - Is there a contemporary prospect for reform?" The University of Louisville Bradeis Law Journal, Summer 2006.
John D. Leshy, "The Mining Law: a study in perpetual motion," 1987, Google Books.
High Country News: "Hardrock Mining Showdown," November 22, 2010.
High Country News: "You can't say no to mining," Ed Marston interviews John D. Leshy, December 3, 2001.
See also this website on Alaska Metal Mining.
