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The Montana Mountains loom over Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, July 14, 2021. A federal judge on Friday, July 23, has denied environmentalists' request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)
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Joe Biden's mining boost may not have quick payoff

By The Associated PressMay 2, 2022
One of many abandoned mine shafts, center left, along the Cherum Peak Trail in the Cerbat Mountains, exposed now after a covering structure collapsed, Monday, Sept. 3, 2007, in Chloride, Ariz. Not far away two sisters fell into a 125-foot-deep abandoned mine shaft while driving their all-terrain vehicle late Saturday. Rikki Howard, 13, died in the accident while her sister Casie Hicks, 10, is in the hospital being treated for her injuries. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Arizona poised to buckle down on abandoned mines

By The Associated PressMar 29, 2022