Mining company buys land for Western Shoshone
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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Environment
A gold mining company has purchased 3,629 acres in Nevada for the Western Shoshone Nation.
Great Basin Gold Ltd. said it wants to protect the site from development. The company paid $825,000 for the land and the mineral rights, which will be retired.
“It’s good news and kind of hard to believe,” Davis Gonzales, the chairman of the
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone, told The Elko Free Press in response.
The land is along Rock Creek Canyon, which is considered sacred to the Western Shoshone.
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Great Basin Gold buys land for Western Shoshone
(The Elko Free Press 6/16)
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