2008-11-24 Shoshone Indians Sue to Stop Barrick's Nevada Gold Mine. Environment News, USA.

The U.S. Department of Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management, has approved one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States on Mount Tenabo.

The area is well-known for its spiritual and cultural importance to the Western Shoshone. Different tribal and public interest parties filed a complaint in federal court to halt the desecration.

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