Under Obama, a gold mining firm was fine with a Mojave Desert monument. Under Trump, an about-face – Los Angeles Times

Under Obama, a gold mining firm was fine with a Mojave Desert monument. Under Trump, an about-face
Los Angeles Times
The 20,920-acre monument surrounded, but did not include, an open-pit gold mining operation at the southern end of the Castle Mountains. That allowed Newcastle Gold Ltd. of Canada to proceed with plans to excavate 10 million tons of ore from its …

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