The Union Front Page Features CLAIM-GV Photo

The Union’s front-page today features an article, “Who’s Blowing Smoke?”, about CLAIM-GV’s photographic rendering of the impact of the Idaho-Maryland Mine — should it re-open — on the Grass Valley skyline. The article includes — finally for The Union! — a discussion of Dunn Capital Partners’ recent press release containing severe criticisms of the environmental [...]

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Video: Tour of the Sixteen to One Mine

The first fifteen minutes or so of this fascinating video, produced by jmdigitalstudio.com, is a tour of the Sixteen to One Mine.

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The California Green Gold Rush

If you’d like a brief — maybe even a lasting — respite from your recession woes, read the ultimate California booster article, the cover story of Time Magazine’s November 2nd edition, “Why California Is Still America’s Future.” Here’s how it begins: California, you may have heard, is an apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment, [...]

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Grass Valley Skyline if Idaho-Maryland Re-Opens

The following is an accurate photographic projection, a photograph edited to reflect the likely appearance of the Grass Valley skyline if the Idaho-Maryland Mine were to reopen and go into full operation. It was done by researchers for the local group, “Citizens Looking at the Impact of Mining” (CLAIM-GV), in consultation with officials in Grass [...]

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In the War of Words with Emgold, Dunn Gets the Environmental Impacts Right

by Jane Pelton In a recent press release, the President and CEO of Emgold Mining Corporation, David Watkinson, complained that an earlier press release issued by Dunn Capital Partners explaining Dunn’s decision to end funding talks with Emgold contained a “concoction of falsehoods”. However, all of Dunn’s assertions regarding the environmental impacts are true: IMM’s impact to [...]

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