Cougar Gold, a gold mining exploration company with claims in the Bodie Hills Wilderness Study Area, said yesterday that they won't continue their exploratory drilling until the "regulatory purgatory" of the Wilderness Study Area designation is removed from the hills. Despite their request for support for this from the Mono County Board of Supervisors, who, regardless, cannot change the designation (but could support a bid by Congress to do so) the supervisors gave the mining company executives who attended the meeting no clear answer[./i]
http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/cougar-gold-says-wont-mine-unless-wilderness-protection-removed-county-supervisors-divided
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Cougar Gold says won't mine unless wilderness protection removed
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