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24K pounds of nickel stolen in Indiana
Jan. 22, 2013
Northern Indiana police are looking for thieves who stole about 24,000 pounds of nickel from a business in Portage using a forklift and a truck.
The politics behind the world’s hard rock mining industry
Feb. 10, 2012
With “fracking” and coal mining disasters dominating the news cycles, it seems hard rock mining gets less attention from the media. For communities across the globe, however, hard rock mining is a loaded issue.