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Elko, Nevada (AP)
A federal appeals court has refused an emergency request to block construction of a huge gold mine in northeast Nevada that tribal leaders and others oppose on environmental and religious grounds.
A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the opponents’ request for an injunction pending an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling in Reno last month upholding the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s backing of Barrick Gold of North America’s Cortez Hills Project in Lander County.
A federal appeals court has refused an emergency request to block construction of a huge gold mine in northeast Nevada that tribal leaders and others oppose on environmental and religious grounds.
A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the opponents’ request for an injunction pending an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling in Reno last month upholding the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s backing of Barrick Gold of North America’s Cortez Hills Project in Lander County.
