Wounding the West
Subtitle: Montana, Mining, and the Environment
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780803242814
Subjects: Mineralogy; Mining geology; Technology; Mining; Hazardous waste site remediation; Water; Environmental Pollution Engineering; Mining Engineering (Specific Aspects); Montana; Environmental Studies; Mineral industries; Science/Mathematics; Mike Horse Mine; Environmental Science; History / United States / General; Pollution; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Blackfoot River; Environmental aspects; Mike Horse Mine (Mont.); Mike Horse Mine Region
Description: "Wounding the West traces the role of hardrock mining and its relationship with the American West by following the environmental history of one Montana mine, the Mike Horse, from its 1898 discovery, through its heyday in the 1940s, subsequent abandonment, and eventual cleanup under the coercion of a state law that many would consider ill-suited for abandoned mines.

David Stiller argues that taxpayers should treat mining companies like the for-profit enterprises they are and insist that the hardrock mining industry pay a fair royalty for extracted minerals and then put this funding to work correcting the industry's worst historical abuses."--BOOK JACKET.