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A legislative committee tasked with evaluating a slate of mining-related bills made no recommendation on which one(s) to advance after a work session on last week, with members insisting they needed more time to weigh the proposals. The committee...

If a developer can prove a mining operation wouldn't pollute the environment, it would be exempted from some regulations.

Chemical processing of a material would still be regulated under the mining act, which has strict standards for treating mine waste, known as tailings.