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Letter: Selenium a cause for concern Poll Yes Dear editor, John Grisham’s best-selling book, Gray Mountain, paints a bleak and dark image of strip mining in the Appalachians of the southern U.S.  Is this what we can look forward to by allowing strip mining in our beautiful Rocky Mountains? The element selenium is used in the strip-mining process for coal. Strip mining of the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies will wreak havoc on the scenery, wildlife, ranching, farming and tourism from the f...