Judge refuses to block digging at NV-OR mine
A Nevada tribe said the digging would disturb sacred burial grounds
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A Nevada tribe said the digging would disturb sacred burial grounds
Scott Sonner
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. A federal judge has denied environmentalists request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du said in an 11-page ruling late Friday in Reno that four conservation groups failed to prove the trenches planned across a total of one-quarter acre would cause irreparable harm to sage brush that serves as critical habitat for imperiled sage grouse.
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