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Posted inEnvironment & Conservation, Quick Reads

Judge tosses out water rights mining company was banking on for Copper Flat

by Laura Paskus January 8, 2018

At the end of last year, a state judge chipped away at a company’s plans to reopen a long-abandoned copper mine near Hillsboro. On Dec. 28, New Mexico Third Judicial District Court Judge James J. Wechsler found that most of the water rights claimed by the company are not valid. New Mexico Copper Corporation (NMCC) […]

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EPA kicks financial assurances for mines to the curb

by Laura Paskus December 4, 2017
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Questions remain as company seeks to re-open long-defunct copper mine

by Laura Paskus January 24, 2017

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