Feds approve mine drilling in Amargosa critical environmental area

Feds approve mine drilling in Amargosa critical environmental area

Lower Carson Slough, looking toward Eagle Mountain (Photo: the Amargosa Conservancy)Federal land managers approved a plan Friday to drill dozens of boreholes near a critical wetland habitat in Nevada that supports a trove of endangered and threatened species found nowhere else in the world. The mining exploration project proposed by St. Cloud Mining Company will drill 43 boreholes on public lands just west of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Re…