DejaVu
Mining booms and China tariffs, is this 1900 or 2018?
The current mining leases issued and those that are scheduled for impending Environmental Assessments became an intense subject of interest while documenting the Stone Cabin HMA located near Tonopah, NV. The learned realization from the Triple B round up of what mining stakes and markers “develop” into and how mining negatively affects our wild horse habitat fueled my concerns. Each observed mining stake marker in the belly of the Stone Cabin HMA became a stake to my heart. The environmental and wild life “budget’ cannot afford the loss of meager water resources, nor the wastelands that are created by the mining processes.
1900; noting that wild horses had no protections or considerations in that time era. Tonopah, NV; “The European-American community began circa 1900 with the discovery of silver-rich ore by prospector Jim Butler. In 1903, miners rioted against Chinese workers in Tonopah. This resulted in China enforcing a boycott in China of U.S. imported goods. By 1910, gold production was falling and by 1920, the town of Tonopah had less than half the population it had fifteen years earlier.”
22 WHEMAGAZINE MAY 2018
By Marie Milliman
“So, the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.” ~ Will Durant.