Canadian company moves to mine on lands cut from monument
June 22, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Canadian company's plans to mine for copper and cobalt on Utah lands that were cut from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by President Donald Trump are angering conservation groups that are suing to keep the lands under monument protection.
Conservation and paleontology groups called attention this week to plans announced earlier this month by Glacier Lake Resources Inc. The company said in a news release it would begin surface exploration this summer and that drilling will be permitted shortly.
But officials from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management an...
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