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Buckhorn Mountain mine will go forward after years-long fight

April 16, 2008

Boy, I never thought I'd see the day when enviros in the Okanogan Highlands would actually agree to allow a gold mine at Buckhorn Mountain. But it's happened.

Today the Okanogan Highlands Alliance, the Washington Environmental Council and the Center for Environmental Law and Policy acquiesced and dropped their fight against the underground mine proposed by Crown Resources and Kinross Gold.

Read the complete article at the Seattle P-I