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Tribes raising concerns

The project, which would be about 15 miles northwest of Edgemont, would employ scores of in-situ mines — underground sites where the company would inject oxygenated water into the ground to absorb uranium. The water would then be pumped back to the surface, where uranium would be extracted and processed.

Mining opponents have a host of objections to the mine, but two main ones that will be heard in August deal with old Indian burial grounds and whether water polluted during the mining could spread through the region’s aquifers……..

Tribes raising concerns

The project, which would be about 15 miles northwest of Edgemont, would employ scores of in-situ mines — underground sites where the company would inject oxygenated water into the ground to absorb uranium. The water would then be pumped back to the surface, where uranium would be extracted and processed.

Mining opponents have a host of objections to the mine, but two main ones that will be heard in August deal with old Indian burial grounds and whether water polluted during the mining could spread through the region’s aquifers…….Aquifer questions

Parsons, the tribal attorney, said the project site also contains thousands of improperly closed boreholes from uranium exploration in the 1970s. He says that means the aquifers may not have “confined” the heavy metals activated by the mining so they do not stay within in a specific area……..http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/uranium-foes-regroup-strategy-is-to-attack-mine-at-august/article_55a915f5-893b-5041-abb3-ccf70d1b012d.html