Last year’s federal Inflation Reduction Act is boosting interest in minerals contained in the Black Hills. That’s raising curiosity and concern for area residents who attended a Black Hills Forum and Press Club event on Friday.
Black Hills residents who live downstream from the Pactola Reservoir want to restrict mining activity in an expanded area. A U.S. Forest Service review could exempt thousands of acres in the Black Hills from mining.
The moment the U.S. Forest Service posted its July notice of a draft decision to permit gold prospecting at Jenny Gulch here in the Black Hills, tribes, water protectors and treaty rights defenders turned out in droves to ward off the project and others like it.
RAPID CITY, S.D. – The public voiced their concerns over a proposed exploratory drilling in the Jenney Gulch Area of Pactola. Rapid City’s Legal and Finance Committee heard from Larry
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