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EDITORIAL: Wisconsin Tribes' Mines Purchase to Benefit Environment.

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 26--The news is a couple of weeks old but we still catch up with awe at the happenings in Crandon, Wis., where two tribes long engaged in environmental struggles against mining concerns have now resolved the issue by buying out the mines.

It cost the Sokaogon Mole Lake Chippewa and the Forest County Potawatomi $16.5 million, but the tribes have now put to rest fears that mineral contamination from the proposed zinc and copper mine - particularly sulfuric acid and the copper - w

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