Today, there are over 270,000 active mining claims in #NV. From the 1930s to the 1980s, Shoshone and Paiute communities faced a barrage of open-pit mercury mining. Two projects in particular, #CorderoMine and #FortMcDermittMine, both adjacent to Shoshone and Paiute reservations, left behind a path of #destruction — and they still haven't been cleaned up. While the Cordero and Fort McDermitt Mines closed in the 1980s,

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