Babbitt Issues Parting Shots; New Rules Aimed at Curbing Hardrock Mining in the West The Washington Post | January 15, 2001| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

There was gold in them thar hills, but it's gone now. So are a lot of the hills. And so is the bankrupt company that tore them down and drenched them in cyanide. All that's left today is a scarred landscape and an equally ugly cleanup bill.

The Zortman-Landusky mine ushered in the modern era of mineral exploration when it opened here in the Little Rocky Mountains in 1979, using a newfangled cyanide-based process to extract about a pickup truck full of gold from about 200 million tons of rock. The hardrock mining industry has expanded tenfold since then, leaching billions of dollars worth of ...

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