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Gibbons Undermined

Published December 21, 2005 at 5:00 AM PST

Congressman Jim Gibbons feels that private mining companies should be able to buy some public lands. Although the provision allowing this was stripped from the current budget bill, Gibbons vows to keep prospecting for modernization... Benjamin Shaw reports from Capitol Hill.

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