It's taken 40 years since the official shutdown of the former Anaconda Copper Mine near Yerington, Nev., but there will finally be shovels in the ground later this year.
Another tribe in Northern Nevada wants Nevada’s new governor to reverse a deal made under the previous administration to clean-up the Anaconda Copper Mine near Yerington.
Congressman Mark Amodei has introduced a bill to give more than 2,000 acres of federal land at a polluted mine site near Yerington to the oil company responsible for cleaning it up.
For more than a decade, Atlantic Richfield Company has been delivering bottled water to roughly 100 homes in a remote Native American reservation in western Nevada.
