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Nearly 20 years after Peabody Mining closed its Black Mesa Mine and five years after the ... organization made up of members of the Navajo community in Black Mesa, or Dziłíjiin, who have ...
He said while growing up in Kayenta, many of the community members worked at Peabody Coal Mine and Navajo Generating Station. Now those jobs have been lost, along with the revenue the Navajo ...
A colleague of Rick Hendy, head of behavioral health at the Utah Navajo Health System, died of suicide in mid-August. While the mine spill no doubt compounded stress in the community, Hendy said ...
The mines located within Cameron are part of the Western Abandoned Mine Region, which includes 111 mines in total. Cameron is ...
NENAHNEZAD — With its bell ringing, one of the new locomotives for the Navajo Mine exited a maintenance building today and was greeted by a crowd of people snapping photos on smartphones.
PHOENIX — Navajo Nation political leaders are planning to ask the federal government for subsidies to keep a mine and generating station in northern Arizona open. The current owners of the coal ...
"Everyone else around the Navajo Nation is moving forward," said Percy Deal, who lives near the coal mine at Big Mountain. "We just need to go forward and start rebuilding the community around the ...
FARMINGTON – The Navajo Transitional Energy Co. has entered into a 15-year contract with the Bisti Fuels Co. to operate the Navajo Mine. Bisti Fuels is a subsidiary of the North American ...
But now that a mine near the Grand Canyon ... has brought to our people,” says Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren. He spoke to several dozen community members, activists and others in early ...
Nearly 20 years after Peabody Mining closed its Black Mesa Mine ... the community or someone from the outside. Black Mesa United is a nonprofit organization made up of members of the Navajo ...