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How crazy can it get: Tiffany's = a premier diamond seller ...do those sparklies just drop from heaven into their retail cases?

Judge halts Revett's Rock Creek silver project
By: Dorothy Kosich
31-MAR-05

RENO, NV-- UPDATED:
A Montana federal district judge has voided U.S. Fish and Wildlife approval
of the Rock Creek underground silver project located near the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness area in northwestern Montana.

Federal District Judge Donald Malloy found that the Fish and Wildlife
Service failed to consider properly the possible harm of the Rock Creek
silver mining project to grizzly bears and bull trout in the area. The
Cabinet Mountains covers 93,000 acres and is populated by wildlife
including bears, trout, wolverines, lynxes and mountain goats.

The mine was the subject of a full-page advertisement published last
year in the Washington Post by Michael Kowalski, President and CEO of
Tiffany & Co.
In the ad, Kowalski urged the federal government to reject
the mine.

In a news release issued Wednesday, Earthjustice proclaimed the decision
"a major victory for grizzly bears, bull trout and the people of
northwest Montana." Earthjustice had filed a lawsuit with the federal
court on behalf of the Rock Creek Alliance, Cabinet Resource Group,
Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, Idaho
Council of Trout Unlimited, Pacific Rivers Council, Earthworks/Mineral
Policy Center and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies.

Earthjustice's attorneys argued that the proposed mining operation would
have resulted in the loss of 7,000 acres of habitat "that would be
devastating to the 15 or fewer grizzly bears that survive in the Cabinet
Mountains. In the ruling, the court noted evidence that the area's tiny
grizzly bear population appears to be declining and concluded, `given
the clear possibility that bears are at least not increasing,
contemplating the loss of additional bears related to the mine is not
rational.' "

"I think this ruling is an important step in recognizing the uniqueness
of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness," said Peter Lupsha of Trout Creek,
Montana. "We know there are bull trout in Rock Creek and grizzly bears
in Rock Creek Meadows, but the Fish and Wildlife Service has ignored
this and glossed our our concerns."

In a written statement issued to Mineweb Thursday, Tiffany CEO Kowalski
said, “We continue to believe that the many issues surrounding the Rock
Creek Mine speak forcefully to both the need for reform of the General
Mining Law of 1872 and the importance of developing a broad, national
consensus among mining companies, their customers, communities, and
regulators regarding responsible mining practices.” In an interview with
Mineweb last November, Kowalski said that "we ran the ad because we
wanted to rekindle the national debate over the need for the reform of
the General Mining Law of 1872. ...Had we tried to do that quietly
behind the scenes and behind closed doors, I would argue that it simply
would not have happened."

Kowalski (said)... "We felt the issues surrounding Rock Creek gave
everyone an opportunity to fully debate [these Mining Law] issues in
very real world terms." He insisted that Tiffany was not anti-mining,
adding the "fact that we oppose certain mines should not be construed
that we are anti-mining."


However, a Royal Gold spokesman recently told Mineweb that the long and
narrow property can, in no way, have a major impact on the Cabinet
Mountains Wilderness. Royal Gold has invested in Revett Silver's
project. The former Asarco property was leased to Revett Silver after
environmentalists opposed the Rock Creek project since the 1980s. The
project's opponents have consistently argued that the mine could harm
the habitats of several endangered species.

Nevertheless, the Royal Gold spokesman said the proposed Rock Creek mine
enjoys strong support in the nearby local communities such as Troy and
Libby. Unemployment in those areas has ranged between 11% to 13%. Rock
Creek would employ 350 persons. Revett would also pay $1.5 million in
taxes, which would be used to fund schools and other developments...
russau
just what we need! a dumb green judge that dont have any common sense!
Coalbunny
Tiffany's ain't green. They're low life scum. They just don't like competition, so they side with anyone to make sure their competition goes down.
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