The land surrounding the mine’s nearly 400-acre property has increasingly grown inhabited by the feds, who say they ultimately want to utilize the property “because the size and remoteness of the area enables military test and training activities that cannot be completed in other national training areas,” according to Col. Thomas Dempsey.
A letter from the Sheahan’s grandparents to the US attorney general in 1959 indicates government nuclear testing around the area contributed to the decline of their ore mining industry, reports the AP.
“Nuclear tests then began in 1951, their mine mill mysteriously exploded in 1954 and they ran out of money to seek reparations from the government in 1959,” writes the AP’s Ken Ritter.
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