Gold mining project advances in California despite local opposition from Lone Pine residents and tribal leaders
A prospecting company’s search for gold has the town of Lone Pine and Indigenous leaders on edge, as the Trump administration greenlights new projects across the American west Lone Pine, population 1,882, lies along a stretch of California highway framed by the vast Inyo mountains and a sweeping…
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Appeared in: 2026-06-18 (#20)