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That's a particularly aromatic red herring. The question is whether sulfide-ore mining is acceptable (1) in the heart of a national forest that contains 20% of the freshwater in the entire 190 million acre national forest system; (2) at the edge of the nation’s most popular Wilderness Area, where the massive surface destruction and water pollution that would result from such mining would inevitably and irreparably damage the adjoining Wilderness; and (3) where it is obvious to anyone who knows the history of the economics of the mining industry and mining towns—and to every pointy-headed economist who has spent even one minute thinking about it—that it would cause enormous permanent financial loss to the community and its current businesses, workers, and property owners.
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