Showdown in the desert: the small town fending off a new California gold rush

Showdown in the desert: the small town fending off a new California gold rush

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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 des

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