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An elderly woman next to me is happy to be here, although she and her husband are returning to Wisconsin soon. They have finally had enough of the dust and noise from the mining trucks and heavy equipment. They held out for years, she says, but gave up in the end. She seems embarrassed as she confides that they recently sold their 10-acre property to Hudbay and Rosemont. “Kathy is still holding out up there in her house,” she says. “She’s the last one, God bless her.” I imagine Kathy as a stubborn, steely-eyed woman with long silver hair, a champion for the cause, doomed in her little ranch house as the tailings piles threaten to swallow her whole. She will not sell out. Continue reading →