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Endangered Persona

Published Thursday, July 01, 2004

The mere mention of endangered species can send a shiver up the back of the most fearless miner. Court battles have been waged, enforcement paper written and mining plans altered when species were tagged endangered. They are federally protected by the 30-year-old Endangered Species Act. The act has been the subject of several lawsuits and reform debates in Congress. But when Unimin Specialty Minerals discovered the near-extinct Indiana bats had taken a liking to one of its abandon mines in southern Illinois, the company didn't run for cover. In fact, it made the bats the centerpiece of ...

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