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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1973 Aug 8 DOC NMA078 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Iron Ore Company vs. the Changing Times U.S. Court Will Decide on Right to Pollute cr JANE E. BRODY Special to The New York Times NewYork Times Currentfile Aug 8 1973 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Pg Iron Ore Company vs. the Changing Times ' U.S. Court Will Decide on Right to Pollute } ct By JANE E. BRODY Special to The Kew York Times : SILVER BAY Minn Aug 71 lic hearings Minnesota's envi ronmental watchdogs gave the Reserve Mining Company per- i . m land disposal is economically plant here a visitor unfeana d hs as i prob posl ed e in- was shown how the rock is first * stead that the tailings crushed into pebbles and then clumped with chemicals mixed with water and ground rled some distance offshore and dumped into an underwater valley in the lake of tons of rocky waste each day Now a century later new pollution officials one want to keep this take are risk until 30 trying to end the The NewuYpork TimesAus 1923 condoned practices action not show cancer & northwest tu an obvioushaul railroad 20 to years Silver Bay MinneapolSistateswhat after the first exposure Re regarded pollution the the had requested produce What water requested of taconite Taconite contains 20 two build the per cent to 30 per cent iron . scattered the rock in microscopic Reserve cre natural depoalts say thesuburban Baniyty of 3,273 that Reserve ated and almost solely the residents are waiting on the cre were formed by leaching of the rock leaving pockets of iron behind for extracting iron from taco- half nite man condenses into a few pebbles question of mhoarremless it will be proven nature thmeillions that took years that's come tanned remarked achieve Minnesota else village's tanned 354million Silver line . Se os ye , . The Reserve Mining perticles Company's mille taconite on the shore of Lake Superior at Silver Bay Minn ironithe perticles he afticle of tory at have said form afticle count the water and the the case it is densitcyurrent heavier contention that the tailings en Sinai effect under properly been identifyashesalrleesgiiadnecnets to the Reserve of footwhich has risen from crable algae hastening accumulated of ; of tall- death the lake Dr. Irving Selikoff's labora Mount , proely identifyplace that aid the Government in Mining present clear little Company Through tthe he k casearchers asbestos explain company town casearchers explain transmission negative problem beam of a firsfirst t negative that without operating connotations without that ac ompany . the a that usually accompany appears of needed accurately Characteristic amosite scanning Government identify microscompiecroscope Environmental Protection identify neded elec agency Environmental dubbed fron microscope sends point an . enemy of the people here mineral Con In Henrik Ibsen's play of that title written nearly a century a physician discovers century the local the baths source who contaminated town's livelihood water come contain killingcontaminated be to refreshed in . y bealthful spa As thanks for his revelations formed the physician is as enemwhyo thepeople his Federal . Scheuring added years ago state and week the mabestos report came out Bay officials decided that Silver sold only me merchants bottled water- that was to a lady who used it in her While residents of Silver the Great While Bay and other communitcointeinsue vironmental Protection Agency to drink Lake Superior water reportedly have million spent several in an effort to in defiance and some in contendscommunities contends fibers The Mayor Botohemetropolitan tailingsdif erentadoptedadopted provenwhether be statenot want the dumping saidThema pointed dumping poli showed perrecent Bay dumpingquestioned inst farther from Louis County Court House in downtowwatnerDuluthwphlaecreeasbes- The judge in the case Miles~fl Lord has to hear argu- may dangerous amounts Regardless of the outcome fact Duluth dump since procedureprocedure is not pert of Reserve's taconittaeconite tand The thceompanycurrent Bay firsStilveprlace dumping other and avalanche kazard town under an of Asbestos when is is inhaled crushed rock as a bomb effect does Reserve has argued that on Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission