By Scott Orr | The Daily Courier
The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors, in its Monday, June 1, meeting, faced a standing-room-only crowd, and many of those present were there to ask the board to request that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) require the owners of a proposed mine near Skull Valley to do an environmental analysis before work begins.
Under federal law, the Kirkland Mining Company’s work site, on BLM land between Kirkland and Skull Valley near Iron Springs Road, is small enough, under five acres or 50,000 tons, that the company would not normally have to do an environmental study.
