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Inside the rare alliance to block mining on a Colorado mountain
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Summary
By Hannah Northey For more than four decades, residents of a remote Colorado town surrounded by a national forest rallied to stop miners from digging into Mount Emmons, a summit in the Rockies known as the "Red Lady" for its early morning hue. They've protested by skiing down - and up - the mountain
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