61.   Opponents of hard-rock mining point to an Environmental Protection Agency finding that the mining industry produces more toxic waste than any other.

62.   Opponents said the amendment is yet another assault on the mining industry and that the Interior Department does not have the jurisdiction to make such laws.

63.   Proponents of the Senate measure say Interior Department lawyers enforcing the limit threaten the mining industry.

64.   Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev., who sat with both Johnston and Bumpers on the conference committee, has ardently supported the mining industry.

65.   Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev., and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., win one for the mining industry.

66.   Shortly afterward, Sankoh was again in armed opposition and the plan to redevelop a legitimate diamond mining industry was scuttled.

67.   Since its inception, the fund has focused almost exclusively on South African companies that have long dominated the gold exploration and mining industries.

68.   Someone gave Kathy Karpan, director of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, bad advice about accepting a job interview with a mining industry advocacy association.

69.   Subsidies to the mining industry?

70.   Supporters of tabling the amendment said increasing site acreage was crucial to the future of the mining industry.