1.   The administration has said that mining would leave far too much waste rock and cyanide-treated ore on federal land at the mountain, near the Canadian border.

2.   The administration says that mining would leave far too much cyanide-treated waste rock on federal land at the mountain, near the Canadian border.

3.   Mining has left it badly scarred and rocky without vegetation or topsoil.

4.   Mining has left much of the island like a badly scarred rocky moonscape, stripped of vegetation and topsoil.