"Rodeo Creek Gold Inc. and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Elko District have reached a $1.5 million settlement that creates a special fund focused on the Tosawihi Quarries.
"Rodeo Creek Gold, a subsidiary of Great Basin Gold Ltd., will contribute the money over a 10-year period for the fund designated for the protection and preservation of the Tosawihi Quarry Archaeological District.
"Officials said it may be a record-setting agreement for the Elko BLM district and a precedent-setting agreement for the BLM and a mining company.
" "It's probably the first archaeological settlement of this size in the Elko district," said Deb McFarlane, assistant field manager for nonrenewable resources for the Tuscarora Field Office that is part of the Elko district."
Read more from an article on the same subject, but from an industry news magazine website, R&D Magazine.
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