BLM Approves Mine Project in Northeast Nevada

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A miner who spent two weeks on life support after falling off equipment at a Nevada mine has died.

    

The Elko Daily Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2d9PQLC ) 60-year-old Richard Duff fell off a piece of heavy equipment on Sept. 15 and hit his head, neck and shoulders.

    

The national Mine Safety and Health Administration says Duff was unconscious and taken to a local hospital. The agency says he was taken off life support on Monday.

    

He was a worker at Premier Magnesia Mine near Gabbs, an open pit mine about 50 miles southeast of Reno.

    

Messages left with the company seeking a comment on the accident were not immediately returned.

    

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Information from: Elko Daily Free Press, http://www.elkodaily.com

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