Challenging China, Zinc Production Returns to US, Revives New York Mining Town
FOWLER, N.Y.—A fierce wind is slinging sleet and forcing 30-foot hemlocks to genuflect in its gusts this gray, cold November morning, but Joel Rheault is enjoying a warm and fuzzy moment atop a dynamited blast bowl. Below, a bulldozer is churning through newly dredged soil and shoving boulders aside in an open pit burrowed into