More enviro-crazies against gold mining:
In 1997, WVE launched the "Mine Your Jewelry Box, Not the Blackfoot" campaign. Donations of gold jewelry are being recycled to raise money for public education efforts to stop the mine. This will also give the public a chance to purchase used gold instead of new gold.
As of June 1998, the campaign has generated over 100 pieces of donated gold jewelry from concerned citizens all over Montana.
Last year, after musician Bonnie Raitt visited Helena and Missoula to give a benefit concert for the Blackfoot, she donated four gold rings to the "Mine Your Jewelry Box" campaign. Ken Saunders Jewelry in Helena, Montana, has been transformed Bonnie's rings into a beautiful Blackfoot River brooch. It will be auctioned off or raffled to raise money for the cause.
Donated gold will be used for two purposes: 1) some will be sold to provide funding for public education and litigation against the mine, 2) others will be melted down to provide a source for new pieces, as a way of recycling gold instead of building new mines.
Write-ups about the campaign have been featured in Trout Unlimited's national magazine, in Intermountain Woman Magazine, and On the Issues, a nationally-distributed quarterly women's magazine published on the East Coast.
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