Gold or Rare Earth Mine On ShoShone reservation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/us/range-war-in-nevada-pits-us-against-2-shoshone-sisters.html
  
  Billions of dollars in gold. Government stealing from another Native American Tribe.
  It seems to me to be a little fishy. Pulverizing rocks to extract gold particles? Sounds more like a rare earth mine.
 

{Note: While they have everybody thinking about gold, I think it's actually rare earth minerals that they are digging into on the Shoshone reservation. That way, they can dump all of the contamination on you without anyone knowing it's rare earth contamination. Strip mining.}