Many happy couples hold their most valuable assets jointly. (The exception is retirement accounts, which must be individually owned.) What's mine is yours, right?

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Since 2007 Galantas Gold Corporation, a Canadian firm, has been working what is currently Britain's only gold-producing mine at Omagh, in Northern Ireland, shipping the ore to Canada and running a small gold-jewellery operation.

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What's worse, they are also being reckless with mine.

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Molycorp, an American firm which in various guises dates back to the early 1950s, intends to restart what was once the world's largest source of rare earths, a mine in California closed in 2002 over environmental concerns and the then unjustifiable cost of correcting them.

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Between what they had packed with their lunches and what was stored in the mine, the men had about a week's worth of water, Murray said.

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The legislation would remove what had been seen as a barrier for drillers wanting to use coal mine water: the state's Clean Streams Law.

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