Amax Mining Company
... This small town is of a great interest to Amax Mining Company because Mr. ... Amax, a successful mining company, would like to come in and develop a $1 billion mine to process moybdenum from Mr. ... There are bumper stickers everywhere protesting Amax. ... The company is involved in various legal activities costing over 3 million dollar in effort to clear the way for negotiating the development. Such expenditure has gone toward cleaning up areas polluted by previous owners; advertisement campaigns; the posting of unarmed security guards; participation in the Colorado Review Process to demonstrate it’s interest in the state’s balance growth of jobs, housing, transportation and sewerage; automating the county’s planning system; hiring a spokesperson to represent Amax’s; and a research into how the other mining towns had adapted.