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 the sandy, finely ground waste tailings from the nearby zinc mine.
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