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Nearly 5.5m tons of high quality uranium ore is thought to lie under Jahodná, just 15km from Slovakia’s second biggest city, Košice. The government has already signed a provisional deal on extraction with a Canadian mining company, which performed exploratory drilling.
The daily notes that opponents of mining in Košice, a popular holiday resort, say “it is a dirty trick against the local administration and Košice’s inhabitants who have already expressed their unhappiness with extraction.”
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