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Viscount Mining drilling test holes for silver once again north of the towns

DeWeese Lake Road noticed that trucks were dropping large amounts of supplies on BLM land that bordered their property. A few days later, a drilling rig showed up, and a team of men commenced drilling into the dusty sagebrush prairie that defines the dry ground of that region. At first, a few people thought it was drilling for water and that in a few days, they would be gone. However, more and more piles of supplies appeared along County Road 240. Nobody seemed to know what the rig was doing or what they were drilling for. The process was messy, and so was the placement of supplies. Gallons of diesel splashed on the roadway, drill pipes were stacked in the drainage ditch, and tanks, crates,…