Polluted Nevada Mine Worries Residents

[NVMojo]

YERINGTON, Nev. - Peggy Pauly remembers when she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer four years ago.

"My doctor asked if I'd ever been exposed to radiation and I said, `No,'" she said.

Now, she isn't so sure.

Up until a few weeks ago, Pauly never worried much about the abandoned copper mine next to her family's home in the high desert's irrigated oasis of the Mason Valley, 55 miles southeast of Reno.

"The north end of the mine is my backyard, basically. We built our home here because this was the land we could afford," said Pauly, 55, the wife of a Baptist pastor and mother of daughters ages 8 and 9.

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