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LEADVILLE — Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and orange piles of abandoned ore rise 30 feet, peeking over the pines. A company in Leadville wants to truck 1.2 million tons of the waste to a mill on the southwestern edge of the high mountain city, use cyanide to extract gold and silver from the rocks, and then return the hills to a more natural state.

Accustomed to opening rather than closing stores, retail giant Walmart plans to shutter a Neighborhood Market in Aurora near the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on June 7. Walmart said it informed the 141 employees at its 10400 E Colfax Ave. location of the closure on Friday. On Monday, it filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. “All associates at this facility who do not otherwise secure employment with the company following a paid job search period will separate employment effective Aug.

Dear Amy: Several years back, my sister was in a pretty bad place. She was in her early 30s, still living at home, and didn’t have viable career plans. She desperately wanted to get married and have children, and none of this was working out for her, as she had very little self-confidence. My mother works for my uncle.

All in a day’s work, Nikola Jokic dodged questions about his aggression against Rudy Gobert, exhibited gentle embarrassment at being called a genius by his coworkers, then referred to himself as a freak of nature with a complete poker face. That was at the podium. On the court, he passed behind his back to perimeter shooters, behind his back to the baseline dunkers, over the top of five defenders for Hail Mary touchdowns.

Rudy Gobert’s effort was valiant. But Nikola Jokic was just too good. In the midst of Jokic’s scoring onslaught in the third quarter of Game 5, the Timberwolves big man was in the paint, trying his best to prevent the three-time MVP from moving around him. Jokic backed down Gobert, turned left, then right, then left again before he shot the ball over the four-time Defensive Player of the Year’s outstretched arm and into the heavens before dropping down through the net. The Nuggets took a seven-point lead with 6:40 left in the quarter, as Minnesota — the best defensive team in the NBA — saw its hopes for a Game 5 slowly fading away. “I just laugh.

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 12:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. EDT today (9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Leo into Virgo. Happy Birthday for Wednesday, May 15, 2024: You are charming, intelligent and young at heart. You’re also creative and solution-oriented. This year is the beginning of a new nine-year cycle.