DALLAS (AP) -More than 30 people, many from as far away as New Mexico, gathered in North Dallas July 7 to demand that a uranium company cease further mining operations in New Mexico Navajo communities and parts of South Texas.

Dallas-based Uranium Resources Inc., which announced in May it was running out of money and might file bankruptcy, does not have the financial resources to clean up after mining projects, protesters said. This will cause more contamination of the environment, particularly in drinking water, and endanger the health of residents near the mines.

"The company is really a paper tiger," said Jaime Chavez, coordinator of Water Information Network in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the groups that demonstrated outside URI's headquarters.