|  By Andrew Fried, SAFE President  | Feb. 26, 2016 As soon as the federal Bureau of Land Management announced it was canceling the CEMEX Soledad Canyon mining contracts last August, those of us who have been following the issue for over a decade noticed one potentially frightening loophole: The BLM never said it was ruling out a massive gravel mine in Soledad Canyon. It was just canceling CEMEX’s contract to develop it. Yes, perhaps we’re paranoid. For a decade…