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Did you know there are 48,529 abandoned coal mines in the United States which are known to pose a threat to the public and/or the environment? This number comes from the most comprehensive federal database that we know of – the enhanced Abandoned Mine Lands Inventory System (eAMLIS) maintained by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM). Of […]
Catastrophic mine spills have been in the news frequently enough that we are devoting a few articles to cover some of the problems plaguing existing mines and posing serious concerns for new and proposed mines like Pebble in Alaska, Red Chris in British Columbia, and NorthMet in Minnesota. In this post we’re only covering impoundment failures […]
On August 5, more than 3,000,000 gallons of acidic, heavy-metal-laden mine waste from the Gold King Mine polluted the Animas River in southwestern Colorado. Ironically, the accident occurred while contractors for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were trying to plug a smaller leak from the inactive mine that was already polluting the river. This was […]