“Some places you just have to say no. That the risks are too high, that we can’t engineer and we can’t mitigate our way out of the mess that we’re about to (more…)
Borehole pH levels of 2 Deaths
Incredible news from Tanzania. Borehole pH levels of 2! Deaths of people and animals. The government will next month recruit environmental officers (more…)
UN Plans Aid After Burma Landslide
Sure, CleanRocks has no involvement with jade mining, but this story shows how tailings piles/dams can be extremely destructive in adverse weather (more…)
Waste lethal to trout
On a clear day on the Blackfoot River east of Missoula along Montana Highway 200, fish rise along the (more…)
Officials jailed for China mine disaster
A dozen officials have been sent to prison for their roles in a 2008 mining waste accident that killed 277 people, Chinese authorities said Saturday (more…)
Toxic Soil in China – The Invisible Pollutant
South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has one of the country’s biggest reserves of arsenic and lead, which are important resources for industry. Due to contamination by unrestricted discharges of mine tailings into the environment and other stresses, it has also been shown to contain soil polluted by a range of poisonous substances.
Soil pollution has [...]
More on the Flambeau Pollution Case
Anti-mining groups say they’re getting ready to sue the state of Wisconsin and a mining company over pollution near a former mine at Ladysmith.
The Flambeau copper and gold mine was open for four years during the 1990s, and stopped mining operations in 1997. The company says the process of reclaiming the land is complete. But [...]
Group claims mining company is polluting nearby stream and river
A group says it plans to sue the Flambeau Mining Company and the DNR unless what it claims are pollution issues are resolved in less than a month.
A lawyer representing the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council says monitoring data shows runoff from the Flambeau Mine is polluting a nearby stream and the Flambeau River. The Flambeau [...]
Draft report: Magna homes probably safe, but more data needed
Seems like there’s not much of an issue here regarding safety, but every time this happens there’s going to be a lot of money spent on assuring the public. Just another bit of evidence that storing waste in tailings dams is bad for all parties.
Green Meadows Estates, in Magna, probably wouldn’t be inundated by [...]
UPDATE ON KENNECOTT: Draft report on tailings pile released, “too optimistic”
A draft of a report on the Kennecott tailings pile says the company’s efforts to stabilize it are working, but that the goal to have the pile earthquake-proof by 2018 is probably too optimistic.
While the south side of the pile could meet minimum safety standards within seven years, the east side could take as long [...]