NEW MEXICO
The Interior Department has awarded $3.8 million to the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department to reclaim abandoned mines near Raton, Socorro, Deming, Lordsburg and Hillsboro.
Other projects under development are near Madrid, Gallup, Grants and Silver City.
The money will be used to close mine openings and remove environmental and safety hazards at abandoned [...]
Galactic gold operation polluted Colorado watershed
An abandoned, Canadian-run gold mine on a Colorado mountaintop — hailed 25 years ago as a technological marvel and an economic boon for the state — is again poised to generate hundreds of jobs and “jump-start the local economy,” the U. S. government has announced.
But the planned $25-million U. S. [...]
More on the Redcorp case. Here we have some numbers – acid isn’t their only problem; there’s plenty of metal leakage as well.
Vancouver-based Redcorp to ask court for bankruptcy extension
Redcorp Ventures Ltd. and subsidiary Redfern Resources was planning to clean up the acid leaking out of the old 1950s Tulsequah Chief mine as it redeveloped [...]
Another bankrupt mine shirking from its environmental duties. If these people knew about CleanRocks, and saw the monetary potential of their waste, this wouldn’t occur very often at all.
Environment Canada has directed insolvent Redcorp Ventures Ltd. to immediately stop acid discharges at the Tulsequah Chief mine in northwestern British Columbia.
The company has been operating under [...]
Minerals North is an annual conference held in Canada, discussing the present state of the minerals industry. Here is an excerpt:
Tim Bekhuys of AMEC Earth and Environmental spoke on environmentally responsible closure planning.
Bekhuys said that closure planning is important because of the legacy left by old orphaned and abandoned mine sites.
“Closure planning is very important [...]
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TORONTO, ONTARIO- – Midlands Minerals Corporation (“Midlands” or the “Company”)(TSX VENTURE:MEX) is pleased to announce that in an overall strategy to generate cash flow, the Company has entered into a contract with Gold Recovery (Ghana) Limited (“Gold Recovery”) to begin recovering gold from loaded carbon fines on the Sian property in Ghana. Gold Recovery is [...]
AS mining operations resume in Rapu-Rapu, Albay, a fact-finding mission commissioned by various environment groups is now verifying reports of marine pollution and degradation in one of the country’s richest marine habitats and diving sites.
The International Solidarity Mission (ISM) hopes to uncover fresh reports related to the resumption of mining operations by a Korean-owned firm [...]
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