Reclamation resumed on June 15 for the third and final construction season. The $2.4 million project is expected to wrap up by November.
“People will be able to enjoy the natural beauty of the area without the yellow and orange tailings, laden with heavy metals in Snowshoe Creek, and without the danger posed by mine openings,” [...]
Snowshoe Mine reclamation project in stretch run
Waste lethal to trout
On a clear day on the Blackfoot River east of Missoula along Montana Highway 200, fish rise along the (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 [...]
Forest Service Cleaning Up Abandoned Mine
Excavation Removes Arsenic, Lead Tailings
Forest Service workers are wrapping up a clean-up effort in Black Bob Canyon, removing thousands of pounds of potentially toxic earth.
More than 200 cubic yards of arsenic and lead tailings are being removed from the site, to prevent contamination of the nearby water supply and the Wind Wolves Preserve, according to [...]
Superfund listing is weighed for two mines
Two abandoned Alaska mines, operated when there were few, if any, environmental laws, might become national cleanup priorities.
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering listing the former mines — Red Devil mercury mine in Southwest and Salt Chuck gold, silver and copper mine in Southeast — as Superfund sites, a state official said.
They would be the [...]
Contamination from landfill site, Kam Kotia tailings among threats
There are roughly 1,300 threats to the drinking water in the Mattagami Region.
An R. J. Burnside representative, Dwight Smikle, said the Ministry of the Environment has provided guidance to determine how significant the threats are and what the risk is.
He spoke to the Mattagami Region Source Protection Committee last night at the Royal Canadian Legion [...]