Members of the National Council of Canadians stopped in at Williams Lake and Fish Lake recently, where they met with the Xeni Gwet’in First Nation and talked about the impact of the proposed Prosperity Mine (more…)
Pebble Mine development plans
“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…)
EPA wants another look at Alaskan gold mine waste plan
The Environmental Protection Agency wants the Army Corps of Engineers to take another look at how to dispose of tailings at Coeur Alaska Inc.’s Kensington Gold mine north of Juneau (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…)
Snowshoe Mine reclamation project in stretch run
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,” [...]
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 [...]
More on the Coeur-d’Alene Alaskan Tailings Case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday for Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp by upholding a government permit that will allow the company’s Alaska gold mine to deposit rock waste into a lake on federal land.
In a closely watched environmental case, the justices overturned a U.S. appeals court ruling that had invalidated the permit for Coeur’s [...]
Toxic mine dumps removed from Lincoln Forest
The High Rolls Mining District was the scene of concentrated cleanup activity last fall. The old mining district is four miles east of Alamogordo within the Lincoln National Forest’s Sacramento Ranger District.
From 1900 to 1962, an estimated 13,300 total tons of ore were mined from the High Rolls Mining District, consisting of copper, gold, silver [...]
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 [...]