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
Nevada gold mine closed due to mercury emissions
State environmental regulators have ordered a northeast Nevada gold mine to shut down because it failed to meet a deadline to install equipment to reduce mercury emissions.
The Jerritt Canyon Mine, about 50 miles north of Elko, was directed to cease operations by midnight May 30, the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection confirmed Monday .
The Environmental [...]
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 [...]