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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rapu-Rapu Minerals refutes allegations vs mining operations
The jury’s out on this one. Rapu-Rapu’s owners can probably do what they want as long as turn a profit, but I doubt they’ll ever have the backing of the other island residents after their insidious sea urchin ploy, even if they are complying with every regulation in the book. Waste production and storage has [...]
Bankrupt mine company ordered to clean up acid
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 [...]
Redcorp ordered to clean up B.C. mine
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 [...]
Rapu-Rapu mining resumes under Korean operators
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 [...]
Mining Law – Advocates say time is right to reform mining law
When Congress approved the rules governing the nation’s mining operations, Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House, George Armstrong Custer was fighting Native Americans and Congress was looking for ways to encourage greater settlement of the nation’s vast frontier.
A lot has changed since the General Mining Law was passed in 1872, but very little [...]