A group of town residents will be looking for answers regarding the proposed $23 million cleanup at the former (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,” [...]
Waste lethal to trout
On a clear day on the Blackfoot River east of Missoula along Montana Highway 200, fish rise along the (more…)
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 [...]
Compost in mine pollution fight
Cwm Rheidol Mine closed before World War I
A filter made from compost, woodchip and whelk shells is to be used to stop polluted water from an old zinc works from entering a mid Wales river.
Water from Cwm Rheidol Mine near Aberystwyth is currently flowing into the nearby River Rheidol.
But scientists at Newcastle University [...]