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02/13/2018 / By David Williams

The EPA has a new tool for dealing with and preventing mining disasters: robots

If you thought oil spills were bad, you should know the mine spills aren’t any better, as far as containment and cleanup are concerned. It has pretty much the same exact set of problems as oil spills, only they occur first on land, then only later spread to rivers and other bodies of water. While […]

01/08/2017 / By JD Heyes

The feds get something right: Heavy metal mining operation denied renewal permit over contamination concerns

There isn’t much that federal regulatory agencies and the bureaucrats who run them get right, but when they finally do make the correct decision on behalf of the people and the environment, they deserve the credit. The Associated Press reports that a pair of longstanding mineral rights leases that are crucial to a proposed large […]

12/13/2016 / By David Gutierrez

Montana: Several thousand snow geese die after landing in toxic, acidic water

(NaturalNews) Thousands of snow geese were burned and poisoned to death when they landed in a Montana mine tailings lake filled with acid and toxic metals. The 700-acre Berkeley Pit is a massive crevice left behind from nearly 30 years of copper mining. It filled up with water 900 feet deep, which then accumulated toxic […]

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