Acid mine runoff stains the streambed orange before it meets a lime doser at Maple Run, which sits in the Tygart Valley River watershed. A lime silo at Birds Creek. An unexpected resource.

Many are sources of acid mine runoff. If you attempted or even successfully pumped one out, you would have massive widespread subsidence. It’s like being on a giant water filled mattress.

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Witnesses bordering three Montana coal mines expressed concerns about what mine runoff would become under a new state law. Skip to main content Skip to main content. You are the owner of this ...

The Greenhills Operations open-pit coal mine is operated by Teck Resources Limited near Elkford, British Columbia. Waste rock from this and other mines in the area leaches selenium into runoff ...

The U.S. and tribal governments make progress against contaminated coal mine runoff from British Columbia, which has been polluting Montana and Idaho for years. A new agreement between the U.S ...

Waste coal and mine runoff that pollute areas in Greater Hazleton and elsewhere in Pennsylvania contain rare earth elements and materials that makers of smart phones, electric cars and other ...

NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY — A multi-million dollar project is underway to restore a major waterway that runs through a large stretch of Luzerne County. The creek is currently plagued with ...

Introduction Illegal mining, especially artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), has proliferated across many developing ...

It was summer 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it made national news. The metallic color came from the Gold King Mine, near the town of ...

EPA’s website points out that over 5.4 million gallons of acid mine runoff enters the Animas River daily. The way Churchwell tells it, water quality and numbers of fish had been declining in the ...