After big plans to revive the famed Revenue Mine, the current owners Ouray Silver Mines shut down and are in receivership after defaulting on $28 million loan
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Federal government, Colorado and mining company reach $90 million settlement in Gold King mine spill
By James Anderson, The Associated Press Colorado, the U.S. government and a gold mining company have agreed to resolve a longstanding dispute over who’s responsible for continuing cleanup at a Superfund site that was established after a massive 2015 spill of hazardous mine waste that fouled rivers with a sickly yellow sheen in three states. […]
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The only hospital in the country’s highest altitude city is thriving after near-closure 7 years ago
When the only hospital in Leadville started to close down seven years ago, officials in the highest-altitude city in the country worried they would lose their “heart and soul.” There were layoffs in the nursing department. Extended care patients were moved to nursing homes. A city council member feared retirees would flee to other areas […]
Posted inBusiness, News, Outdoors
A former mining camp is converting into a boutique getaway, sparking hope in Montrose County’s West End
NATURITA — The flashing lights bounce off the rusting water tank as the DJ’s thunderous bass resonates across the desert. A couple dozen well-spaced revelers, young and old in wigs and glitter and outrageous costumes, frolic beneath the glowing Milky Way. A friend leans over to Natalie Binder as they absorb the scene from the […]
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Many hoped the Gold King Mine spill would bring change. Five years later, they’re still waiting.
It didn’t take long after the sludge settled five years ago for the calls for change to begin. In fact, 3 million gallons of orange-gold water that poured out of the Gold King Mine on Aug. 5, 2015, was still flowing through the Colorado River watershed when discussions about the broader issue of thousands of […]
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BLM, citing public ire, demands intensive review of test bores before mine above Glenwood Springs can expand
The Bureau of Land Management will conduct an environmental review of test bores proposed by the owner of limestone quarry seeking to exponentially expand the operation above Glenwood Springs. Rocky Mountain Resources had asked the BLM to exempt from environmental review the drilling of five test wells it needs to assess the viability of expanding […]
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50 million gallons of polluted water pours daily from mine sites across the U.S., including Colorado
By Matthew Brown, The Associated Press RIMINI, Mont. — Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surrounding streams and ponds without being treated, The Associated Press has found. That torrent is poisoning aquatic life and tainting […]