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    Gold King Mine The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, when...
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  • abandoned mine drainage has led to major environmental events, such as the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill.. Colorado has ten mines with active water treatment...
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  • inappropriate environmental toxic waste discharge due to the gold cyanidation technique used in gold mining. Other disasters at gold mines such as those resulting...
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    River, was severely affected by the EPA's accidental August 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. Notes: Flood control: Temporary retention and quick release...
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  • affirmative steps to secure water for the Tribe. Additionally, environmental crises, such as the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill have had lasting impact...
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  • 2012 Obed Mountain coal mine spill in Alberta, Canada, October 2013 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill in Colorado, August 2015 Mariana dam disaster,...
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    Foundation for the Humanities. 1986. Retrieved 2019-11-06. "2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill (before & after)". Eco Terra Media Group. Retrieved 2019-11-06...
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    from abandoned gold and silver mines has also been a major issue, as occurred in the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill into the Animas River, the main...
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    Pyrite (redirect from Fool's Gold)
    leading to acid mine drainage (AMD). An example of acid rock drainage caused by pyrite is the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. 2 FeS 2 ( s ) +...
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    This is a list of notable waste disposal incidents. List of environmental issues...
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    biodiversity, ecosystems, and climate. Gold mining produces more waste than mining of other minerals, because it can be mined at a lower grade. Tailings can contain...
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  • abandoned mines. The United States has had many different environmental disasters caused by these mines, such as the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. Many...
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    capacity from 2015 through 2019. As Attorney General, Branch oversaw the legal work involved with the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill, as well then-President...
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    by Gallery Nosco in London. Animas is a reaction to the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill, where three million gallons of contaminated wastewater...
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    Navajo Nation (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from December 2015)
    affirmative steps to secure water for the Tribe. Additionally, environmental crises, such as the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill have had lasting impact...
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    mines was banned on Navajo lands in 2005. Following the Gold King Mine Spill in 2015, farmers lost 75% of their crops due to the lack of clean water....
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  • catastrophes such as the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. Remote laboratory Engineering disasters Engineering management...
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    vehicles to reduce illegal air emissions. In August 2015, the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill occurred when EPA contractors examined the level of...
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    Tailings (redirect from Mining waste)
    Research at the Porgera Gold Mine is focusing on developing a method of combining tailings products with coarse waste rock and waste muds to create a product...
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    Environmental Protection Agency over negligence after the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. The spill had caused heavy metals such as cadmium and lead and...
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    surface water and ground water. This process is called acid mine drainage. These gold ore dumps contain long-term, highly hazardous waste. It was once common...
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    happened in other mine drainage tunnels in Colorado (such as the Yak tunnel, the Argo Tunnel and the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill north of Silverton...
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    Environmental Protection Agency over negligence after the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. The spill had caused heavy metals such as cadmium and lead and...
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    2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill. In January 2017, the last month of Obama's second term, the agency declined to compensate anyone for the spill...
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    nuclear power plants. At least 150 leaks, spills and licence breaches occurred at the Ranger uranium mine between 1981 and 2009. The following is a list...
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    mine waste into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas. The plug was accidentally removed while investigating a leak at the abandoned Gold King Mine...
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    of mismanaged plastic waste were produced in 2015. Borrelle et al. 2020 has estimated that 19–23 million tonnes of plastic waste entered aquatic ecosystems...
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    directly through the handling of solid waste, and indirectly through the consumption of water, soil, and food. Waste is produced by human activity, for example...
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    surface water. Multiple pollution incidents such as the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill (2008) and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010)...
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    include coal seam fires (Carbondale mine fire, Centralia mine fire, and Laurel Run mine fire) and coal slurry spills. Coal was found in the 1740s in Virginia...
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