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The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, [2] when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.
[16] [10] The Sunnyside Mine would become one of Colorado's longest running and most productive mines. [9] The mine was shut down after the 1929 stock market crash, but was acquired by Standard Metals Corp. in 1959, and reopened, finding gold in 1973 with the Little Mary vein. The region's economy was dealt a devastating blow in 1992 when the ...
Corporate headquarters were in Englewood, Colorado. In 1986 the company purchased Sunnyside Gold Mine in Silverton, Colorado, and operated it for five years before it closed because of low gold prices. [6] The company became a subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation in 2003 and has been delisted from the stock exchange.
A rescue operation in Colorado to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured. 12 rescued from ...
A storage unit near Denver whose contents were purchased at auction turned out to contain a land mine, Colorado sheriff’s officials said. Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order around the ...
English: Foundations of the old Sunnyside Mill at the ghost town of Eureka, Colorado, can be seen in May of 2018. The Sunnyside Mine was the last operating mine to shut down in San Juan County, closing for good in 1991, although the mill in the photo shut down in the 40s.
Colorado authorities have identified the person that died in a former gold mine that is now a tourist attraction.. Patrick Weier, a Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tour guide, died after being trapped ...
The Sunnyside mine was shut down after the 1929 stock market crash, but was acquired by Standard Metals Corp. in 1959, and reopened, finding gold in 1973 with the Little Mary vein. The county's economy was dealt a devastating blow in 1992 when the mine and the corresponding Shenandoah-Dives mill, the last operating in the region, permanently ...