Often, it’s not the mine sites themselves that are the problem. Over hundreds of years, waste material has been washed downstream and accumulated in riverbanks and floodplains, where humans and ...

In an era concerned with ensuring sustainability in all things, the issue of mine closure and land rehabilitation and reuse has become a major concern. It was a topic for discussion by a panel at the ...

But scientific advancements now make extracting silver and gold financially ... Michael hopes that the Leadville project will show that cleaning up mine waste can yield a profit and encourage ...

The Three Kids Mine remediation project, near Lake Las Vegas, is making strides. Here’s how far along the state is.

There is more than a century’s worth of mine waste in B.C. from legacy and operating mines, and some of that waste contains valuable critical minerals that can now be extracted using various ...

The waste output generated by the extraction of ... of a number of indigenous extremophile microbes proliferating in mine wastes like red mud,” says Huang. “The process of geochemical ...

Teracita Keyanna (Diné) has lived a life touched by uranium. Growing up in the Coyote Chapter in the Eastern Navajo Nation, ...