Plans for a huge gold mining operation has put the Chetco River in Southern Oregon on this year’s “Most Endangered Rivers” list.
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Plans for a huge gold mining operation has put the Chetco River in Southern Oregon on this year’s “Most Endangered Rivers” list.
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After decades of leaching mercury into the streams and rivers of Lane County, the EPA has put the former Black Butte Mine on the Superfund clean up list. The mine is located about ten miles south of Cottage Grove. EPA has documents thousands of cubic yards of tailings and soil that’s been contaminated by...
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More than two dozen businesses, most of them from Southwest Oregon, are joining the call for new laws to regulate gold mining. It’s become a big issue for the area, partly because of rising gold prices, partly because of California’s new ban on suction dredge mining. That method is still legal in Oregon and...
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Bandon area homeowners have a new argument against a proposed chromite mining operation in their area. The Coos Bay World newspaper says the homeowners presented evidence that levels of hexavalent chromium are increasing in some nearby wells. The wells are owned by Oregon Resources Corp., the same company that wants to conduct the mining....
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