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Rio Grande County

Summitville Mine Tailings Pond ⚒️☠️

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Rio Grande County

Summitville Mine Tailings Pond ⚒️☠️

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Summitville Mine Tailings Pond ⚒️☠️

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Rio Grande National Forest

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    September 18, 2017

    Mountain biking

    Hundred years of gold mining, at last in the 1980s with cyanide, turned this once beautiful mountain and the rivers below into a highly contaminated toxic wasteland, costing US taxpayers already millions of dollars more in cleanup than the gold and copper it produced.
    Another possibly toxic site of mining refuse. Most of the water in this large region should be avoided unless carefully tested pure in a laboratory

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    Elevation 3,410 m

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    Location: Rio Grande County, Colorado, United States

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