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Summitville Gold Mine ⚒️ Rehabilitation information

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Summitville Gold Mine ⚒️ Rehabilitation information

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Summitville Gold Mine ⚒️ Rehabilitation information

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    September 18, 2017

    Hundred years of gold mining, at last in the 1980s with cyanide, turned this once beautiful mountain and the rivers below Summitville into a highly contaminated toxic wasteland, costing US taxpayers already millions of dollars more in cleanup than the gold and copper it produced.

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      Elevation 3,430 m

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      Location: Rio Grande County, Colorado, United States

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