SILVERTON – The streets of Silverton buzz with summer tourists in late July. Passengers disembark from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, duck into gift shops, sip beers at saloons and ...
Three million gallons of acidic mine drainage flooded into the Animas River basin 10 years ago, turning the southern Colorado river a mustard yellow and making international headlines. Caused by ...
It was the summer of 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it made national news. The metallic color came from the Gold King Mine, near the town of ...
Despite spending tens of millions of dollars, the EPA work hasn’t amounted to much of a change for the Animas River and surrounding mining district Tuesday, Aug. 5, marks the 10th anniversary of the ...