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The Animas River between Silverton and Durango in Colorado within 24 hours of the Gold King Mine spill. (Photo by riverhugger via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Navajo Nation reaches $31M settlement for Gold King Mine spill

By Source New MexicoJun 17, 2022
Shown here: Donlin Gold's base camp near Crooked Creek, in western Alaska, the site of what would be one of the world's largest gold mines. (Photo courtesy of Donlin Gold).
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Alaska affirms water certificate for proposed Donlin mine

By Joaqlin EstusMay 17, 2022
One of many abandoned mine shafts, center left, along the Cherum Peak Trail in the Cerbat Mountains, exposed now after a covering structure collapsed, Monday, Sept. 3, 2007, in Chloride, Ariz. Not far away two sisters fell into a 125-foot-deep abandoned mine shaft while driving their all-terrain vehicle late Saturday. Rikki Howard, 13, died in the accident while her sister Casie Hicks, 10, is in the hospital being treated for her injuries. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Arizona poised to buckle down on abandoned mines

By The Associated PressMar 29, 2022
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro rubs his mouth during a ceremony to commemorate Public Servant Day, at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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Illegal mining stokes Indigenous divisions

By The Associated PressJan 22, 2022
Shown here: Donlin Gold's base camp near Crooked Creek, in western Alaska, the site of what would be one of the world's largest gold mines. (Photo courtesy of Donlin Gold).
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Proposed Alaska gold mine worries area tribes

By Joaqlin EstusJan 20, 2022