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After Colorado spill, attention turns to threat of old mines
Colorado is scrambling to address 230 abandoned mines, which leak enough heavy metals to rival the Gold King disaster every two days. Tens of thousands of old mines dot public lands in the western US, and 80 percent are in need of remediation. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reclamation of the Red and Bonita mine led to the release of some 3 million gallons of sludge from the nearby Gold King site earlier this month, turning the Animas River orange and sending a 100-mile long plume of toxic metals through Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
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