The Earth's open wounds: abandoned and orphaned mines. (Focus).

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Some former mine sites are scars on the land: shafts and tunnels may or may not be boarded closed, and piles of waste rock dot the landscape. Other former sites appear harmless. Perhaps the slurry of ground rock "tailings" and water that once was waste from a mill pond has dried into a smooth field. Plants may have obscured or overrun much of the evidence of mankind's incursions into the Earth. But whether the land still appears raw or has begun to heal, dormant mine sites can be a source of myriad environmental hazards.

Some of the hazards are obvious. Old mine openings may ...

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