Globe and Mail of 2011Mar7: British Columbia section
Mostly interested in one article in the BC section.
print-version title: Life has trickled back to a ‘lonely, dead river’
online-version title: How the Coho returned to the Tsolum River
"a $4.5-million project to seal an old mine on Mount Washington that was generating acid rock drainage.
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The Mt. Washington Copper Mining Co. only operated from 1964 through 1966, excavating copper ore on a small 13 hectare site, near Courtenay, on Vancouver Island. But when the bankrupt company abandoned the mine, it left behind 940,000 tonnes of waste rock - and a toxic legacy that for the next 44 years brewed sulphuric acid ...
Mr. Minard said. “The Romans mined on the Thames River and that site is still generating acid rock drainage, 3,000 years later.” ..."
print-version title: Life has trickled back to a ‘lonely, dead river’
online-version title: How the Coho returned to the Tsolum River
"a $4.5-million project to seal an old mine on Mount Washington that was generating acid rock drainage.
...
The Mt. Washington Copper Mining Co. only operated from 1964 through 1966, excavating copper ore on a small 13 hectare site, near Courtenay, on Vancouver Island. But when the bankrupt company abandoned the mine, it left behind 940,000 tonnes of waste rock - and a toxic legacy that for the next 44 years brewed sulphuric acid ...
Mr. Minard said. “The Romans mined on the Thames River and that site is still generating acid rock drainage, 3,000 years later.” ..."