A plan to extract gold from mine tailings is dividing a Colorado town with a legacy of pollution
LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Rust-colored piles of mine tailings and sun-bleached wooden derricks tower over the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville, a legacy of gold and silver mining that pollutes the Arkansas River basin more than a century after the town’s heyday. Meet a startup called CJK Milling that wants to “remine” some of … Read more