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- largest gold mine in North America
- world's largest gold mining company
- Tailings Disposal: 2 engineered facilities
- Largest Gold Deposit: Betze-Post in Carlin Trend
(open-pit zone w/ 5 generations of formed pyrite mineralisation)
- Nevada Division of Environmental Protection
- Nevada Division of Water Resources
- Bureau of Land Management/U.S. Forest
- (BMRR) Bureau of Servie Mining Regulation & Reclamation
-- 3 Branches:
Regulation & Closure: Water Pollution Control Permit
Reclamation: Reclamation Permit (construction of mining activity)
- Nevada Bureau of Air Pollution Control:
- Water Pollution Control Permit
- Reclamation Permit
- Air Pollution Control
- Underground Injection Control
- Jurisdictional Dam Permit
- Nevada Mercury Control Program (if there's potential to emit mercury)
- pay penalty: release of hazardous waste (releases of mercury)
- payed $600,000
--Newmont: $395,000
-- Goldstrike: $196,000
- Goldstrike: doesn't admit to any offense
- Mercury particles: relased into the air & travel up to neighbouring states
- Water: pumped from the mine & aquifers, can be infused with mercury
- Mercury: relased into water due to groundwater & air pollution
- Mercury in soil: can lead to issues for surrounding areas, polluting soil
- Polluted waters: distroy vital enviroments & slow down flow of streams
- Mercury: gets into the water - gets ingested by fish - can be ingested by humans & other animals
- Soil: affected by mercury - causes issues for plants & forest (killing them & weakening soil)
- Animals: ingest any mercury in water/air - have high risk of dying
- find safer, cleaner ways dispose of groundwater from the mines
- find a new method of mining so mercury isn't used as much as it is