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Сентябрь
2024

This Colorado town wants to mine gold from waste

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For every ton of ore milled, a ton of waste would remain—minus a few ounces of gold.

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more than a century after the city’s boom days.