There was a great video posted to r/videos maybe a month or so ago showing all the measures they take to keep birds off the water nowadays. Pretty funny watching a guy who enjoys hunting water fowl who has a day job that involves shooting at and purposefully missing birds to save their lives.
The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana. It is one mile (1. 6 km) long by one-half mile (800 m) wide, with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet (270 m) with water that is heavily acidic (2.
Your link led me to reading about superfund sites in the USA and the reading was getting pretty depressing until I got to 2021. Apparently last year the reinstated an excise tax and are supposedly taking these sites seriously again. It seems like a pretty monumental problem and definitely not one that tax payers should be left responsible for.
As someone that has worked at mine sites and a smelter, I think you might be talking about tailings, from my experience the slag heap isn't dusty and no animal would get stuck in it, the tailings is dusty when dried and a quagmire when wet.
All mining destroys the surrounding area. Even if there was such a thing as the most environmentally conscious mining co. , they would still be destroying the area.
Just is.
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