Mainstream Media Ignorance About Mining – Especially Waste Disposal – by Marilyn Scales
Marilyn Scales - Canadian Mining Journal
I’ve let the daily press get under my skin again. Newspapers and the CBC are telling the public that mining companies are going to destroy pristine Canadian lakes by turning them into dump sites for toxic mine waste. Why does the popular press still think that everything coming from a mine operation is “toxic”? Has no one outside the mining industry ever heard of sub-aqueous deposition?
There are 16 projects for which mining companies have applied to use lakes as tailings repositories, claim the environmentalists. The list includes the following 15:
BRITISH COLUMBIA
- NORTHGATE MINERALS – Kemess North (Duncan Lake)
- SHERWOOD COPPER – Kutcho Creek (Andrea Creek)
- ADANAC MOLY – Ruby Creek (Ruby Creek)
- TASEKO MINES – Prosperity (Fish Lake)
- IMPERIAL METALS – Red Chris
- TERRANE METALS – Mount Milligan
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