Thousands of mines with toxic water lie under the West

Monday, August 10, 2015

DENVER -- Beneath the western United States lie thousands of old mining tunnels filled with the same toxic stew that spilled into a Colorado river last week, turning it into a yellow concoction and stoking alarm about contamination of drinking water.

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