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LOOKING LOCAL: COLORADO MINE COLLAPSE PREDICTED

Cat.: Bureau of Reclamation, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), News & Comment, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency
28. February 2008
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If this isn't an example of preventive journalism people should pay attention to, then nothing is.  Dan Frosch of the New York Times reports on a massive abandoned mine tunnel near Leadville, Colorado that has filled with runoff over the last two decades and is now very likely to collapse, ...