A Canadian environmental nonprofit group, long critical of the Red Chris Mine in the northern watershed of the Stikine River, has released a new report that cites increasing underground seepage of contaminants from the mine’s tailings pond.
The report comes as British Columbia regulators are considering the mine operator’s application to expand ore recovery by changing to underground tunneling instead of open-pit surface mining.
The gold and copper mine started operations in 2015 and sits about 50 miles east of the Stikine River community of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. The site is about...
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