The state has issued no mining permits for the site of Tuesday afternoon’s 15,000-gallon discharge of orange-hued water into James Creek, a state mining official said Wednesday.
A database check by the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety turned up no records in its files that the mine — identified by Boulder County Sheriff’s Office as the Alicia Mine — has either an active state permit or that any earlier permits were issued for operating a mine there, said Tony Waldron, supervisor of the division’s minerals program.
The sheriff’s office has said a couple of men appear to have been actively working the Alicia Mine and inadvertently released water from a stagnant pool inside the mine, which is located on the 1500 block of James Canyon Drive.
Boulder County’s Hazardous Material Squad tested samples of the water for arsenic, cyanide and mercury but found no signs of any of those substances.
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