Gold King Mine

Durango has water storage for only a few weeks, now it braces for historically low snowpack (抖阴ap)

March 5, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

Denver never stops seeking more water for its burgeoning population. But Durango, a town of...

August 31, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

"For me, there's no use in complaining," a Trout Unlimited mining coordinator said. "I'd rather...

November 4, 2024 at 10:56 a.m.

It was the summer of 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such...

May 11, 2023 at 3:20 p.m.

The federal government will pay Colorado $5 million to clean contamination left behind by mines...

October 23, 2022 at 1:58 p.m.

Colorado mountain residents got so frustrated by gold and gravel mining churning through wetlands along...

April 29, 2022 at 3:28 p.m.

Under the finalized settlement, the company and its Canadian owner, Kinross Gold Corporation, will pay...

December 13, 2021 at 4:23 p.m.

The Sunnyside Gold Corporation will pay $1.6 million to settle environmental damage claims connected to...

August 29, 2020 at 3:44 p.m.

There are hundreds of thousands of abandoned hard rock mining sites or features scattered throughout...

July 10, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

A mining company says it won't carry out cleanup work ordered by the U.S. Environmental...

June 20, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.

The Environmental Protection Agency says contamination from nearly 50 mining sites in southwestern Colorado doesn't...