WHITEWOOD -- Looking down at the clear swirls of Whitewood Creek as it curled beneath a country bridge a few miles northeast of town, Todd Duex pointed out the obvious.
Mines from as far back as the 1890s are being cleaned up for tailings in the Red River area. Cleanup projects to the Red River Mining district that were implemented in 2005 are nearing completion.
Gov. Paul LePage has signed a new mining regulatory bill, but that doesn't mean mining is new in Maine. In fact, it has a long history in the state going back to the early 1800s, when iron and lead extractions added to the state's better-known granite and limestone quarrying industries.
Posted May 07, 2012, at 2:26 p.m. Last modified May 07, 2012, at 5:33 p.m. Gov. Paul LePage has signed a new mining regulatory bill, but that doesn’t mean mining is new in Maine.
Gov. Paul LePage has signed a new mining regulatory bill, but that doesn't mean mining is new in Maine. In fact, it has a long history in the state going back to the early 1800s, when iron and lead extractions ...
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Gov. Paul LePage has signed a mining regulatory bill, but that doesn't mean mining is new in Maine. In fact, it has a long history in the state going back to the 1800s.
State and federal environmental officials will provide an update for the public Thursday on progress of cleanup work of mining waste at the Barker Hughesville and Carpenter Snow Creek Superfund sites in Cascade and Judith Basin counties.