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Our Land: Gold King Mine Spill, Science Contest Winner & Online Indian Market

A group of children wading into a gold-tinted river.

In the August installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus revisits the Gold King Mine spill and the destructive impact of the toxic orange plume that went flowing down the Animas and San Juan rivers five years ago. The waste that was released when crews tried to reopen the abandoned mine killed fish and…

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