River of Lost Souls
The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster
Salt Lake City ; Torrey : Torrey House Press, [arch 2018]
Format: Book
Edition: First Torrey House Press edition.
Description: 312 pages ; 21 cm
"In 2015, a flood of thick yellow sludge from a long-abandoned mine in Silverton, Colorado, made headlines as it flowed down the Animas River towards the Navajo Nation and the mighty Colorado River. Perhaps the most charismatic environmental disaster of our time, the Gold King Mine spill illustrates the devastating potential waiting in hundreds of abandoned mines throughout the Rocky Mountains. With disarming storytelling, award-winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends"--Back cover.
Contents:
Part 1. Headwaters: Blowout -- Holy land -- Awful in their sublimity -- Dandelion brew -- Olaf and the Gold King -- Perfect poison -- Slime wars I -- Vertical integration -- Hard rain's gonna fall -- The blackest week -- Slime wars II -- Strike -- Part II. Fossils: Moving mountain -- "This can't be the United States" -- Hot spot -- Radiate as directed -- Part III. We're all downstreamers: Black decade -- Project Skywater -- Lake Emma -- The fish question -- Mine down -- Lost soul, found soul -- Mine pool -- Fractures, faults, and leaks -- Goldfields -- Aftermath -- Sacrifice -- Redemption -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Environmental degradation -- West (U.S.)
Environmental disasters -- West (U.S.)
Waste spills -- Colorado -- Gold King Mine (San Juan County)
Abandoned mined lands reclamation -- Accidents -- Colorado -- Gold King Mine (San Juan County)
Water -- Pollution -- Animas River (Colo. and N.M.)
Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
Energy development -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
Mines and mineral resources -- History.
Animas River (Colo. and N.M.) -- History.
Environmental degradation -- West (U.S.)
Environmental disasters -- West (U.S.)
Waste spills -- Colorado -- Gold King Mine (San Juan County)
Abandoned mined lands reclamation -- Accidents -- Colorado -- Gold King Mine (San Juan County)
Water -- Pollution -- Animas River (Colo. and N.M.)
Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
Energy development -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
Mines and mineral resources -- History.
Animas River (Colo. and N.M.) -- History.
ISBN:
9781937226831
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SCIENCE Conserve Tho | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-312).