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Zach Hively is the brilliance behind Fool’s Gold, the weekly column. He contributes regularly to the Durango Telegraph, and he is also a fiction writer, craft beer blogger, and work-for-hire editor. If you have nuggets to share, tweet @ZachHively or visit zachhively.com.

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Toxic stalemate on the Animas river

04. April 2013

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By Zach Hively Toxic stalemate on the Animas river

Eight hundred gallons a minute of toxic custard-yellow water pours out of the mouths of four mines around the ghost town of Gladstone, Colorado. Zinc, copper, cadmium, iron, lead, aluminum, and manganese flow down Cement Creek into the Animas River just south of Silverton...

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