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Locals worry plan to recycle Leadville’s mining waste could threaten Arkansas River, unearth town’s long-buried history
Nick Michael thinks he has got a great idea. Collect ore and tailings from the slag piles scattered around Leadville, extract bits of silver and gold in a vat of chemicals and then store the waste in a permitted facility.  It’s a plan he’s been simmering since he bought the dormant Leadville Mill in California Gulch in 2008.  “Why create new quarries and mines when we have all this slag and ore we can use?” Michael said. “This is environmental justice and the circular economy.”  The plan is facing fierce opposition from residents in the Upper Arkansas River Valley who are concerned about impacts to the headwaters of the Arkansas River and a return to a mining legacy that the

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