Category: Monitoring the Buckhorn Mine

Crown submits Notice of Intent for extensive exploration program

Company stores up to 7.9 million gallons of water in mine-shafts, and trucks waste water at a rate of over a million gallons per month to the tailings pond near Republic, WA, with no environmental review or mitigation to compensate for the loss of water from the basin

Second annual meeting with OHA, Crown, & agencies

Temporary reverse osmosis treatment installed

OHA provides Comprehensive Matrix of Reporting Requirements to agencies and Crown

Multiple Violations issued by Ecology

Mine water quality problems persist, Breakpoint Chlorination system fails and is abandoned

Forest Service approves exploration

Forest Service issues exploration EA

Crown fined $40,000 for water quality violation; failure to maintain a capture zone around the mine