Dams, storage ponds, used to hold contaminated water following Yukon mine landslide

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MAYO, YUKON — The Department of Energy Mines and Resources in Yukon says contaminated water from a landslide and equipment failure at a territory gold mine is being pumped into storage ponds, while the investigation continues into what went wrong.

The latest statement from the Yukon government says the failure at the heap-leach facility at the Victoria Gold Eagle Mine near Mayo on Monday resulted in a slide that spilled outside a containment area at the base of the facility.

Neither the territorial government nor the company have said how much contamination spilled or what the environmental risks are.

 

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