Corporations are trying to open a mill and use cyanide to extract gold
from old mining waste in a small mountain town.

Help the community stop the mill and protect their water from the all too
real risk of cyanide contamination.

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

The Arkansas River turned red in the 1980s due to heavy metal
contamination from Leadville, Colorado’s mines, mills, and smelters. But
after decades of intense clean-up efforts, the river is finally healthy
again and the tiny town of Leadville has become an eco-tourism
destination.

That is why the area’s residents are fighting against a permit that would
allow CJK Milling and Union Milling companies to reopen the old Leadville
Mill and expand it to extract tiny pieces of gold from old mining waste
with a “cyanide leaching” process.

This corporate scheme would put at risk everything the town has fought so
hard to achieve. The milling process would release toxic dust into the
air, use nearly 10 million gallons of fresh water a year, and risk
contaminating the Arkansas River and local families’ wells with cyanide.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to demand that state and county officials deny CJK
and Union’s permit to reopen and expand the Leadville Mill.

Barrick Gold. Imperial Oil. And now CJK and Union Milling. All four
companies make their money by going into small communities with greedy
extraction schemes that result in massive amounts of toxic waste water.
And they always say their systems to store all that waste water and
protect against leaks are 'impenetrable.'

But accidents always happen. And it’s the surrounding communities who
suffer when toxic levels of cyanide, mercury, arsenic, and other heavy
metals wind up in their rivers, wells, and soil.

[ [link removed] ]Will you add your name to the petition to save Leadville and the
Arkansas River from cyanide contamination?

Tens of thousands of Ekō members like you have taken action to support
communities around the world who are trying to get Barrick and Imperial to
clean up after the water contamination has already happened. This is your
chance to help a community stop a corporate extraction scheme before the
damage is done.



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Lacey and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Mill Campaign References, CC4LC
[ [link removed] ]Leadville Mill updates plans, Herald Democrat, 8 March 2023
[ [link removed] ]California Gulch Superfund Site, Colorado Encyclopedia

 

 

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