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FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2015, file photo, Dan Bender of the La Plata County Sheriff's Office takes a water sample from the Animas River near Durango, Colo., after the accidental release of an estimated 3 million gallons of waste from the Gold King Mine. The Navajo Nation's Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, has settled with two mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that sent wastewater downstream from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado.
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2015, aerial photo, wastewater streams out of the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado after a contractor crew hired by the Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently triggered the release of about 3 million gallons of water tainted with heavy metals. The Navajo Nation's Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, it has settled with two mining companies to resolve claims stemming from the 2015 spill that sent wastewater downstream from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado.
FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2015, file photo, Dan Bender of the La Plata County Sheriff's Office takes a water sample from the Animas River near Durango, Colo., after the accidental release of an estimated 3 million gallons of waste from the Gold King Mine. The Navajo Nation's Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, has settled with two mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that sent wastewater downstream from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado.
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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2015, aerial photo, wastewater streams out of the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado after a contractor crew hired by the Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently triggered the release of about 3 million gallons of water tainted with heavy metals. The Navajo Nation's Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, it has settled with two mining companies to resolve claims stemming from the 2015 spill that sent wastewater downstream from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation’s Department of Justice announced Wednesday it has settled with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three western states being fouled with a bright-yellow plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals.
Under the settlement with the Navajo Nation, Sunnyside Gold Corp. — a subsidiary of Canada’s Kinross Gold — will pay the tribe $10 million.
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