America's highest city hits new low in toxic battle over plans to use cyanide to get gold from abandoned mines
For decades, 30-foot high piles of mining waste have punctuated the horizon of a picturesque Colorado city, separating its main drag of Victorian-style houses from some of the state's tallest mountains. Weighing in at several million tons, the orange-and-hazel mounds are the looming remnants of Leadville's mining heyday, when it thrived as a key hub in America's gold rush. But the precious metal-studded piles which have laid dormant for years are about to be awakened in efforts to 'remine' the remaining specks of silver and gold using cyanide - and not everyone is happy about it.
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