Locals no longer stop to drink the water or swim at Hanrahan’s Creek. The water is freakish green and blue.
The copper concentrations they measured were about 377 milligrams per litre, where a pristine or high conversation stream would be about 0.001 milligrams per litre.
When Redbank Copper acquired the mine in 2006 (some ten years after it was closed) it inherited legal responsibility for the environmental problems. The company is currently attempting to raise $7.5m from investors, arguing that the only way to correct the problems is to restart the mine.
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