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Archive Home > 2001 > June > 22 > Environmental workers clean up mercury contamination at Mother Lode mine

Environmental workers clean up mercury contamination at Mother Lode mine

By Julie Johnson / The Bulletin
June 22, 2001

OCHOCO NATIONAL FOREST " Last summer, workers in haz-mat suits scurried over the yellow soil of the Mother Lode mine near Lookout Mountain, trying to rid the site of mercury contamination left by more than 50 years of mercury mining.

Now, the only sign of the cleanup is a shallow layer of....

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