eagle mine

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The Eagle Mine Superfund site is located in Eagle County, Colorado, approximately one mile southeast of Minturn. The site is defined as the area impacted by past mining activity along the Eagle River between the towns of Red Cliff and Minturn. Miners began working the Eagle Mine in the 1880s, searching for gold and silver. The Eagle Mine later became a large zinc mining operation, leaving high levels of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead and zinc in the soil and in surface and groundwater. Copper-silver production continued at Eagle Mine until the mine workings were allowed to flood and the mine closed in 1984.

Hazardous Ranking Score

47 / 100

A score of 28.5 or higher qualifies a site for the Superfund National Priority List.

Regional Contact

Region 8
Phone: (303) 312-6312

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Discovery
Site Inspection
Preliminary Assessment
Final Listing On NPL
Removal

Contaminants & Health Effects

      Carcinogen
      Endocrine Disrupter
      Neurotoxic
      Sensitiser
      Reproductive Toxin
      Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
      VOC
      Mutagen

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        Other

        N/A

        People living
        within a 1 mile radius

        $84,961

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