The open pit areas are surrounded by an array of sculpted tailings ponds and mine dump areas; these receive mine waste rock for storage and later leaching for further recovery of metals.

In fact, the crisis is stillgrowing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons ofglobal-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if itwere an open sewer.

Her father took her camping in the Adirondacks one summer in the 1970s, and behind the lean-to at their campsite in the middle of a seemingly pristine forest they discovered a small open-air dump.