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EPA Slaps Fine on Kellogg, Wash.-Based Sunshine Mine and Refining.(Originated from The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 1997 by Miller, John; Welch, Craig
May 6--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed a complaint against Sunshine Mining and Refining Co. on Monday, accusing the company of 49 water quality violations between 1992 and 1996.
The EPA is asking the Kellogg-based firm to pay $125,000 in penalties.
According to the EPA, the alleged illegal discharges were made from the Sunshine mine tailings pond into the South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River and from a diversion dam into Big Creek.
Forty of the alleged violations involved concentrations of heavy metals, including iron, manganese, gold, nickel, silver and zinc, the EPA said.
Falcon Price, project engineer with the silver mine, suggested the violations were minor. But members of a state conservation group...
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