Mine is not Rare to Find
TSP: Mr. Waterways, water from Mines isn't mine! From a recent News Article by Elizabeth Miller titled " Climate Change Is Acidifying and Contaminating Drinking Water and Alpine Ecosystems" , published in November by Scientific American, the following points were derived. 1. Water bodies may be contaminated via leaching of metals down the mountains as well as from mining environments. 2. Some acidification and mineralization such as those from the mountain may be natural. 3. This has a huge adverse effect on aquatic creatures. 4. Climate change speeds up the process of aquatic ecosystem contamination. 5. This could alter water quality in watersheds in mountains containing high concentrations of minerals. 6. According to a research carried out by Garrett Rue, a postdoctoral scientist studying waterways at the University of Colorado’s Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, the water contaminants may include rare earth metals. 7. "