Zortman Landusky Pegasus Heap Leach Cyanide Gold Mine

This is a clip taken from a documentary we produced at MCAT public access television in Missoula Montana in 1993.

We captured the footage and interviews on location at the Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation.

Since that time the Zortman Landusky Gold Mine operation closed when the Pegasus Gold Corporation filed for Bankrupsy leaving Montana with yet another massive Superfund Site and dangerous ground water pollution problem.

The Pegasus Gold Corporation (a Candadian Company) obtained the land without royalty through the use of the 1872 mining law and left the US tax payers footing the bill for a massive cleanup which will never end.

To see part of the current massive water treatment system that is part of the Superfund Cleanup download this PDF:

http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/mt/field_offices/lewistown/zortman.Par....

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