Primer: Acid Mine Drainage
Acid mine drainage may be the perfect poison. It kills fish. It kills bugs. It kills the birds that eat the bugs that live in streams tainted by the drainage. It lasts forever. And to create it, one needs no factory, lab, or added chemicals. One merely needs to dig a hole in the earth.
The hole, or mine, exposes once-buried, sulfide-bearing rocks such as…
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