Pierogi's been keeping an eye out for you, and he's thrilled to harken your arrival. "Hark!" he says.

Water that has its pH adjusted up starts to precipitate the metals dissolved in it, which is actually an improvement. The below stream is starting to drop it's metal after the pH improves and allows the metal to move out of solution .

Water is wild. Some of the clearest can be some of the dirtiest, as the intense acid content dissolves all the metals and makes it appear clear. The below clear water has a metals load of 2000+ mg/L, but you'd never know it by its appearance.

Lower Blue Lake at dusk, San Juans, Colorado

Mining with a Repurpose: In the Deep Creek limestone mine, a new life has sprung from the caverns in the form of an artist enclave. Welders can work year round without worrying about fires, sound experiments take on insulated and reverbatory life, and artists collaborate across all mediums

150 year old head frame standing on Red Mountain Pass, framed by fall colors

One of the lakes we maintain to supply drinking water through 100 year old historic mining infrastructure. Makes for a great office.

Trying to save this old beast, the American Girl, a 130 year old head frame. Thinking of welding 24" plates to some house jacks for stabilization and using a waste rock infill.