An illustration showing what the proposed New World tailings pond would have generally looked like in the drainage where it would have been located%E2%80%94a drainage where melting snowpack and rain pushes through lots of water and saturated the ground in an area prone of earthquakes. Had a breach of the tailing impoundment occurred%2C the fear was it would send pollution into streams leading to the Clark%27s Fork of the Yellowstone River. Meanwhile%2C old mining wastes on nearby Henderson Mountain posed a potential risk of reaching the Lamar River in Yellowstone. Photo courtesy Mike Clark%252FMSU Library Archives Special Collection
An illustration showing what the proposed New World tailings pond would have generally looked like in the drainage where it would have been located%E2%80%94a drainage where melting snowpack and rain pushes through lots of water and saturated the ground in an area prone of earthquakes. Had a breach of the tailing impoundment occurred%2C the fear was it would send pollution into streams leading to the Clark%27s Fork of the Yellowstone River. Meanwhile%2C old mining wastes on nearby Henderson Mountain posed a potential risk of reaching the Lamar River in Yellowstone. Photo courtesy Mike Clark%252FMSU Library Archives Special Collection