The Klau/Buena Vista Mine is a Superfund site located approximately 12 miles west of Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, California. It consists of two abandoned mercury mine sites (Klau and Buena Vista) that are located on adjacent properties on a northwest–southeast ridge of the Santa Lucia Range in the California coastal mountains.

2019年3月13日 · There are perhaps four major mercury mines in San Luis Obispo County: Rinconada, near Santa Margarita, Klau and Buena Vista west of Paso Robles and the Oceanic mine near Cambria. The county is...

Mercury mining and ore processing operations occurred at the Buena Vista Mine and adjacent Klau Mine between 1868 and 1970. Buena Vista Mines, Inc., has owned the Buena Vista Mine since at least 1957 and the Klau Mine since at least 1964.

The study concluded that the Buena Vista Mine and Klau Mine are the primary contributing sources of mercury contamination to Las Tablas Creek and the Lake Nacimiento Reservoir System.

The Klau Mine, about 17 miles northwest of Paso Robles, opened in 1868 and yielded nearly 18,000 flasks of mercury by 1940. Operation of the Buena Vista or Mahoney mine started in 1900 and was active well into the 1960s. The Buena Vista mine …

The Klau Mine is a mercury mine located in San Luis Obispo county, California at an elevation of 1,152 feet. About the MRDS Data: All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System.

The Klau/Buena Vista Mine consists of two abandoned mercury mine sites (Klau and Buena Vista) that are located on adjacent properties on a northwest-southeast ridge of the Santa Lucia Range in the California coastal mountains.

2006年4月27日 · The Klau/Buena Vista Mine in the Adelaide area near Paso Robles has now been declared a federal Superfund site, after years of mercury pollution of Las Tablas Creek and Lake Nacimiento. The U.S. EPA has already removed some contaminated materials during emergency action to stabilize the old mine site a few years ago.

(San Francisco, Calif. -- 04/19/2006) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the Klau/Buena Vista Mine outside Paso Robles, Calif. as a federal Superfund site today, which allows the agency to address the long-term cleanup of mercury contamination.

(PHA) for the Klau and Buena Vista Mines, San Luis Obispo County, California. The Klau and Buena Vista Mines are located about 12 miles west of Paso Robles, at the intersection of Cypress Mountain Road and Klau Mine Road. The mines cover about 250 acres, including 5 miles of underground workings, approximately 300,000 tons of mine tailings,