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Criminal

Oct. 21, 2014

Ex-mill superintendent pleads guilty to illegal mine waste disposal

A former mill superintendent has pleaded guilty to charges that he allowed arsenic and lead-laced waste materials from a gold mine to flow into a nearby creek, road and other areas belonging to the Bureau of Land Management.


By Kibkabe Araya


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A former mill superintendent has pleaded guilty to charges that he allowed arsenic and lead-laced waste materials from a gold mine to flow into a nearby creek, road and other areas belonging to the Bureau of Land Management.


Kiedock Kim, 60, of Biggs, worked at the French Gulch Mine in French Gulch in 2006 and 2007. He pleaded guilty last week to felony charges of conspiring to depredate United Sta...

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