Officials asking people to stay away from mysterious orange liquid near Prescott

[Ptah]

WALKER, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- A mysterious orange liquid is showing up in a small Yavapai County town, and officials are asking people to stay away from it. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is trying to identify orange liquid and soils surrounding the former Sheldon Mine in Walker, Arizona, roughly 11 miles from Prescott.

A resident first reported the liquid on Thursday near Sheldon Road and Midnight Snap Lane. ADEQ officials say due to recent heavy rainfall, the substance may be leaking into nearby areas. Residents are asked not to touch it.

The orange liquid was discovered surrounding the former Sheldon Mine in Walker, Arizona, roughly 11 miles from Prescott.(Arizona's Family)

ADEQ, Walker Fire Department, Yavapai County, and the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs are all working to see if the liquid needs to be cleaned up. However, if anyone has come into contact with it and is experiencing health issues, call your doctor as a precaution.

According to the USGS Mineral Resource Data System, the Sheldon Mine was primarily used for copper mining but also had gold, lead, silver, and zinc.

https://www.kold.com/2023/03/31/officials-asking-people-stay-away-mysterious-orange-liquid-near-prescott/

[Kali]

1. gee, I bet warning people to stay away really helps keep the morons from

flocking to it to check it out.

[Ptah]

4. I'll bet Google Maps will send people to a nifty back road.

[Kali]

5. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Frasier Balzov]

2. I swear I thought this was somehow going to be a Trump story.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Someone should make sure traitortrump is not in Arizona.

[happybird]

6. When I lived in WV, several times after hard rain

there were reports of orange foam on the Monongahela River and streams turning orange. Wonder if this is the same type of runoff?

https://energy.wvu.edu/news/2019/03/25/wvu-water-experts-warn-when-it-rains-polluted-mine-drainage-can-pour

[Ptah]

7. Sounds very similar.

[mike_c]

9. yep, it's the same stuff, n/t

[mike_c]

8. looks like "yellow boy," iron hydroxide from acid mine drainage

Nasty stuff in creeks and rivers. Here's a link: https://www.ironcountywatershedcoalition.org/acid-mine-drainage.html

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. Can we inform the GQP there that this is a gift from the gibbon?

And, they must bathe in it to feel the love of Trump? I mean, if the GQP from Wisconsin can imitate a warning system to complain about how they are not the rulers of the universe then surely we can tell all the trumpers that this is a 'blessing' and that they should enter it and baptise themselves in the liquid of Trump, right?

[concretebluetwo]

11. Residue

Residue from Trump's latest meltdown....