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Afterthought Mine, located in Shasta County , California , has been spewing metals and highly acidic water into a nearby creek that feeds the Sacramento River since the 1950s .
The Environmental Protection Agency found that chemicals have been flowing out of the shaft at up to 1,200 times the limit of what is deemed safe.
The mine was developed in 1862 and shut down in 1952 , but the effects of extracting minerals still linger to this day .
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