:55:01
piled up from
the Silver City glory days.
:55:04
Looked like a pile oftrash rock...
:55:08
but ifyou could process it
on a large enough scale-
:55:11
I'm talking about bulldozers
the size ofbattleships-
:55:15
you could make a fortune.
:55:17
Providing jobs for
the economically depressed.
:55:21
A few, sure.
:55:23
But then we started getting
nasty pH readings...
:55:27
from the watershed
all around them.
:55:29
Started getting
fish die-off...
:55:32
heavy metal residue.
:55:34
The company said it was from the old mine
shafts in these mountains around them.
:55:38
There was nothing
they could do about it.
:55:40
Not true?.
:55:41
Theywere concentrating the gold
in these huge leach piles...
:55:46
and then dumping
cyanide solution on them.
:55:48
- They used cyanide?.
- Sodium cyanide.
:55:51
It's a lixiviate.
:55:54
Basic chemistry.
:55:56
Smells like apricots
for miles around.
:55:59
I had an informant inside.
:56:03
Or I thought I did.
:56:06
Esparza- thatwas his name.
:56:09
Vincent Esparza.
:56:11
He told me theywere pushing
all the contaminants to one side.
:56:15
No treatment,
no containment.
:56:17
Just leaving it out there
forthe elements.
:56:19
And thatwas what's getting
into ourwater system.
:56:24
He even helped me plan
my surprise inspection.
:56:29
But when I got there...
:56:32
nothing but a bunch
of empty pits...
:56:36
and a workforce
with their lips buttoned.
:56:44
I felt like an idiot.
:56:46
I'd brought the press,
photographers.
:56:49
And your inside man, Esparza?.
:56:52
Gone with the wind. They said
he'd been fired months earlier.
:56:56
You got sandbagged.
:56:58
Benteen, he doesn't take any prisoners.