…  of the most poisoned water in Maryland flows out of a hillside here, its color like Coca-Cola and its acidity …  is an abandoned coal mine, one of more than 150 in western Maryland that leak groundwater tainted with acid and dissolved metals. In …  steroids,” said Joe Mills, an official with the Maryland Bureau of Mines. As the mine water flowed to the North Branch of the Potomac …

…  Coal LLC is closing its Maryland mining operations, but that doesn’t mean the company is pulling …  County, and Mettiki’s main office will remain in Maryland. Mining, Schad said, will continue in much the same way as it has …  to fulfilling its requirements through the Maryland Bureau of Mines and to the people in the surrounding Gorman and Table Rock …