For the next half-decade, Humboldt worked as a mine inspector for the Prussian government.
"It's always been a game of cat and mouse," said Maurice Mullins, who worked as a federal mine inspector for 32 years before retiring in 2003.
Davie Ransdell, a former surface mine inspector for the state of Kentucky, said the repeal was "beyond disappointing" because it risks water quality and eliminates jobs that could have been generated to help clean up mines.
Many modern mines in developed countries including U.S. sites in states such as Montana, Idaho, and Alaska are getting better at mitigating the environmental risks posed by mines, says Jim Kuipers, an independent mining consultant and mining facility inspector for Kuipers and Associates LLC of Butte, Montana.
He ran for state mining inspector on the Libertarian ticket in 1982, getting 5percentt of the vote.
The agency acknowledged that the inspector had incorrectly dated the documents, and the mining inspector was unable to explain why January and February dates were on documents for an inspection that began in late May.
Sohlberg's father was a mining inspector, and let Linnaeus visit the mines near Falun.
In 2010, mining inspectors found that uranium from Cotter's closed Schwartzwalder mine contaminated a creek flowing into a local reservoir.
Bruce Dial, a former federal mine inspector, said it was possible that the minors had encountered carbon monoxide that had lingered for years from previous mining operations.
STANLEY STURGILL Lynch, Ky., March 3 , 2012The writer is a retired coal miner and former federal coal mine inspector.
