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A 46m aerial view showing the stark contrast of the clear Ogilvie River merging w/ the iron-rusted Engineer Creek along the Dempster Highway north of Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon. Engineer Creek as well as nearby Red Creek easily resemble a massive spill of acid mine drainage however the source is actually natural. The creek gets its colour from iron deposits that have broken to the surface. Specifically, the water becomes jet black after picking up minerals from an exposed seam of black shale, and progressively turns red as it meanders downstream.
The water may not necessarily kill anyone who drinks it, but it fails several basic Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines. Animals have been seen to avoid Engineer & Red Creek, and the rocks along its path are dyed a deep reddish hue by the high-water mark of the contaminated creek. A chemical analysis of the water revealed levels of iron, nickel, and zinc at more than 10 times what geoscientists considered a “normal” Yukon concentration.
Engineer (& Red Creek) have presumably been this way since woolly mammoths walked the area. The Yukon is located in Beringia, one of the few areas of North America not to have been carved up by glaciers in the last ice age, so it remains a unique time capsule of how the continent looked before human settlement.
More info here: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-all-natural-environmental-disaster-the-yukon-creek-that-has-been-dyed-red-by-rust-for-millennia
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