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juliaoceania -> RE: California To Outlaw Gold Prospecting (6/6/2011 12:39:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
You should REALLY read the link before you post it
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Up to 4,000 people in California use suction dredging to extract gold.
It involves motorised rigs which act like giant vacuum cleaners, sucking up mud and gravel from the bottom of a watercourse and then using gravity to sort tiny quantities of gold from the rocks and dirt.
A wet dry vacumn that most people own. The law is onerous.
Is it really that hard to understand that we have 4000 operations ongoing, and many more wannabe fly-by-nights with their shop vacs, dredging up our rivers? The salmon population is precarious, and they mean more to me than assholes with gold fever.
If you had spent any time in the river system of California looking at how the ecology of the stream works, you would know that these types of operations do not do damage at the site where the mining occurs, but miles down the river bed.
I grew up in Gold Country, and I grew up knowing quite a bit more than you about river ecology. I also saw the scars from past attempts to use the power of water to extract gold, the scars from hydraulic mining are obscene, and still apparent well over a century after it was done.
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