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Gold Rush 1848 1860 Mining Techniques Picture This

A study of the mining techniques used during the California Gold Rush reveals more than just information of how to extract gold from the earth The various types of mining techniques also show the cultural melting pot that was then and is now California and they reveal the myth behind the history of the Gold Rush

Mercury pollution linked to illegal gold mining in Peru

A new study of mercury contamination in fish and humans in the Peruvian jungle highly troubled by illegal gold mining found unsafe levels of the toxic metal in almost 80% of adults and 60% of fish sold at local markets The analysis conducted in Peru s southeastern region of Madre de Dios by

South Africa has failed to protect locals from gold mine

South Africa has failed to address the adverse environmental and health effects of more than 130 years of gold mining in and around Johannesburg a new report from Harvard Law School shows According to its International Human Rights Clinic IHRC successive administrations including the current

Gold Desert

There are three types of gold mining The gold is then electrolytically recovered from solution and poured into ingots Gold is also a byproduct ecology