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Extensive Colorado gold campaign; Gold mining 101; Planning meeting summary

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources, Regulatory Permit Process, Video & Audio

This post has excellent coverage by 2 videos and Planning Commission report. A short video on the Colorado campaign to ban gold mining. And Mining 101 by Earthworks. Alexa Massey, for the Farmville Herald continues to do excellent reporting, making sense out of...

Get your comments ready for 11/10 Board of Supervisors meeting at 6 pm

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources

Tuesday, November 10 at 6 pm. Our County officials will be discussing changing an ordinance that would allow a Canadian gold mining company to drill in an A-1 agriculturally zoned part of the county. Only the first 20 people will be admitted to the auditorium. You can...

Gold mining: videos of Haile mine, Aston Bay, 2 articles

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources

Flying to Haile Gold Mine April 04 2020, near Kershaw SC, and a little trip back in time along the way with Brian Pittman.  Brian and family, fly directly over the 4,000+ acre gold mine, reaching it at about 5 minutes, but it can be seen from the distance once the...

Mr Barlow goes to Kershaw, SC, home to the Haile open pit gold mine, to meet the neighbors

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources

I drove to Kershaw, South Carolina, on October 28, 2020, where the Haile Gold Mine is located, and spent three days there to find out how the gold mining industry had impacted the town. The mine, owned by the Australian company OceanaGold, had been in full operation...

More resources on gold mining

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 28, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources

Metal mining provides us with materials essential for modern life. But mining also devastates communities, clean water and the environment. Negative impacts of today’s metal mines Massive landslide at the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah. Photo: Deseret News. Destroyed...

Recent media coverage of gold mining in Buckingham

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 23, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources

The Farmville Herald, October 21, 2020 “Buckingham – There’s gold in them thar hills” Good coverage! Read here. Check out Sean Tubb’s podcast Charlottesville Community Engagement – October 13, 2020: Gold mining in Buckingham;...
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