When out searching for gold, how many of you are conscious of your impact on the Environment? What are some techniques you use to reduce this impact?
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@Rocksy- someone's gotta say, welcome to the forums... don't let the crusty old miners get to ya.
we're all a bit irked.
The thread is yours.
There's no need to try to explain myself or the intent of the post further.
If your waiting for me to apologize, keep waiting.
Strike 1. Five minutes of research here would have shown you that this subject is a very sore spot for all of us. Normally I wouldn't tell a newbie to search and we are typically newbie friendly around here, but walking into the lion's den and kicking the lion in a sore spot while expecting NOT to get bite is a typical eco freak thing so they can cry foul and get to play the sympathy card.
Strike 2. So you don't personally like large open pit mines? Here's a news flash. I WORK IN ONE OF THOSE LARGE OPEN PIT MINES. Mining puts food on my table and keeps a roof over my family's heads. And I will NEVER again hear my children or grandchildren cry from hunger because a holier than thou eco freak piece of trash decided their right to their beliefs outweighs my right to feed and take care of my family. There are millions of acres of wilderness for them to go get their jollies off, leave my mining areas alone.
Strike 3. Who's the one getting butt hurt now? Didn't get your way so your going to take your bat and ball and go home? Another typical eco freak tactic.
I've spent nearly $100,000 over the past 8 years on an education to fight back against the crap the eco freaks call science. If we were back in the 1600's, they would be burned at the stake for witchcraft. A full 90% of what they tout is 100% pure crap designed to play on people's heart strings.
Head over to the dredging forum and read this thread: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/d...y-removal-project-crosses-another-hurdle.html Our dredges recover 98% plus of the elemental mercury in the rivers. The equipment they pan to use recovers only 95% of the mercury. Yet we are the ones called destructive and polluting the rivers with methyl mercury. Which by the way, forms an unbreakable bond, by any natural means, with the selenium also commonly found in the same rivers so the methyl mercury becomes non-toxic.
The EPA can dump over 3 million gallons of toxic, heavy metal laden water in a river and claim it was okay as there was no impact, yet a mine I was working at spilled a 55 gallon barrel of oil and had a withdrawal order issued that shut them down permanently even though the cleanup process was nearly complete when the EPA decided to grace us with their presence 6 DAYS after it was reported.
You want mitigation? How many portals and shafts have the eco freaks closed? I know how many I have closed. Yet I am the one who gets vilified because I choose to make an honest living instead of paying on people's emotions like a common thief.
When out searching for gold, how many of you are conscious of your impact on the Environment? What are some techniques you use to reduce this impact?
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