California Gold Prospectors

Gold is out there in the streams and rivers of California, but you can't dredge it out. The Governor put a halt to dredging the streams and rivers of California because of an environmental impact on the wildlife.One thing that they don't understand is that most prospectors here make a living on looking for the gold that lies deep within the gravel of the rivers here.Posting this to California brought an economical breakdown to a hobby and other wages. You can sluice or pan,but your dredges has to be out of the water.

Dredging doesn't cause no environmental problem to the rivers, in fact it takes out the problems that were left by the miners of the past.Mercury contamination in the rivers has been a topic around here.But think of it this, has any of the dredging companies that used the big dredges came backed and corrected their mistakes? I think not. Most bucket dredges used mercury in the extract of the gold from the earth that was dug up.Most of the mercury that didn't absorb the gold might have come out with the tailings.Nobody never tested the tailing piles for mercury residual.

Most hobby dredgers that were working the stream might have came across mercury and taken it out of their dredges and not tossed it back into the river.Why don't they have the same as Oregon,bringing in the mercury that was obtained from the dredging of the river.Just take it in to the EPA, so they can dispose of it properly.They equal involvement of the prospectors and the environmentalists can improve the dredging for gold in California.

I feel like since the price of gold skyrocketed, the Governor of this state is an idiot to stop suction dredging for gold, but allow so many million of gallons of sewage into the rivers and look the other way on that.By the way, there are other slow ways to prospect for dat yeller metal.

So may there be yellow in every pan.

Zionink