Originally Posted By: Smalma
If anyone is interested in some information on the potential impacts (both positive and negative) from recreational gold mining you may find the following interesting -

http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/00293/wdfw00293.pdf

On the whole a balanced work with lots of citations from a number of studies supporting the information provided. Those citations would be a good place if anyone wants to look into more detail information. Section 7 provides a nice summary on some of the issues discussed earlier in this thread.

Curt


I was really wondering if the OP was going to bother to check out the WDFW page link I provided to the Gold and Fish pamphlet. If he had done so this article is located immediately below the G&F pamphlet. Guess it wasn't worthy of his effort.
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