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Gold Prospecting
Prospecting Rules & Regulations
Prospects dim for fossickers - The Age newspaper article.
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<blockquote data-quote="colinm_au" data-source="post: 81954" data-attributes="member: 3179"><p>My reading of the VEAC REPORT is that Water Authorities are concerned with the effects of sluicing on water quality...</p><p>Disturbing stream bed sediments is seen as having the potential to increase mercury, arsenic and lead levels as well as affecting turbidity blah blah </p><p></p><p>This needs to be countered by the reality that disturbance of stream beds by prospectors is statistically insignificant compared to that of nature ie. Flooding.</p><p></p><p>The impacts of farming, land clearing, logging and other extractive industries on water quality need to be made the focus NOT us little prospectors!</p><p></p><p>Our prospecting brothers in the US are fighting the same battles ... And unfortunately losing</p><p></p><p>The environmental movement has become like many charities, a vehicle for a few individuals to profit from while they fight issues like this and ignore the real issues...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="colinm_au, post: 81954, member: 3179"] My reading of the VEAC REPORT is that Water Authorities are concerned with the effects of sluicing on water quality... Disturbing stream bed sediments is seen as having the potential to increase mercury, arsenic and lead levels as well as affecting turbidity blah blah This needs to be countered by the reality that disturbance of stream beds by prospectors is statistically insignificant compared to that of nature ie. Flooding. The impacts of farming, land clearing, logging and other extractive industries on water quality need to be made the focus NOT us little prospectors! Our prospecting brothers in the US are fighting the same battles ... And unfortunately losing The environmental movement has become like many charities, a vehicle for a few individuals to profit from while they fight issues like this and ignore the real issues... [/QUOTE]
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Prospecting Rules & Regulations
Prospects dim for fossickers - The Age newspaper article.
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