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Buckingham Planning Commission hear from County attorney on local metallic mining options

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 19, 2023 | Gold Mining

Buckingham County attorney EM Wright presented information at a work session on May 15 on options for the Planning Commission to consider for local regulation of metallic mining. Check out this clear coverage by Brian Carlton of the Farmville Herald below.  ...

Cyanide… a discussion on ways to ban its use, and thus halt large scale metallic mining

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 7, 2023 | Gold Mining

The effort at the state level to ban cyanide use in mining was at first very well received. But partisan actions killed it in committee, halting any further possibilities in the 2023 General Assembly to protect us from potential metallic mining. We recently discovered...

FoB Website Ban Gold Mining Page Updates/ Timeline in Brief – starting June 2020

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 3, 2023 | Gold Mining

Timeline continued from the Gold Mining Page: Updates/Timeline in Briefhttps://qou.dls.mybluehost.me/ban-gold-mining/#Updates May 2023 Opportunities for comment: Supervisor meeting M May 8, 6 pm & Planning Commission M May 22, 5 pm. Sign up to comment 5:30-5:55...

DRILLING FOR GOLD OpEd Column: Gold mining in Virginia has the makings of an environmental disaster by Jessica Sims

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 7, 2023 | Gold Mining

In 2020, Buckingham County residents discovered that a mineral exploration company, Aston Bay, had been performing exploratory drilling for gold in their county since the previous year. Why had Aston Bay looked to Virginia as a prospecting location for new,...

George Neall, retired miner, concerned environmentalist, gives commentary on the final SAC report

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 12, 2022 | Gold Mining

George Neall, current farmer, retired miner, has been serving us a steady stream of pertinent information on mining, which has been helpful in educating us to the history and facts of the business. George served on the State Agency Committee (SAC), tasked “to...
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