by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 2, 2021 | Gold Mining
Impact of thousands of wildcat gold miners shown as president Jair Bolsonaro is accused of trying to promote their illegal work Rare and disturbing aerial photographs have laid bare the devastation being inflicted on Brazil’s largest reserve for indigenous...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 6, 2021 | Gold Mining
I am a retired mining engineer (B.S.; M.S.; P.E.) living on a small farm in Rockingham County Virginia. I got out of the mining industry in 1985 for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the environmental damage mining causes. I have worked in underground...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources, Regulatory Permit Process, Video & Audio
This post has excellent coverage by 2 videos and Planning Commission report. A short video on the Colorado campaign to ban gold mining. And Mining 101 by Earthworks. Alexa Massey, for the Farmville Herald continues to do excellent reporting, making sense out of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 28, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources
Metal mining provides us with materials essential for modern life. But mining also devastates communities, clean water and the environment. Negative impacts of today’s metal mines Massive landslide at the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah. Photo: Deseret News. Destroyed...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 23, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources
The Farmville Herald, October 21, 2020 “Buckingham – There’s gold in them thar hills” Good coverage! Read here. Check out Sean Tubb’s podcast Charlottesville Community Engagement – October 13, 2020: Gold mining in Buckingham;...
