Gold Dredging removes mercury from waterways

Washington State gives dredgers Quicksilver Award for removing many pounds of MERCURY from local rivers and creeks.

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[tubecat72]

Any idea when the DFG will complete their study in California? SB 670 is crap! Thanks for putting the truth out there.

[GoldrushUniversity]

They are now employing the delay tactic. The latest is they likely will not have the Supplemental Enviornmental Impact Report until Sept. 2011! The ones in charge will not allow any pro-dredging facts to be inserted into the study, even by credible biologists. They are only allowing anti-dredging bias so-called "facts" to be admitted. It would be so refreshing if they would allow everything in and let the truth speak for itself.

[mws123]

they buying that mercury off the prospectors

[GoldrushUniversity]

I believe the prospectors are donating it.

[ridenowmon]

Thanks for your video. This is a good resource when trying to explain the benefits of gold dredging.

[GoldrushUniversity]

You're welcome! The truth needs to get out that dredges actually help clean up the environment, and improve the fish habitat by loosening packed gravels for spawning and creating cool water holes in the river bottom for migrating salmon to rest in. After one winter storm, usually there is virtually no evidence that any dredging occured.

[mrpascalfortier]

Great video, thank you!

[vmelkon]

@skateboy159 Look it up in wikipedia. Its melting point is -38 °C.

[jdawgjayj]

@staydput I'm suprised you say that. You must not dredge much. In bedrock areas where cinnabar is available in abundance naturally it is there. I have cleaned bedrock with gold and mercury amalgam sitting there. More liquid mercury then there was gold. I captured it all and still have it to this day.

[HHammerHeadD]

mercury is released from cinnabar rock outcrops woven into the matrix of the shears of the mountains when they ripped open and rose above water. When ever there are forest fires, lightning strikes, and snow melts, rain, freeze & thaw, and heat release the mercury into the hillsides, and into lower elevations until it settles. every year there is more and more comming down the mountains as gravity pulls it to the rivers via creeks and streams. and more often than not, it is amalgamated with gold

[HHammerHeadD]

A MERCURY RETORT IS SAFER THAN ANY ACID FOR PURIFICATION AS WELL.

WHO IS TEACHING THIS CLASS?

[HHammerHeadD]

what do they give you for your Merc? and where does the merc end up at?

Is this just a donation? STRICKLY VOLUNTARY GIVE AWAY! THATS A LOT OF WORK TO BE GIVING IT AWAY IMHO... THE PRICES OF ALL PRECIOUS METALS HAS GONE UP, AND ON THE OPEN INDUSTRIAL MARKET IT IS UP AS WELL.

WHO IS MAKING PROFIT ON THIS MERC IN THE END? THE STATE OR JUST ANOTHER GIVE AWAY? SOUNDS LIKE A DOUBLE STANDARD TO ME, BUT IF YOU FOLKS WANT TO WORK FOR NOTHING, GO4IT.

[skateboy159]

isnt mercury a liquid till -40?

[crazy8sdrums]

Thank you for the great video!

[TheHarleyhillbilly]

sounds like Jesse Ventura

[SFR1985]

Fantastic documentry supporting small scale dredging with support of the environment.

[TheSneakyboots]

@GoldrushUniversity Those bastards! Sorry, but I don't think there is a politically correct word for those jerks.