At 10:00 18/01/2011, Keith Nicholls wrote:
>How would the landscape differ between these tailings dams and those
>locations where artisanal mining was carried out by what in South Wales
>was termed "Scouring", building a dam and then releasing the water
>behind to scour away the overburden above the mineral?
The difference should be location. Buddle / tailings dams just below
the dressing floor whereas any dam for a prospecting hush (scouring)
would be above the workings.
Peter
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