actual link for the Telegraph article is:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8763213/Gold-rush-returns-to-California.html
On 15 September 2011 11:58, Christopher J Williams <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Gold mining is returning to California as the price of precious metals
> soars. The Sutter Gold Mining Co is to reopen the Lincoln Mine near Highway
> 49,
> until recently a tourist attraction. It is expected to extract 1,800
> ounces of gold a month and create a hundred jobs. Another company plans
> to
> reopen a site sixty miles to the north, and the Briggs Mine on the western
> border of Death Valley reopened in 2009. Mining for gold in California
> largely
> dried up after the Second World War.
>
> Environmentalists have raised concerns about a resumption of mining, saying
> it could lead to pollution. They believe the area should concentrate
> instead on attracting tourists.
>
> Daily Telegraph, 15 September 2011, p 20. Shortened version on Telegraph
> website at _http://www.telegraph.co.uk/_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) .
>
>
> Christopher J Williams, 65 Stancliffe Avenue, Marford, Wrexham LL12 8LN
>
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