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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