Remains of the 19th Century: Deep storage of contaminated hydraulic mining sediment along the Lower Yuba River, California
Since the onset of hydraulic gold mining in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills in 1852, the environmental damage caused by displacement and storage of hydraulic mining sediment (HMS) has been a significant ecological problem downstream. Large volumes of mercury-laden HMS from the Yuba River waters...
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| Language: | English |
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BioOne
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene |
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| Online Access: | https://www.elementascience.org/articles/333 |