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"Few industries have prospered so rapidly as alluvial gold dredging; whilst twenty-odd years ago there were only a few rudimentary attempts, it is now a prosperous industry contributing each day to global gold production" A. Bordeaux, 1908.
"Dredging is certainly one of the most serious and most interesting industrial experiments to have...
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By Pierre Rostan, Bureau d’Études Géologiques TETHYS
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What environmental impact does it have ?
How can sites be regenerated ?
French Guiana has considerable gold potential. The discovery of gold around 1850 resulted in a "gold rush" lasting nearly a century with intense gold mining activity across much of the territory. And then the "gold fever" subsided.
But since the...
Sunday8 April2012
By Alain Coppel (ONF), Stephane Guitet (ONF) , Olivier Brunaux (ONF), Eudoxie Jantet (Atelier Aymara), Delphine Miau (CAEX GEO), Nicolas Miramond (DIREN).
8 April 2012
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The tale of a few grams of gold and how it passes from a covert placer mine to Brazil through the informal economy before ending up in a jewellers’ via legal channels.
Since the early 2000s the price of gold on international markets has shot up. The price of the precious...
Sunday8 April2012