Letter to the editor: Supervisors should OK ordinance opposing gold mining
Santoshi Young: As a new householder and new mom living in Buckingham County, I am concerned about what the future holds for my family. And when I hear about the potential harms of possible gold mining, I get really scared. After hearing the two experts at the...
Letters to the editor: Speak up! Say NO! to new gold mining in Virginia!
Photo: Cyanide 'pool'! Cyanide spill in Turkey highlights environmental toll of mining Heidi Dhivya Berthoud: There are over 70 abandoned metallic mines in Buckingham alone, all loaded with mercury, as that was used to process gold in the 1800s. Why would we let...
Letter to the editor: Have you been heard?
Kenda Hanuman: Thank you for the May 20 Opinion announcing the public listening session on gold mining. I was impressed on May 25 by the two hours of comments—all against industrial scale gold mining! The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee now has listened...
LTE: National Academies of Sciences gold study listening session May 25
Nelson Bailey: Thanks to Erica Schoenberger for the excellent article (5/10/22) about risks and rewards of gold mining in our area. She states that the principal risks are environmental. These include acid mine drainage, cyanide spills and the failure of tailings...
LTE: Protect Buckingham County Water
Joseph Jeeva Abbate: Cyanide, Mercury, Arsenic…these poisonous chemicals are part of gold ore processing and are a component of every Gold Mine of any type. Do you want to drink these deadly poisons? Do you want these toxins leaching or spilling into our creeks,...
Letter to the editor: Gold mining, the environment and environmental justice
Erica Schoenberger: Buckingham County faces the prospect of a gold mine within its borders. Many of the county’s residents are opposed to it. Virginia has established a working group and also enlisted the help of the National Academy of Sciences to examine the...
Letter to the editor: Say no to gold mining in Buckingham
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”. This quote has been attributed to Chief Seattle, Antoine de St. Exupery, Ralph Waldo Emerson and David Bower. The author is not as important as the wisdom and message it conveys. We...
Letter: Another thought on mining
More people are hearing about the fact that there is a streak of gold running through Buckingham County, and are growing concerned. Not many people know that before the California gold rush much of the gold mined in our country came from Buckingham County. Back then...
Letter: Gold Mining In Virginia?
Modern open pit gold mining of low grade ore is one of the most polluting mining activities there is. Recent studies have documented that more than 90% of gold mines that are near underground or surface water cause contamination of that water. Many open pit gold mines...
LTE: Concerned people, step up and protect our beautiful county!
Harvey Shelton: "Aston Bay, a Canadian gold mining exploratory company, is looking for gold in several locations, including my neighborhood. Red Chris mine, BC, waste storage, (aka tailings pond), Garth Lenz, the Narwhal This isn’t old time panning for gold. It’s...
