Just back from there  Placer mining is a messy environmentally destructive process no doubt about it. Article in the Whitehorse Star, Sept. 10, about a miner being fined 4,500. for several charges relating to allowing oil to leak out of a dismantled bulldozer. Seems a pittance. Yukon is built on mining and they never forget it. You never get to see the scope of the environmental damage on those Reality shows.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north...fine-1.4810540
Grizz
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John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
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