Mercury Contamination from Hydraulic Placer Gold Mining
In placer mine operations, loss of mercury during gold recovery was reported to be as high as 30 percent. In the Dutch Flat mining district located in the Sierra Nevada region of California, placer mines processed more than 100,000,000 cubic yards of gold bearing gravel. The placer ore was washed through mercury charged ground sluices and drainage tunnels from 1857 to






































