Contamination from California Gold Rush keeps cropping up

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 20:00 in Earth & Climate

An unintended legacy of California’s gold rush, which began in 1848, endures today in the form of mercury-laden sediment. New research by Michael Singer, associate researcher at UC Santa...

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