Mercury from Gold Rush still polluting streams

By BETTINA BOXALL

Ongoing erosion could last thousands of years.

THE destructive environmental legacy of Gold Rush mining in the Sierra Nevada could last for thousands of years in the form of ongoing erosion of mercury-laced sediments, according to new research.

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