Comments on: Farming for gold: Using plant crops to remediate soil, remove contaminants, harvest gold, and keep ex-miners employed (UPDATED) http://www.troyangrignon.com/2004/10/24/farming-for-gold-using-plant-crops-to-remediate-soil-remove-contaminants-harvest-gold-and-keep-ex-miners-employed-updated/ Business • Technology • Society • Environment Sun, 16 May 2010 21:41:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anonymous http://www.troyangrignon.com/2004/10/24/farming-for-gold-using-plant-crops-to-remediate-soil-remove-contaminants-harvest-gold-and-keep-ex-miners-employed-updated/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Anonymous Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:53:00 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/2004/10/24/farming-for-gold-using-plant-crops-to-remediate-soil-remove-contaminants-harvest-gold-and-keep-ex-miners-employed-updated/#comment-83 Teck-Cominco's Trail smelter uses a multi-staged reclamation process involving bacterial vats and specific species of vegetation to clean water leaching from waste piles (particularly for arsenic). They, too, harvest the plants for further refinement. This refers to an earlier revision of the process: http://www.zerowaste.ca/articles/column141.html A buddy of mine was heavily involved in an implementation last summer... I will see what other linkage I can dredge up. -Matt Teck-Cominco’s Trail smelter uses a multi-staged reclamation process involving bacterial vats and specific species of vegetation to clean water leaching from waste piles (particularly for arsenic). They, too, harvest the plants for further refinement.

This refers to an earlier revision of the process:

http://www.zerowaste.ca/articles/column141.html

A buddy of mine was heavily involved in an implementation last summer… I will see what other linkage I can dredge up.

-Matt

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