There's Gold In Them Thar Glacier

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From my experience with the rivers in California, I feel everyone should be looking at what dredging and mining has done to California rivers and how the fish population has been affected and the answer, environmentally, should be a very clear No. They have stopped all gold mining in CA for a reason and to spoil a Wild and Scenic river, like Montana's Flathead, would be a colossal mistake. Gold or no gold...we have to protect what's left AND some of the most beautiful fish I have ever seen populate the Flathead...like they don't have enough trouble with climate change, let's not pollute their river!

If this Gold was in the USA I can bet ten times over there would already be a mine there with a huge corporation much bigger than any small Canadian group backing it.

You can write to

Premier Gordon Campbell, Box 9041, Station Prov Gov, Victoria, BC, V8W 9E1

to tell him how you feel about it. I'm going to, this needs to stop.

Not enough information provided in the article for much intelligent comment. The find seems more than rich enough to support the idea of mining it. That's about all that can be said, other than the obvious bits about leach pits, scars upon the earth, and so forth.

Note to those claiming gold has no industrial uses--you're way off base. Gold has very many industrial uses, actually, and there is no obvious alternative for some of them.

That all said, here's my take: Given the rapidly diminishing amount of unspoiled lands, I'm in favor of the idea of occasionally just leaving things alone. I simply do not agree that we need to squeeze every last drop of every last resource out of every last rock. To do so merely postpones the day of reckoning--what do we do when we're done? Well, I figure if we slow down the rate at which we're despoiling the earth, and permanently set aside some reserves, parks, and the like, at least we'll have something beautiful to look at when we run out of stuff to dig for, instead of an earth covered by pock-marks and scars.

But, my take on human nature also tells me I'm wasting my breath....

There are apparently no "safe" or "environmentally friendly" ways to mine gold because of large scale earth extractions and processing, plus use of cyanide to extract the gold, and finally the need for large waste-water holding pits that must be completely contained so that they don't leach poisons into the ground and water systems. There are mines proposed both here and in the Bristol Bay headwaters in Alaska. It will take a concerted fight to stop either of them, so please write your congressmen and senators to alert them! The mines are all about the money, and do not take into account the value of the existing pristine environments that will be affected by mining!

rather than dig for more gold in enviromentally protected areas, why not recycle gold , such as jewelry, held by people, kept in homes of gold buyers.Most people with the price of gold as high as it is now, could use the money they would receive from selling their gold.

this is sad but typical, we all know the miners will take over and ruin not only a great place for us to enjoy but also precious lands that the animals need to live up there.

Gold has no industrial use in this world and the only real use it has ever had in this world is for jewelry or as currency. Therefore to mine gold at the expense of our environment is ludicrous! After all, what is more beautiful; Glacier National Park or a piece of gold?

As a property owner in Galcier National Park's Apgar Village I am concerd by Max Resource Corp.'s discovery. I beleive that we have an obligation to ensure that this mining operation follows the law and the company is held accountable for the actions of its employees and leaders. I am not sure how this will affect the Flathead Rivers that surround Glacier but I am certain there is enough strength in our community to shut down any action that would affect this river system. If the statistics on the discovery are valid then there will be no stopping this group. The value of gold is soaring to ridicluous levels, especically given that is a rock. We live in a strange world! Please visit Glacier, get off the road and take a hike!!

The headline of this article is misleading, as there is no gold within the rocks of Glacier (I was the parks paleontologist and geologist in 2005). Mining outside of the park can harm the north fork of the Flathead river and increase the sediment loads it carries, which can affect the park, so this must be taken into consideration. I would prefer they did not mine at all, but if they do, it could be done in a manner safer for the surrounding environment (but it will be expensive, so they probably would not go that route).

The Columbia river starts in Canada and flows through the United States. WE...WE have to share it, just a thought?.

Corporations are made up of people. Not all corporations are blind to the need for protecting the environment.Corporations also provide jobs for people and contribute to the local and federal economies through taxes. All mining is not evil if is done properly.

This is in Canada true but will the every day small people get anything ($) from all this screwing up mother earth. NO! Only the RICH who don't care about us and our lands. Wake up it might be to late because we wait too late or say nothing at all.

Canadian- Potential environmental damage like this is everyone's business. We are citizens of the Earth and need to start behaving as such. As Mikw said this is an INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK. Lets not let national pride get in the way of doing the right thing.

Canadian- Potential environmental damage like this is everyone's business. We are citizens of the Earth and need to start behaving as such. As Mikw said this is an INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK. Lets not let national pride get in the way of doing the right thing.

We definitely need to stop this gold mining in such a sensitive and ecologically necessary area. The gold is not more precious than maintaining what's left of our wilderness areas and the numerous precious resources within.

Dear Canadian...protecting the environment is not up to each country..it's up to all mankind..I'm sorry but if im your neighbor and you stop cleaning your apartment and I start smelling something weird it's my OBLIGATION to tell you something..even if it's your own apartment..

Paul Swaekauski,

The picture is of St. Mary Lake with Wild Goose Island in Glacier NP. Probably the most phototgraphed scene in Glacier.

I spent eight days in the backcountry in Glacier in September doing the Great Northern Loop.

The river does not "flow into the world's first international peace park." I don't see how this has a direct effect on Glacier NP, much less Waterton, which sits on the other side of the Continental Divide. If mining does commence, then the mining company needs to be held to the law to ensure that environmental degredation does not occur in the watershed.

We can't have a NIMBY attitude about all extractive industries. It is better if it is our friends to the north that we depend on for gold as opposed to some much less friendly countries.

And what do you think the environmental record is in China for extracting gold? In 2008, it was the largest producer of gold.