All the cyanide from processing the gold probably leaked into the water and killed the fish
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| Author: | Simo [ Oct 29th, '10, 13:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
I read this quote from Jessy posted on Rupes "Aquaponics exposure in the Illawarra" thread Quote: Now all I need to do is convice a mining camp to set up AP for fresh fuit and vegies....That would be Awse And it got me thinking about and aquaculture trial they were planning on the "Granny Smith" gold mine: See link http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s58448.htm I'm not sure how it went or if it is still going? Anyone know any thing about it? OBO? Gnash? |
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| Author: | chillidude [ Oct 29th, '10, 14:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
I haven't heard of anything going on out there - either from Uni or industry people. |
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| Author: | Simo [ Oct 29th, '10, 14:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
All the cyanide from processing the gold probably leaked into the water and killed the fish
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| Author: | Troutman [ Oct 29th, '10, 14:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
There doing it out the back of Collie using water from old coal mine voids. |
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| Author: | chillidude [ Oct 29th, '10, 14:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
Yeah, I know about that one - have been talking to Trevor Blinco about it. But nothing in the goldfields. |
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| Author: | gnash06 [ Oct 29th, '10, 14:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
Simo wrote: I read this quote from Jessy posted on Rupes "Aquaponics exposure in the Illawarra" thread Quote: Now all I need to do is convice a mining camp to set up AP for fresh fuit and vegies....That would be Awse And it got me thinking about and aquaculture trial they were planning on the "Granny Smith" gold mine: See link http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s58448.htm I'm not sure how it went or if it is still going? Anyone know any thing about it? OBO? Gnash? Never heard anything about it  but i do know some of the old pits around bardoc etc have yabbies and some even have marron 
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| Author: | Burnsy [ Oct 29th, '10, 16:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
I use to be an enviro out there (Inspector for DOME) and the fish farming experiment was pretty much Rory Lamonts baby so it probably went by the wayside when he left. He had a lot of good ideas about using mining rehab money for comunity type projects like that instead of wasting millions reseeding waste rock dumps that are just going to do whatever mother nature wants them to do over the next 1000 years. I seem to recall he left and went travelling so don't know what he is up to now, he was a good bloke. |
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| Author: | Outbackozzie [ Oct 29th, '10, 18:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
Yeah, It does not work too well on modern sorts of pits, there is too much contamination in them, 50 year old ones are ok though. Most of the water in the southern goldfields is too salty for anything to grow. |
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| Author: | gnash06 [ Oct 29th, '10, 19:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
+1 , the bore water on KCGM's bore field is 7 X plus sea water so imagine that seeping into a pit 
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| Author: | Dave Donley [ Oct 29th, '10, 21:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
Can't really contribute much except this interesting clip from RadioLab, about geese, toxic copper mines, and bioremediation: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jun/28/eve ... aid-plans/ |
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| Author: | earthbound [ Oct 31st, '10, 12:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
chillidude wrote: Yeah, I know about that one - have been talking to Trevor Blinco about it. But nothing in the goldfields. What is Trevor up to CD? He mentioned a year or so ago that he was going to supply fingerling in the metro area, do you know if he's still planning to do this? |
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| Author: | chillidude [ Oct 31st, '10, 12:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
Yeah EB - Trevor is the guy who bought the property at Gingin. |
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| Author: | Troutman [ Oct 31st, '10, 13:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
Wonder if he got approval to farm the Redfin and Murray Cod?? |
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| Author: | freoboy [ Oct 31st, '10, 18:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
i did some research on this . . here is some papers for those that are interested http://www.springerlink.com/content/43241663110np812/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/y5021480u1788277/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/y5021480u1788277/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... x/abstract |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Oct 31st, '10, 19:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Goldfields fish farming in disused mine pits???? |
Unless you're registered... you'll only be able to see abridged extracts of the papers... |
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