Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I read this quote from Jessy posted on Rupes "Aquaponics exposure in the Illawarra" thread



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?

I haven't heard of anything going on out there - either from Uni or industry people.

All the cyanide from processing the gold probably leaked into the water and killed the fish

There doing it out the back of Collie using water from old coal mine voids.

Yeah, I know about that one - have been talking to Trevor Blinco about it.

But nothing in the goldfields.

Never heard anything about it but i do know some of the old pits around bardoc etc have yabbies and some even have marron

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.

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.

+1 , the bore water on KCGM's bore field is 7 X plus sea water so imagine that seeping into a pit

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/

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?

Yeah EB - Trevor is the guy who bought the property at Gingin.

Wonder if he got approval to farm the Redfin and Murray Cod??

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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