Bats, cyanide, and gold mining
BATS Magazine
By: Donald R. Clark Jr.
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Abstract
Although the boom days of prospectors and gold nuggets are long gone, modern technology enables gold to continue to be extracted from ore. Unfortunately, the extraction method has often been disastrous for bats and other wildlife, an issue I first became aware of in early 1989. Phone calls from Drs. Merlin Tuttle and Elizabeth Pierson, a BCI member and bat researcher from Berkeley, California, alerted me that bats were dying from apparent cyanide poisoning at gold mines in the western United States.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Bats, cyanide, and gold mining |
| Series title | BATS Magazine |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1991 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bat Conservation International |
| Publisher location | Austin, TX |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 2 p. |
| First page | 17 |
| Last page | 18 |
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