What is this satellite image looking at? If you guessed “a large pile of worms” you’d be wrong – but not that wrong. It is unremediated dredge tailings aka mining waste. Dawson City, Yukon, was the capital of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s. At first the gold rush was individual entrepreneurs with their pans and their small stakes on the river. But by the 1920s, gold mining in the Yukon had become big industry. And big industry comes with big waste.
Now, Dawson City is looking to get some of its unremediated dredge tailings made a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site. They’re being reasonable though. Dawson City doesn’t want all of the tailings protected, just “a representative sample.”
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