Lee Love on thu 9 nov 06
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On 11/9/06, Frances Howard wrote:
> findings, tiny yellow flecks in tiny vials. Sadly I am afraid that Lee is
> right, and reality is a flattened landscape with mercury polluted streams,
> definitely a 5 million to one impact. I must say though, that I prefer
> your scenario, would that it were so!
Phil needs to read the book (but he should start with the first
one: Guns, Germs, and Steel ;^) ):
http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0143036556/
The original question was about the impact of barium on the
environment. Really, it is more at the mining point than anything
to do with the use by potters.
Diamond's experience is with mines is in Montana, where mining
waste is destroying the ground water. They have 20,000 abandoned
mines there. Arsenic ends up in the ground water from runoff from the
waste tailings.
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Lee in Mashiko, Japan
http://potters.blogspot.com/
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
"When we all do better. We ALL do better." -Paul Wellstone
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