Sourcing Pebble gold could be difficult
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 12:00AM 
Yet another jeweler has pledged not to use gold from Pebble.
Trying to keep that pledge is problematic according to a professor at the Colorado School of Mines and the Director of the No Dirty Gold campaign.
Tracing the origin of gold is no easy task, said Pat Taylor, a professor of chemical metallurgy and metallurgical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Typically, when a mine recovers gold it is sent to a refinery. The refined gold is sold as bars, coin or other products.
"To keep track of gold is hard to do," Taylor said. "Typically when a gold mine recovers gold they send it to a refinery and it's largely mixed in one big pot. So how you would identify gold from one mine from any other mine is going to be very difficult."
Scott Cardiff, the No Dirty Gold campaign director, admits that there currently are no mechanisms for jewelers to trace the source of their gold other than to establish an agreement with their suppliers to not use metals from a particular source.
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Reader Comments (2)
Why does this stuff keep going unnoticed, yet one dead steelhead and there are 96 comments? This is the biggest fishing relevant issue on earth and no one has even commented on any of the Pebble Posts. Maybe if it was titled "DEAD STEELHEAD" it would grab your attention.
I all ready follow TU's web page dedicated just to bristol bay. No need to comment here. When there other pages doing pebble beach thing full time. But so you know it's a load of crap with what's going one.