Today we visited a gold mine. According to our guide, the mine was in operation for 25 years but is closed now and in the reclamation phase. It is a strip-mine where literally a mountain was moved and another created from the tailings to produce precious few ounces of gold. There´s a lake where the mountain used to be.
If our guide is to be beleived, this is one of the most environmentally appropriate mines anywhere in the world. They release no contaminated water into the ground or the river and they bury their contaminated solid wastes so they won´t ever leach into the surrounding soil.
We have another Rotary meeting tonight, and then the District Conference starts Friday. All of us are looking forward to seeing again many of the friends we´ve met in the past month, but we
suddenly seem to be counting the days until we board our airplane home.
The district conference was bitter sweet for us when our GSE team visited Turkey. We got to relive our visits with amazing host families and Rotarians - knowing that this was the end of an experience that can never be fully explained to our friends and families back home.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy yourselves at the District Conference. Take notes, your next "performance" will be at our District Conference on Sunday, March 18, 2012 at The Homestead. I'll send you a reminder!