Society and sediment in the Mining Rivers of California ...
· Tailings from metal mining have choked rivers in the Old World for millennia (Agricola 1950; Foulds et al. 2014; Macklin and Lewin 2018), and from the sixteenth century largescale mining and its tailings spread to the New World as well (HudsonEdwards et al. 2001).Industrial processes in the nineteenth century became more efficient and produced .