Mike Thorton

I was really intrigued by his presentation. He did a really good job with informing us about all the tozins in mines. I didnt realize that there was so many dangers to left over gold mines. I have been on field trips to gold mines back in elementary school. I thought they were so cool. But now that i think about it i wonder if our school teachers knew the dangers they were putting us in. I think its realy suprising that kids playing baseball are at risks in some places. I dont eat fish but I dont think after hearing his presentation I ever will. Because fish get the mercury and then we are eating the fish. Which isnt very healthy for us humans. I think we should notify more people about this problem. As we saw in the class no one was familiar with this problem.
He also talked about the there are over 47,000 abandoned across california. There are lots of toxins in these mines. like mercury,lead , arsenic. All these toxins are very dangerous to humans. They mostly affect pregnant women and kids which are the ones we should be most concerned about not harming.