Red Gold is the award-winning story about the debate in Alaska communities about risks to the famous Bristol Bay salmon run from one of the largest open pit cyanide leach gold mines ever proposed. The 55-minute documentary took home top honors at BANFF and Mountainfilm Festivals in 2008, winning Audience Choice Best Film. An update on the Atlanta Gold mine proposed in the headwaters of the Boise River will follow.

Red Gold is presented by Idaho Families for Clean Water, a coalition of conservation groups and individuals working to protect the Boise River from mining activities in the Boise River watershed.

Check out the trailer at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqrpbgeeyeE

Red Gold tickets are $10 and will be available in advance at The Flicks or by contacting Theresa Bichsel at 208-345-6942 x 27 or tbichsel@wildidaho.org. The Boise River is More Precious Than Gold!

Now Atlanta Gold wants to complete their mining operation above Elk City in Idaho? I plan on attending the screening of this film at the flicks and if anyone wants to go with me I will be more than happy to pick them up. We cannot allow this type of mining facility in Idaho, Alaska or any other eco-fragile state. Why not mine over in New Jersey or Compton California?

If you go out to the Idaho Conservation League website there are pictures from an arsenic leak straight out of an already operating Atlanta Gold mine.

http://www.wildidaho.org/update2.php