Yes, I know. I erred when I forgot the quote marks: “Wasteland.”
Many years ago a couple of people I know found a spot loaded with “oakley stone” which is a layered quartzite formation of some really nice flagstone. They made applications to the blm to mine it. Denied denied denied. They found out later the blm guy gave the rights to a buddy.
I can’t begin to tell you how many tons of rock we have hauled out of there over the last four decades. Eff the blm.