The legislature of the state of California has passed a new law to limit many of the gold-panning activities here. The Indian reservations don’t like the gold panners on the land where they deal drugs and other illegal activities so they asked their allies in the legislature to write a new law in the name of environMENTALism.
This “state” is so hosed...
The legislature of the state of California has passed a new law to limit many of the gold-panning activities here. <<<
It has happened in other states, I was active in the mining world for years, fought it to no avail, for the ‘elite’ will always win.
If you take the old Gov. issued maps showing actual mineral deposits [ in Arizona, my knowledge area], and lay a Wilderness study Area map over it, you will find the minerals have been taken out of circulation, just as clinton did the coal in Utah.
There is a clause in the Wilderness bill that said after a 20 year period, you could petition Congress to have an area released for mining.
There is also a clause that allows the big companies to maintain their claims on minerals and oil, in the Wilderness areas.
When I questioned why? How?, I was told they could afford to hire and use the latest inventions and not go on the ground, so the area was not disturbed.
Near Lake Mead, in Az, homes were bought by the gov and tore down, so they could call it a wilderness area.
I went to a protest meeting for the homes, an eye opener, folks had bought the land 20 years before for retirement and were of an age to retire, 20 years of building, with a view of the lake, not lake front property and not within walking distance, just on a flat mountain top over looking the lake.
They lost their homes.
One day, when some of the population dies off and it gets down to just a few of the elite and the slaves to serve them, they will open the mining areas and truly be rich.
My opinion.