Posted on 02/02/2018 5:48:25 AM PST by mikelets456
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw federal protections from millions of acres of Utah wilderness will reopen much of the iconic terrain to gold, silver, copper, and uranium land claims under a Wild West-era mining law, according to federal officials.Starting at 6 a.m. on Feb. 2 – the moment Trump’s proclamation reducing the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments takes effect – private citizens and companies will be allowed to stake claims for hard rock mining in a process governed by the General Mining Law of 1872, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
The process for staking a claim remains much as it did during the Gold Rush: A prospector hammers four poles into the ground corresponding to the four points of a parcel that can be as big as 20 acres, and attaches a written description of the claim onto one of them. A prospector then has 30 days to record the claim at the local BLM office.
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Minerals will Make America Great Again.
The land does NOT belong to the federal government...give it back to the states as the citizens of said states know how to best take care or use it.
Aren’t batteries made out of air?
“...give it back to the states...”
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment - no washington bureaucrat will ever care for land like those who live there.
However, the land actually is owned by the feds. When the large western states joined the Union they had to establish titles to the land. What they didn’t want, the gummint had title to.
We’ve camped and hiked all over southern Utah; it’s ruggedly beautiful and awe-inspiring. There are many archaeological sites and petroglyphs. The BLM is considered a four-letter word.
He's methodical.
I hear there’s a massive gold vein directly under Mitt Romney’s house...
Actually it’s a coal vein. It would be a shame if it somehow caught on fire and began a years-long burn. ;-)
I thought that they formed every time someone had “like, positive waves, man.”
Back in 1955, we lived at MOAB Utah. Every inch of land was “claimed” and had mining claims all over the area. Even Dead Horse Point had cairns of rocks with fruit jars inside holding the claim.
Last time I was there, 2015, all the cairns had disappeared. Not a pile of rocks anywhere.
Then there is all that coal on Kaiparowits Plateau just begging to be mined till Clinton seized the land for a “National Monument”.
Mormons will love him just for opening more land to housing construction.
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