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‘After 135 years,’ mine bill passes ( Ready for higher energy prices ? )
The Daily Sentinel ^ | November 02, 2007 | GARY HARMON

Posted on 11/03/2007 9:00:40 AM PDT by george76

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To: george76

The Great Divide is what was Federal land and what was already private land when the Mining Law first passed. Most of the land west of the Mississippi is Federal or possibly other Gov’t land and the private people are there by permission, temporarily.


41 posted on 11/03/2007 11:13:45 AM PDT by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: RightWhale

We use to have dozens of private lumber yards and small logging operations. They are almost all gone.

There used to be many family ranchers grazing their cattle and herders pushing their sheep in the forests and fields. Now this is also nearly gone with the feed lots expanding, adding drugs and growth hormones to our feed supply...

Same for tiehacks, hunters, most recreational uses...


42 posted on 11/03/2007 11:52:05 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ikka

Used to be a cheap way to get a nice, large vacation lot on, in or near a National Forest. Many a dirt mine hold a vacation cabin.

DOn’t know if it good or bad - it just is, right now.


43 posted on 11/03/2007 11:56:44 AM PDT by ASOC
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To: RightWhale

Uh, Anaconda Copper essentially ceased to esist when ARCO boiught it out in 1977. Now, BP, ARCO’s owner, likely wishes they never heard the name Anaconda seeing as how big an environmental headache the properties are for them. I am not sure just how Anaconda Gold (Canadian) fits in.


44 posted on 11/03/2007 12:50:36 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

Those are generic names. What company would call itself Rio Tinto except as a cosmic joke on Wyoming?


45 posted on 11/03/2007 1:21:34 PM PDT by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: george76

Bump


46 posted on 11/03/2007 7:56:01 PM PDT by listenhillary (You get more of what you focus on)
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"What effect, if any, would this have on oil and gas drilling on Federal Leases?"
I don't have an answer.
47 posted on 11/03/2007 8:48:50 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Duncan Hunter for POTUS)
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To: george76
Eliminating land patenting eliminates one of the great hopes for privatizing environmental management.

Damn. I had no idea that was in the works.

48 posted on 11/04/2007 6:24:12 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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I would be interesting in hearing you elaborate on this.
Thanks!


49 posted on 11/04/2007 6:25:48 AM PST by listenhillary (You get more of what you focus on)
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To: jsh3180

Yes...I would be surprised if Harry Reid lets this slip through.

I have no commercial interest, but have done recreational prospecting in the past, and don’t want to see that get shut down. Plus, we need to protect our extractive industries, because without them, we have no raw materials to use for making stuff.


50 posted on 11/04/2007 6:27:41 AM PST by B Knotts (Tancredo '08!)
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To: listenhillary
I've been working on such a patent for ten years (still in the process). Click the "Our Patent" link on this page.
51 posted on 11/04/2007 7:01:36 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: george76

What cannot be grown must be mined.


52 posted on 11/05/2007 11:21:24 AM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: Beagle8U

I thought AZ was number one in copper mining. No?


53 posted on 11/05/2007 11:22:51 AM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: ikka
eliminate land patenting

It's probably some UN thing.

54 posted on 11/05/2007 11:24:17 AM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: JimSEA

My husband worked with Magma back in the 90s. All the mines closed when the ‘toon was in office. He arbitrarily shut down mining in Utah with his fake Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. I wonder if the other mining outfits saw the writing on the wall...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/724170/posts


55 posted on 11/05/2007 11:28:31 AM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: george76

Veto bait.


56 posted on 11/05/2007 11:29:59 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion
Yes, AZ is #1 in copper mining. Its hard to find the state by state rankings.

Perhaps I was thinking that Michigan was ranked #1 in copper mining some time in the past?

I know there is a lot of copper in the upper peninsula.

I had read that they have found chunks of pure copper so large they can’t be moved or even cut into chunks they could move.

If I can find that story I’ll post it.

57 posted on 11/05/2007 12:14:21 PM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U

That’s cool! Some of the mines in AZ were so played out that they were considering reclaiming copper from the tailings. More copper in MI would be a great thing.


58 posted on 11/05/2007 12:52:53 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion
All the mines closed when the ‘toon was in office.

I understand from friends that they are trying to develop Superior once again and I wish them all the luck in the world. However, I have little hope for any natural resource industry in the USA just now.

59 posted on 11/05/2007 1:22:14 PM PST by JimSEA
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The problem in Michigan is the Eco-twits don’t want anything mined. A huge chunk of the state is state land and they wont issue mining permits.

A few years ago a guy found a huge chunk of pure copper in lake Superior just off shore. The state wouldn’t give him a permit to salvage it. They said it should just lay on the bottom of the lake!

After about 10 years they gave a museum a permit to move it but the state still owns it.

It weighed 34,000 #!

60 posted on 11/05/2007 1:34:57 PM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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