Legislative and Regulatory Update

December 2011 by Scott Harn

PLP Update: The Path for Legally Re-Starting Suction Gold Dredge Mining in 2021

June 2020

Present conflicts and realizations having to do with dependence on China have illuminated the fact that suction dredge miners have a vital role to play and are an ignored and untapped domestic resource—until now.

Lawsuit Update From the New 49'ers

December 2012
Many of you are aware that we have been engaged in litigation with anti-mining activists that have been attacking us through the Karuk Tribe of California since 2003. It all started with their lawsuit against the US Forest Service (USFS), challenging that District Rangers do not have the authority to allow small-scale mining activities under a Notice of Intent (NOI) when the Ranger concludes that the mining activity is not likely to create a substantial surface disturbance.

Multiple Use Lands, Symbiotic Relations and Conflict Resolution

April 2016
The automatic discrimination and exclusion of man from nature, like his access and use of the land, presupposes man as a destructive force for change, absent a relative hard look at the natural forces of change. Setting aside lands for non-use does not encourage wise use symbiotic tenets, which man has traditionally formed in his coexistence with nature.

State Lends Help to County in Nevada Road Fight

April 2015
Nevada’s attorney general for the first time is joining a rural county in a 15-year-old legal battle...

MMAC Update

February 2017
One caller wondered why he should be required to join MMAC, asked why MMAC was not a non-profit, and compared it to some kind of extortion attempt. If he had questions like these, I assume there are others with similar questions and I will address them here.

Mining Districts and Community Outreach

December 2016
You have made your presence known with the BLM or Forest Service, placed Mining District signs along the entrance points to your district, and found support with other local miners. But how do you gain popular support?

California Suction Dredging Update

July 2012
Another California Assembly member, Jared Huffman, is attempting to ban dredging in the state on a more permanent basis.

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