Legislation & Regulation
Legislative and Regulatory Update
December 2012 by Scott Harn
• Increase in claim fees• Impact of recent elections
• Current suction gold dredging status in California
• Parks in Southern California
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Critical minerals a priority
• Montana miners win again
• MSHA backs down
• Environmental groups as foreign agents
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Big banks penalized for rigging gold price
• Mining royalties excluded from reconciliation bill
PLP Update
We now have supporters who are well known and connected in Washington, DC, and who state they will assist us in bypassing lower level staffers and getting us face-to-face meetings with Senators.
Mining Districts and Community Outreach
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?
Oregon Dredge Permit Litigation Update
In other words, just like those that move next to an airport and then complain about the noise, Mr. Riskedahl deliberately went out of his way to “witness and document the effects of suction dredge mining,” and when he found some, he was annoyed by it!
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• More roadblocks to dredging in California
• Two Oregon Sheriffs challenge Forest Service authority
• Gold is money
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• Scams, Scammers and Schemes
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• What's Left Behind
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
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