Legislation & Regulation
Legislative Update
February 2023 by Jordan Harger
Legislative and Regulatory Update
- Welcome changes in Washington, DC
- Giving power back to the people
Vindication for Montana Veteran Joe Robertson
Under the previous administration, the EPA declared the ditch was a federally-protected waterway, and Robertson needed a federal permit under the Clean Water Act.
Resource Maven
September 2022Stocks have been on a run. The S&P 500 is up 14% from its June low; the NASDAQ 100 is up about 20%. Yet sentiment is dismal.
Oregon Miners Take DEQ to Court, Again
Since 2005, a group representing a handful of Oregon and Washington mining organizations, centered around the Eastern Oregon Mining Association (EOMA) and the Waldo Mining District (WMD), have been actively fighting the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) over their then new “700PM Suction Dredge Mining Permit.”
Protecting Our Access to Public Lands
As prospectors, we cannot just roll over and continue to ignore the shift in public land management from multiple use to national preserve.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Pendley nomination withdrawn but will remain BLM director for now
• Comments needed for Midas Gold project in Idaho
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• New, damning revelations about Biden nominee to head BLM
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Lost and Undiscovered Gold Mines of the East: Why Research is Key!
• Time For Some Desert Gold!
• Explosives delivery Goes Wrong at Australian Mine
• JoJo's Seahorse
• Golden Indicators
• When What You Are Told Becomes Information
Free:
The Bawl Mill
• Downieville Gold Rush Days
• Blast From the Past - September 1950
• ICMJ Visits Colfax, California
• PLP Update
