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Ask The Experts: Bench Top Crushers
August 2010 by Chris Ralph

BLM Proposed Rule Making Affects Mining Claims
In this proposed rule, BLM is seeking to amend regulations to respond to a recent law that continues to require claimants to pay location and maintenance fees on unpatented mining claims or sites and to provide annual maintenance fee waivers to small miners until September 30, 2001.
Ask The Experts—How do you amend a placer claim?
Q: How do you amend a placer claim?
PLP Update: A Huge Win for Miners
PLP cannot understate the importance of this legal decision in our present battles with the political powers of the California swamp.
Canyon Resources Offers to Sell Mineral Rights
Canyon Resources Corporation recently offered to let environmental groups buy the mineral rights under nearly a million acres of land in western Montana.
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