EPA Chief to Reconsider Paying Claims Over Mine Waste Spill

September 2017 by Associated Press

“We feel that we can clean up an area that has been abandoned after 100 years of mining,” Lyon said.

MMAC & PLP Update -- 2015 Minerals and Mining Regulatory Reform Act

September 2015
Is there any hope for a solution? Yes, there is, and we’ve been working with Public Lands for the People, the Minerals and Mining Advisory Council, attorney James Buchal and others on that solution.

Clarification on Oregon's SB838

August 2014
The 100-yard restriction in SB838 actually applies to all motorized mining for the purpose of extracting gold, silver or any other precious metal that results in the disturbance of vegetation.

MMAC & PLP Update

October 2016
There are some miners who are under the impression that an organized Mining District will immediately get the regulatory agencies off their backs so they can start digging or dredging again.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

February 2014
• Not so happy birthday
• Even more support for the PLP

Prospectors Protest San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

October 2015
More than 100 gold prospectors gathered at Azusa Canyon in the recently declared San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in southern California to voice their concerns…

Legislative and Regulatory Update

February 2013
• "Not a pollutant"
• Thank you Senator Sessions
• California suction dredging
• EPA uses secret email accounts

Legislative and Regulatory Update

December 2010
• The good, the bad, and the ugly
• California and Oregon dredge permits

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