Legislation & Regulation
Legislative and Regulatory Update
November 2017 by Scott Harn
- EPA ends "sue and settle"
- Sage grouse mineral withdrawal cancelled
Legislative and Regulatory Update
Oregon Senate passes Senate Bill 3
Suction Dredging Battle Escalates
• State attorneys claim the Court of Appeals wrongly relied on South Dakota Mining Association v. Lawrence County regarding federal preemption...
EPA Chief to Reconsider Paying Claims Over Mine Waste Spill
“We feel that we can clean up an area that has been abandoned after 100 years of mining,” Lyon said.
MMAC & PLP Update
I’ve received quite a few inquiries from miners who are beginning to realize that traditional Mining Districts are powerful entities and they are looking to get their district organized if it’s in disarray.
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Idaho maintains control
• Enough wilderness already
• Restraining the EPA
• Republicans on the attack
• DOI requests hard rock royalty
• New Forest Service plans
• Bill supporting small miners
• New mercury emission regs
• Latest info on California suction dredging
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Comment period extended for frog habitat
• Tennessee permits for gold prospecting
• California dredging injunction and restraining order hearing
Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Partial win for miners
• California suction dredging
• Feds continue to push for more public lands
• Idaho suction dredging
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The Bawl Mill
• Ask The Experts - How do I work this glacial deposit?
• Ask The Experts - How do I best recover gold in pyrite?
• It Pays to Know Your Bedrock
• BLM Cancels 10-Million-Acre Sage Grouse Mineral Withdrawal
• Take it to Bedrock
• The Beatty Mining District of Nevada
• Flood Plain Gold Deposits—What Are They Really?
• Exploring Iron Oxide Copper Gold Deposits
• Conrey Dredge No. 4
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
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Over the Divide: Nancy Glenn; Sondra (Adelson) Bernzweig
