Michigan House Votes to Give Mining Operations More Flexibility

June 2018 by Associated Press

Casperson said he is not worried about businesses subverting the language in the bill because the DEQ would still have the authority to halt the new construction if it is deemed environmentally unsound.

Judge Gives OK to Nevada Mining Tax Initiative

April 2012
A proposed constitutional amendment to raise the cap on mining taxes can proceed as written, a state judge ruled March 14.

Feinstein Pushes for Million-Acre Land Grab

November 2015
Met by jeers and cheers from more than 1,000 people, US Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) made another pitch to create three new national monuments in the deserts of southern California recently.

Proposed Regulations for California Suction Dredging

April 2011
One of the most asinine proposals in the SEIR is to require miners to state when and where they will be dredging. This information would be accessible to the public, which would make them prime candidates for getting their homes burglarized while they are out mining.

Bawl Mill

March 2023

March 2023

Legislative and Regulatory Update

January 2019

• Zinke leaving office
• Property rights triumph over critical habitat says Supreme Court
• Water of the United States

Reminder: Annual Claim Filings and Fees Due

August 2021

Mining claimants who wish to retain their mining claims on Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands through the 2022 assessment year must pay a maintenance fee or file a maintenance fee waiver certificate on or before September 1, 2021, to prevent forfeiture.

Representative Manweller Lends a Hand in Washington State

July 2014
We're done watching as an unelected and unchecked bureaucracy, with rule-making authority, enforcement powers, and seemingly bottomless budgets abuses citizens at will.

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