PLP and Mining Districts
MMAC Update
September 2017 by Scott Harn
We have found strong support from legislators in both the House and Senate for several proposed bills that will provide Mining Districts with a greater role in the decisions that affect access to mining claims, oversight and regulations.
MMAC Update
We spent our evening at some informal get-togethers at two private residences in the DC area, which provided the opportunity to talk with staff members from Congress, other agencies, and a few consultants working on public land issues. We found common ground with many of them, and found a strong ally in a former Congressman turned consultant who agreed that Mining Districts provide the smartest legal route...
Update on MMAC & PLP
Public Lands for the People is working on a Miner's Bill of Rights with the support of several members of Congress.
MMAC & PLP Update
Even more prospectors arrived on Saturday morning, and drywashers and detectors were in use for much of the day...
MMAC Update
We have found strong support from legislators in both the House and Senate for several proposed bills that will provide Mining Districts with a greater role in the decisions that affect access to mining claims, oversight and regulations.
Miners Making the Rules and Regulations?
How would you like it if you could make the actual rules and regulations governing your own business? A dream, right? Well, the existing Federal Mining Law gives a claimholder this ability in the context of organized Mining Districts.
PLP Update
“In light of the results of the midterm elections our focus will be with the US Senators and their staffers that we have already been working with.”
Mining Districts in Montana Get Organized
Those miners present immediately recognized the benefits of becoming members of MMAC and joined up on the spot. I spent some time answering a few questions, and then the miners took over.
Subscription Required:
The Bawl Mill
• Our Readers Say
• Ask The Experts - Where can I get geological maps?
• Ask The Experts - What happens to gold during flash flooding in dry areas?
• Ask The Experts - How do gold and silver stocks react in market crashes?
• Ask The Experts - I need help with more in-depth mining research
• Ask The Experts - Is this gold?
• Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Entry-Level Metal Detectors for Gold Prospecting
• Nice Specimen Gold Recovered in Northern California
• How to Recognize Hard Rock Gold Ores
• The Coeur Rochester Mine
• Detecting and Recovering Those Tiny Pieces
• EPA Chief to Reconsider Paying Claims Over Mine Waste Spill
• Environmental Analysis Starts for Proposed Idaho Gold Mine
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
