Legislation & Regulation
SB 838 and the Salem Witch Hunt
December 2015 by Tom Kitchar
In every sense, this was a witch hunt with a preconceived agenda to heavily restrict or outright prohibit most small-scale mining in Oregon.Legislative and Regulatory Update
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