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GAO Key Issues Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands ~ Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands Thousands of mining operators have extracted billions of dollars worth of hardrock mineral from land now managed by the Department of the Interiors Bureau of Land Management BLM without being required to pay a federal royalty

Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands The National Academies ~ Description This book the result of a congressionally mandated study examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralssuch as gold silver copper and uraniumon over 350 million acres of federal lands in the western United States These lands are managed by two agenciesthe Bureau of Land Management

Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands Taxpayers for Common Sense ~ The production of hardrock minerals on federal lands is governed by the General Mining Law of 1872 Under the law companies are not required to compensate taxpayers a fair market rate for the use of federal lands or the sale of publicly owned minerals extracted from them including gold silver copper and uranium among others

Mining on Federal Lands Hardrock Minerals ~ Mining of hardrock minerals on federal lands is governed primarily by the General Mining Law of 1872 The law grants free access to individuals and corporations to prospect for minerals in public domain lands and allows them upon making a discovery to stake or “locate” a claim on that deposit

GAO Hardrock Mining Availability of Selected Data ~ A hardrock gold mine on federallymanaged land in NevadaMine Of the six agencies in GAOs review—Bureau of Land Management BLM Fish and Wildlife Service FWS National Park Service NPS Bureau of Reclamation Reclamation and the Geological Survey USGS in the Department of the Interior Interior and Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture—BLM and Forest Service reported collecting data on some of the 16 selected hardrock mining data elements

Hardrock Mining National Wildlife Federation ~ Most mine developers are owned by foreign corporations and unlike other extractive industries the hardrock mining industry does not pay royalties for minerals taken from federal public lands Whats more the public is generally on the hook for the cleanup of abandoned mines

Hardrock Mines AbandonedMines ~ About Hardrock Mines These are primarily ores and metals gold silver copper lead zinc nickel Most are small to medium in size though there are a handful of large significant sites These sites are predominately in the West which gave rise to the establishment of cities and towns during homesteading Westward population expansion

Mining and Minerals Bureau of Land Management ~ The minerals on Federal lands are divided into three categories each subject to different laws and regulations Locatable which are subject to the Mining Law of 1872 as amended include gold silver copper and other hard rock minerals Leasable minerals such as coal and a host of other commodities are subject to various Mineral Leasing Acts

General Mining Act of 1872 Wikipedia ~ The General Mining Act of 1872 is a United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals such as gold platinum and silver on federal public lands This law approved on May 10 1872 codified the informal system of acquiring and protecting mining claims on

Foreword ~ A mining claim is a selected parcel of federal land valuable due to a specific mineral deposit or deposits for which one has asserted a right of possession under the Mining Law