1872 Mining Law Lets Companies Take $1 Billion A Year From Public Lands Without Payin

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1872 Mining Law Lets Companies Take $1 Billion A Year From Public Lands Without Paying Royalties

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/1872-mining-law-act-grand-canyon_n_849947.html

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.....As prices for uranium and other metals have risen steeply in the last decade, mining claims near the Grand Canyon and other natural landmarks have soared, according to the report, available online at http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploadedFiles/PEG/Publications/Report/10 Treasures.pdf .

Federal data show that more than 8,000 mining claims have been staked in national forest and other public land around the Grand Canyon since 2004, an increase of 2,000 percent, while more than two-thirds of the claims on public lands near Yosemite National Park and 99 percent of claims surrounding Arches and Canyonlands in Utah have been staked since 2005......

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Another source of revenue unavailable to the people; not to mention what mining is doing to the environment including the water supplies. Sigh