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[email protected]Hardrock Mining: StateRegulationSummary Various state and federal laws play important roles in theregulationofminingactivities.Miningforhardrockminerals on federal public lands is governed primarily by the GeneralMiningAct of 1872. The GeneralMiningAct authorizes a prospector to locate and claim an area believed to contain a valuable mineral deposit, subject to the payment of ...
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Get this from a library!Hardrock mining: stateregulation. [Aaron M Flynn; Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service,]
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Hardrock Mining Reform and Reclamation Act of 2015. Applies this Act to any mining claim, millsite claim, or tunnel site claim located under the general mining laws. Subjects to the requirements of this Act, except in specified circumstances, any unpatented mining claim or millsite claim located under the general mining laws before the enactment of this Act for which a plan of operation has not been …
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May 28, 2020· The GeneralMining Actof 1872 allows individuals to stake claims and obtain exclusive rights to thehardrock mineraldeposits that belong to the United States. Becauseminingdisturbs the land and creates the potential for serious public health, safety, and environmental hazards, the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service overseehardrock miningoperations on federal lands.
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Theagency adopted a zero discharge standard for mines using cyanide and similar processes to extract metals such as gold and copper. That standard, if applied today, would prohibit open pit hard rock mines from "storing" their wastes in our waters. Mt. Emmons Mine, Colorado
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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. Saleable minerals, such as sand and gravel that are …
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Summary of S.1386 - 116th Congress (2019-2020):Hardrock Miningand Reclamation Act of 2019
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Feb 03, 2020· Newhard rock mining regulationsfor Santa Fe County signal county officials’ interest in vetting such projects before they move forward. Thoseregulationswere drafted with other projects in mind, but approved last August as Comexico’s application wends …
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Sep 22, 1989· FederalRegulationofHardrock Miningin the National Forests The U.S. National Forest System consists of approximately 198 million acres of land. Much of this is concentrated in the western United States. These lands contain much of the nation's remaining deposits ofhardrockminerals such as gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc.
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Each operator of ahardrockmineralsminingoperation shall pay to the Secretary, for deposit in the Fund, a reclamation fee in an amount established by the Secretary byregulationof not less than 0.6 percent, and not more than 2.0 percent, of the value of the production from thehardrockmineralsminingoperation for each calendar year.
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Establishes theHardrockMinerals Fund, composed of theHardrockReclamation Account and theHardrockCommunity Impact Assistance Account. Requires each operator of ahardrock miningoperation to pay the Secretary, for deposit in the Fund, a displaced material reclamation fee of 7 cents per ton of displaced material.
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AboutMiningand MineralsTheMiningLaw, as amended, opened the public lands of the United States to mineral acquisition by the location and maintenance ofminingclaims. Mineral deposits subject to acquisition in this manner are generally referred to as "locatable minerals." Locatable minerals include both metallic minerals (gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc, nickel, etc.)
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The framework formining regulationis primarily based on federal laws dating back to the late 1960s. In many cases, these regulatory responsibilities have been delegated to state agencies, which have in turn developed their own sets of environmental laws,regulations, and standards. Regulatory standards established at state levels are commonly ...
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Jun 21, 2018· The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to roll back aregulationto makehard rock miningcompanies pay for clean up is sparking a new …
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