Hardrock Mining - Re-think; Reform

As human-powered outdoor recreation enthusiasts, we all need metal; from climbing carabiners and bike frames to trekking poles and ski edges. The problem lies with 19th century values and policy guiding 21st century high tech mining technology. The laws adopted in 1872 to govern prospecting with a pick and shovel and to help settle the West before the invention of the light bulb are the same laws in use today. These outdated laws place no regard for the new values and economic future of the west.

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[chefwoo]

Must be great to work in star bucks all your life and go on joy rides everyday. As for the rest of us, we have actual bills to pay. Big people bills.

[HM Dickson]

I came, I saw, I almost threw up! When the hell did biking and kayaking come to outrank work and production? I guess you have your head up your ass just for the warmth. Just a case of another bunny hugger fermenting enough to float to the top. Get you a pick and shovel son. You will find out that no body gives a hard rock miner a damn thing! I thank God every night that I am a placer miner and don't have to beat on that granite.

[mistersmith6000]

I qm one that doesn't know better, but/and I can't see how this message is misinformation based on my intuition, because mining the land is not a 'right' nor should it be, It is a privilege which carries with it a responsibility. Going out of of town with a metal detector and a sense of adventure is one thing but if we own any shares, fixed-term savings, even a piddly little trust fund, superannuation etc.. we all complicit as funders of co-operations that owe us profits. Private miners!

[craigmancool]

lets all start FIGHTING!

[MCK3274]

Watching what happens when mining companies "mountain top" in W. Virginia I wouldn't trust any of them to not ruin the land after they are down with.

[Petla Noden]

very well produced, inspiring and reaching.

[joeploharz]

Why don't you really stick it to the mining corperations and stop using anything that is a product of mining. You have no idea what you are talking about. Mines are strictly regulated along with thier tailings.

[moparnut27]

and did you people know that up until a few years ago, over half of this countries' silver stockpile, which is and was mined out here, was wraped up in the coils used to produce fuel rods for nuke reactors to make power, oh by the way uranium is mined out here here too. we are one of the few self sufficient countries in the world, so you bark rubbing, left wing pinko commie, idiots can get bent!

[moparnut27]

where do you think the iron ore to make the steel for your hybrid's' frame came from, where do you think some of the minerals to make fertalizer so you dont have to sysnthesize them out of oil come from so you people can stuff your faces, where do you think that food is grown, where do you think the oil comes from to run that equipment to produce your food, and the surplus that exsists in this country?

[moparnut27]

god! have you people have nothing better to do? the west is still valued for what it has below the ground what do you think makes the electricity i'm, and everyone else is viewing this with, what do you think produced the power for you ignorant fucktards to make this video, where do you think the copper and aluminum for power transmision came from, where do you think the gold for you electronics came from?