1872 Mining Law effects Then and Now

This video illustrates the difference in mining methods between the early 20th century and the early 21st century. Its time to take a new look at giving away public lands and perhaps a new interpretation of the 1872 laws.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Rosemont
• copper
• Augusta
• resources
• Coronado
• forest
• Santa
• Rita
• mountains
• proposed
• open
• pit
• mine

[kerbyjackson]

Apparently, you don't get the fact that less than 1% of all modern miners are actually involved in large scale corporate miners and that the majority of the people you are attacking are those of us carrying on the same traditions (and mostly the same methods) of the old timers that you are so fond of showing.

[azroberth]

@kerbyjackson

I know there are small miners who are involved in mining today but we are fighting a Canadian Corporation from putting in an open pit copper mine in the Coronado National Forest of Arizona. I am trying to show the general public the mine proposal is for a large scale project. Rosemont Copper has tried the tactic of saying the area is a traditional mining area and we are trying to show what little impact the earliest mines produced.

[tangibleinspiration]

@azroberth

Unfortunately, large industry is not the one to suffer. They have the money to grease palms and pay legal fees and such to keep their ball rolling. It's the little guys that get hurt time and time again. The guy taking his kids out sluicing in a stream, or the one trying to hardrock mine with minimal equipment, or the ones with small "dredges" that impact the environment not at all.

[kerbyjackson]

Well, let me tell you what all of this anti-1872 Mining Act activity is actually accomplishing.

It is wiping out small scale miners, many of whom are still using traditional methods, while in the meantime, the corporate mines such as those you are fighting are actually being protected by the feds.