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Title: Mine in the sky
Post by: SkierBob on Nov 25, 08, 11:22:25 PM
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Title: Re: Mine in the sky
Post by: hikin_jim on Nov 26, 08, 02:12:23 AM
Cool stuff.  Is that the one near Rock Creek?
Title: Re: Mine in the sky
Post by: SkierBob on Nov 26, 08, 06:49:08 PM
Quote from: hikin_jim on Nov 26, 08, 02:12:23 AM
Cool stuff.  Is that the one near Rock Creek?

yes, the turn off to the mine is near the bottom of Rock Creek.  The mine is up Pine Creek.  We had the run of the place Sunday, I really screwed up by not taking more pictures. 
Title: Re: Mine in the sky
Post by: hikin_jim on Nov 26, 08, 10:51:36 PM
Yeah, that's a cool spot.  I found a lot of Clorox bottles made out of thick brown glass one time there.  Not that I want the wilderness to be compromised, but sometimes old mines and stuff are pretty cool.  Maybe the only development we should allow is development that occured 75+ years ago.  I'm sure modern mining interests would appreciate that.  :)
Title: Re: Mine in the sky
Post by: SkierBob on Nov 27, 08, 02:41:17 PM
I've been doing some reading on tungsten mines and found most tungsten mines in the U.S. and Canada were forced to shut down due to the price of tungsten dropping so low. Mainly due to imports generated by cheap labor. Seems it's the same story all over again.  American's can't compete in a global market.   

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Title: Re: Mine in the sky
Post by: K9luvr on Nov 28, 08, 03:25:05 AM
Quote from: hikin_jim on Nov 26, 08, 10:51:36 PM
Not that I want the wilderness to be compromised, but sometimes old mines and stuff are pretty cool.  Maybe the only development we should allow is development that occured 75+ years ago.  I'm sure modern mining interests would appreciate that.  :)

If you are talking about Congressionally designated wilderness areas, when they became wilderness, they were "withdrawn from mineral entry"  If there were valid mineral claims when the designation was made, those claims have to be honored.  If you are talking about just general public land like National Forests and Bureau of Land Management areas, if there are locatable minerals and someone files a valid claim, they have private property rights to the materials to mine them out.  This is under the 1872 mining law as amended.