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On the recordMay 16, 1994
This land we are talking about, Barrick did not even file a claim for that land. Somebody else did. You know, people go out there and they put up stakes and they just lay claim to it. Do you know what Barrick did? They found this site. The claimant said, ``Yeah, go explore, see what you can find.'' They came back. And they said, ``You have a lot of gold here.'' They paid him $62 million for his claim. What do the American people get out of that? How many jobs do they get out of that $62 million they paid a guy who did nothing but put up four stakes?
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Discussing land claims and financial transactions in the mining industry.

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