04/24/2013
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"I think it was President Ulysses S. Grant who passed the Mining Law of 1872, very liberal and very progressive."
"the hardrock mining industry has no less of a responsibility than the coal industry."
"the West has developed. We don't need to continue to do that any longer."
"It is long past time to comprehensively reform the Mining Law of 1872."