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The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.

To merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.