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Mining is considered the highest and best use of our public lands.

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.

We stand at the edge of a whole new mining rush.

You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.