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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.

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.

We write to express serious concerns about the Mining Clarity Regulatory Act, which represents an unprecedented, de facto giveaway of America's cherished public lands to mining corporations.

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.