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Show t On 1872 mining law The facts add up! I Sit " the Editor: In regards to last weeks attack on Mayor Bob Steele, it is obvious after reading Mr. Halls letter to the editor that he has done some research on the mining law of 1872, but did he get all the facts? Does he know of all the requirements, restrictions, and costs before patenting a To By Allan R. Gibson Well all the excitement of the primary election is past. The voters have had their say and Gordon Young is the choice of the Republican party to run against Jim Garrett in November. Congratulations to Mr. Young. The interest in the primary election has been exciting this year but I am glad the election is over for a little while. At least on a local level we will probably find it quiet until mid October. The dedication of the Juab County DUP MuseumMultipurpose center was nice on Saturday. Everyone did a nice job. They held tours of the facility but if you didnt get to go, you should plan on doing so in the future. Special Service District One is going to have a contest in the future to come up with a name for the building. Be thinking about it. My suggestion is the Evelyn Lomax Center. Mrs. Lomax has been one of the guiding lights behind the center since the inception and my vote goes for her. Didnt get a call personally, but I hear there has been a firm calling around town promising free trips. They have been asking for Social Security numbers when they call to verify the identify of the lucky winner. Sounds like a scam to me. It has been reported to the Social Security Administration and the local cops. If they call you, just remember the old saying If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Heard over at as the clerks were putting out the orange hunti ng hats. How many of those hats do you have? one clerk said. The orange horney ones? was the reply. Then laughter. I dont know how horney a hat can be but I bet they sell fast. arg 4-- D Thanks to all those who voted for me in the Primary Election! appreciate your support. I Gordon M. Young INDXDSIR claim? If you look at the overall cost of one patented mining claim, in my opinion, it is some of the most expensive ground in the U.S.A. Minerals first have to be found. The average prospector Si Wfi mni Ir federal government. The government is in the process of raising its yearly $10 fee to $100 per year. The assessment work lots of sampling, testing, and road costs thousands of building I might add that and dollars, do cannot anything without you first obtaining an expensive reclamation bond. You cannot dig holes or make roads without the bond. North Lillie Mining Company spent thousands of dollars last year on reclamation bonds to move old mine dumps on patented ground! The $100 assessment per year per claim is only a minimum. Most claim owners know that if they want any results, they have to do lots of ore testing. Each of these tests can run $500 and up. Depending on the complexity of the tests and and the values they are testing for, they can and in most cases do go on for years before finding aU the ore can spend many years and thousands of dollars looking for one vein of ore rich enough to prove of good economic value, unless he is lucky enough to stumble over it the first day. Once you find it, you have to place a discovery marker on the site and then stake it. Depending on the terrain, that sometimes can take days or weeks. Then you have to file your claim with the recorders value. Then you have to have a office and the Bureau of Land which costs geology report done, which also $17 Management, costs thousands of dollars. This for filing fees. supports the validity of After you file a claim, you report the claim itself and proves to have to do $100 of assessment the government that the claim work per claim per year to keep feasible to mine. is economically that claim valid. At the end of Then must be done, drilling each year, you have to file that which can cost thousands of Mr. Hall obviously has doUars per hole. This tells the overlooked the requirements volume of the ore and also rebetween filing and patenting. quires more assay tests and adds to proving of economic feasibility. Then you need to have a claim survey done. This can cost $1,000 or more for one claim, depending on the terrain and the availabiltiy of section comers. Patent surveys cost a minimum of $500 per claim. This all has to be done before the federal government will even consider giving a patent on a claim, and I know I havent covered everything. 0 n And now, after all is done, you still have to begin production of the ore, which easily can run into millions of dollars to move the first ton into production. If the 1872 mining law is assessment with the county and changed, ti will call for no more 0C3 The 2 Times-New- s Nephi, Utah September 9, 1992 found wil not go into production because of this, and it will effect the economy hard, with the loss of hundreds high-grad- From Mayor Steele An answer to Hall . ment finds all of the forms, apTo the Editor: last in C.B. letter As to plications, and certificates in Halls weeks edition regarding patent- order, then you pay $2.50 to $5 ing mining claims under the an acre for your claim. , Now, Mr. Hall, being an 1872 mining law: honest, responsible, and compassionate man, I forgive you for your inadequacies, for your quick-fireporting, for name for taking out of context calling, sentences that fit your point of view, and for only telling half the truth. Next time, go to the real source for facts and tell the real story. For the real facts, contact the Utah State BLM office, or go to the Nephi City Library where I some claims. Second, the claim has to be have left a copy for your convensurveyed and the claimant has ience. Robert L. Steele to pay the surveyor. Surveyors Nephi need to be mineral surveyors Land of Bureau aproved by the Management. The minimum cost is $500 for the first claim and $200 for any additional claims, plus any additioanl cost incurred. Third, the services of a patent To the Editor: laywer are required to fill out Hey, way to go, Mr. McKay. the forms and applications re- Good letter to the editor! quired by the government. Such The thoughtful people who lawyers are extremely costly want to share our resources with some $300 to $400 per hour. the six billion people of world Fourth, an application for a and the people who want to mineral patent costs $250, plus manage earths resources in$50 for each additional claim or telligently, they are my type of site within the application, people, not the ones who would payable to the U.S. Govern- jock it up with wilderness areas ment. of extreme environmental conenFifth, a certificate of title for cern, nor the the property must be certified dangered species act. by an authorized abstractor or Management, not exclusion, title company. This procedure is the ultimate word. also is very costly. Robert L. Steele Sixth, if an when the govern Nephi First, citizens or prospectors have to have a discovery, before they can patent mining claims. 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