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We lost Oregon miner Guy Michael this year from cancer.  Guy knew more about mining and mining law than just about anybody you'd ever run into.  We were fortunate enough to get our education from him....We took long conversations and cut them up into rough subjects you can listen to here....These are rough edits because we weren't recording for air, rather than notes for a written article.  But, there is such great information here and in tribut...
We were fortunate enough to get key mining veterans of Oregon to go on line with us and talk about the state of mining in the U.S. today.  Here is a 15 minute part 1 of a three part series......

By Guy Michael; July 4, 2020


Back around 2014 here in Eastern Oregon, there were about 57 mining notices and plans submitted to the Forest Service (Wallowa-Whitman National Forest). Many of them had seven years or more waiting for approval. These small miners’ were not all in the same watershed and this long waiting to complete even one of the watershed environmental impact statements (EIS) and getting it right, to stand up in court, is only part...


By Bob Hamilton-New Radio Star


“An F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, a fifth-generation stealth jet built to give the US an edge over rivals like China, requires 920 pounds of rare-earth materials, according to Asia Times, which reported that the US has an almost nonexistent ability to produce rare-earth materials”.May 29, 2019 (Google News)


For many years, the U.S. has lived with, and just accepted as status quo, as much as a $600 billion a...