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Article: Mining reform is a N.H. issue too.(LEGISLATION)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
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- February 29, 2008
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Odd as it may seem, an eastern state like New Hampshire has a real stake in the western mining law reform movement now under way in Washington, D.C.
While mining is no longer a big industry in the Granite State, the price of long-outdated policies governing mining on public lands has been felt in New Hampshire and the rest of the country. New Hampshire--and all states--stand to benefit if genuine reforms clean up mining on public lands and protect taxpayers from a new legacy of mining problems.
In 1872 Ulysses S. Grant signed a law aimed at populating the West by opening up public lands to explorers seeking gold, silver and other valuable "hardrock" ...