From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Amargosa Valley residents wary of mining claims that now circle town | Local Nevada | Local (reviewjournal.com)
A breaking news alert sent to me last week by another member here from the Amargosa Conservancy states:
A company up my way has slowly been buying up water rights over the years in a valley adjacent to the one I live in where there are only a few large ranches and a semi-ghost town with about two dozen people. They filed under "agricultural use." Recently they quietly changed it to "mining" and are now staking up large areas as well. Sort of like the tactics taken by LADWP in the Owens Valley in the early decades of the 20th century.
Amargosa Valley residents wary of mining claims that now circle town | Local Nevada | Local (reviewjournal.com)
A breaking news alert sent to me last week by another member here from the Amargosa Conservancy states:
Amargosa Conservancy Wrote:"BREAKING
Rover Critical Minerals stakes hundreds of new mining claims on the doorsteps of Amargosa Valley homes and businesses, and on the shoulder of Death Valley National Park
Residents of Amargosa Valley recently alerted local government officials and conservation groups of new mining stakes outside of their homes. The claims belong to Rover Critical Minerals, the same mining company proposing to conduct exploratory drilling on the border of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
On-the-ground surveying has revealed perhaps as many as 400 new claims staked just weeks ago, carpeting an 8,000 acre section of public land surrounding and bordering numerous homes and businesses in the region.
This staking of new claims just a few hundred feet from homes and businesses raises serious concerns of potential impacts to groundwater depended upon by residents for their lives and livelihoods
These new mining claims, documented here for the first time, are also staked above groundwater aquifers that feed the springs at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park and provide drinking water to the Timbisha Shoshone Reservation. Furnace Creek hosts the park’s visitor center, hotels and other tourist amenities."
A company up my way has slowly been buying up water rights over the years in a valley adjacent to the one I live in where there are only a few large ranches and a semi-ghost town with about two dozen people. They filed under "agricultural use." Recently they quietly changed it to "mining" and are now staking up large areas as well. Sort of like the tactics taken by LADWP in the Owens Valley in the early decades of the 20th century.
DAW
~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.
~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.