re eco freaks forcing space mining in article r b v ec access digex net prb access digex com pat writes besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed when they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining they still mine coal in the midwest but now it doesn t look like the moon when theyare done pat i aint talking the large or even the mining companies i am talking the small miners the people who have themselves and a few employees if at all the people who go out every year and set up thier sluice box and such and do mining the semi old fashion way okay they use modern methods toa point i am talking the guy who coem to nome evry year sets up his tent on the beach the beach was washed away last year and sets up his her sluice box and goes at it mining i know the large corps such as alaska gold company might complain to my opinions are what i learn at the local bs table my original thing idea was that the way to get space mining was to allow the eco freaks thier way as they have done with other mineral development you can t in many places can t go to the bathroom in the woods without some form of regulation covering it michael adams nsmca acad alaska edu i m not high just jacked
