The Utah Uranium Mining Rush That Never Was | NBC Left Field

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Following President Trump's shrinking of the protected areas in Utah's Bears Ears National Monument, speculation grew of a land rush and a move to open more uranium mines in the area. But the prospectors hoping to get rich quick never came. What did happen was a rollback of protected lands, another American affront to Native Americans, and a system of claims and permits that makes "land rushes" a web of paperwork and fieldwork.


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I am impressed that you have done so much proper research into this. You present facts and allow the viewer to form the opinion. Perhaps even though you may not find uranium or any other "valuable" commodity, the journey is the prize.

rageinthekage
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I think they kind of missed the politics. Utahans don’t really care who has the land. Most people would have just given it to the tribe. Utahans were upset because the federal government keeps telling the state what to do with its own land. More than 60 percent of the land in Utah is federally owned, meaning that the state cannot do exactly what it wants to with that line. People don’t like being told how to use land that feels like it’s their own.

jakeave
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There's no uranium down there but there are thousands and thousands of Indian artifacts and firepit and kivas....you can walk for miles on a carpet of broken pottery sherds.

sketch
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What's "Rancing"? (Watch the video.)

cmkelly
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You should have at least taken a Geiger counter with you! And how did you call that a discovery which is required to file a mining claim unless you are mining sandstone? Also did you file for a placer claim or a lode claim? I'm not sure you entirely understand how mining claims work....

mr.microcuries
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It might be noted that since the beginning of research of Cold War tech there have been people looking for uranium all over the West. The 1950s had people with Geiger counters looking to strike it rich, roamed probably every square mile of public land. I ran into a guy with a scintillation detector hung out the window of a pickup at West Yellowstone, MT, driving the roads looking for radioactive ore, in 1975. So if there haven't been claims before there probably aren't any radioactive minerals.

fredmanicke
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People should just stake claims to stop the mining companies from destroying the land!

stephenwedderburn
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Oil and gas sales/bids went well tho, over one million dollars

muzik
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this is colonization of sacred native land

plantqueers
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I like trump, he’s my favorite president

dankmemester.
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Gee did Trump yes public lands to pull a grift for his gain...

brendashanks
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The girl's kinda cute :) other than that, I think this is just one of trumps immature jealous tantrum to Obama, that is way more popular and found to be more competent at home and abroad.

halozaf
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Woman the answer to your bias opinion is no one person past present or future own the land, it is borrowed and all belongs to GOD. Not you or anyone will ever change that fact no matter how much you ramble !!!

nickbeam
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Its indian lands no good can come from this.

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