Dear Martin
I am afraid my point may have been obscure. With a Ban on Mining by a world
group, the attitude of the mining company and mining property owners will
consider having a mine ruin on their property will cause a future restriction
on what they can do with their property and they will try everything possible
to remove this threat. Much to the mining historian's dismay they will
destroy, reclaim and ruin much of what we have been trying to build over the
last 2,000 or so years of technological and social development. For the
endangered species act (ESA) in the US the attitude of ranchers, farmers and
miners has been to shoot, shovel and shut up. I am afraid this will become
the attitude of necessity of the mineral property owner and we will not be
able to talk to anyone about preservation except those people who do not own
the property such as bureaucrats and such.
Mason
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