Meanwhile, 216 mining claims were lodged on land already staked out by solar developers.
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The idea is to speed up renewable energy projects by preventing mining claims from sidetracking solar power plants and wind farms.
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The Obama administration has proposed putting government land designated for solar and wind development off limits to mining claims for at least two years.
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The rule would not apply to valid, previously filed mining claims.
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He decided to segregate 1 million acres of federal lands in Arizona while the Department evaluates whether new mining claims should be allowed on these lands.
Mining companies had filed thousands of claims in recent years, but it is unlikely that any of the 3, 500 mining claims in the area will receive federal permits when the 20-year ban goes into effect.
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The BLM says 437 new mining claims have been made on land in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming where wind developers had previously applied for leases, known as rights of way, or ROW, in agency parlance.
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The canyon was inhabited by native peoples as far back as 10, 000 BC, European explorers braved the inhospitable terrain first in the 1500s and then again in the 1800s, and the canyon became accessible to its first influx of visitors in 1901 when the Grand Canyon Railway was built to service mining claims.
Yet the Kols found themselves ensnared in a new sort of servitude, woven by contractors with mining leases obtained from the raja (who still claims mining rights to 46 villages).
Native claims on timber and mining land have held back investment.
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No one claims that cleaning up the mining sector is going to end the conflict on its own.
There have been claims that the award of mining contracts after the fall of the Taliban was affected by corruption.
While mining the millions of asteroids around Earth opens up a new area for the mining industry, questions arise regarding staking claims and owning property, or asteroids in this case, in space.
When the repeals finally came, in the early nineteen-sixties, Hancock staked his claims and, after more rounds of badgering, persuaded mining executives from Britain and the United States to invest in the Pilbara.
Mega has claims to some very rich fields but isn't doing any mining at the moment.
Standard data mining focuses on structured data and looks at traditional financial forms such as insurance claims and bank account applications to build a risk profile.
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But farmers are worried that the ramifications could go much further, and some mining companies have given warning that they are reluctant to make new investments, lest they be affected by aboriginal land claims.
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