Hey there.
Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast. I appreciate it.
The website is down right now due to a major server failure, I am told.
Very unfortunate timing as well.
There is a meeting every first Friday of the Month.
Tomorrow there is a meeting. We will have 2 meetings in one actually. The first part will be the SWO Mining Association meeting and then we'll have the Jefferson Mining District meeting.
We also have a meeting on the third Friday of the month now which is solely for the Mining District.
You all will be coming a long way when you do. Although I can't plan anything about it, there usually is a lot of info, we've been told it is worth the trip.
As the District gets its legs under us we're asking the Grantees/Miners to start learning about the mining law and the Coordination process. We asked last meeting that people begin studying 43 USC 1712. Being Coordination is federal a Coordination Plan can be written for all areas within the geographic area of the district, across state border. This is the tool we have chosen to reassert the mining law and miner's rights. When the Plan gets written any miner will be able to take it to their local agency to address plans or projects being implemented by the federal agencies that affect our claims. These meeting aren't the normal "public comments" meetings which are essentially useless to us. These are meetings that start 2 or three steps before the public meetings. So there is a substantial input that we gain as a mining district.
For more information on Coordination, search out Fred Kelly Grant on the internet and Coordination. Stewards of the Range also. Fred has a different site though, I don't remember now. . . Trademark I think.
As it is being discussed now, Miners will be able to form up into local "mining camps" approximating the current counties within which to work. Maybe even Federal Forest District would work. Existing groups or districts simply have to use the Jefferson Coordination Plan. Something no one is doing now. And this is where Jefferson is positioning itself, to be the instrument to get something accomplished, instead of the misery we've seen so far. So all it will take is miners working the Plan where they are, when necessary. Over all "management" of a district as large as Jefferson should be very simple. Over time I'm sure we'll see the benefit of our work.
There is still a lot of work to do yet to write the federal Coordination Plan and organize the District but things ought to come in due time. State Coordination plans may follow and a miner's court is in the works too. See if we can throw an administrative hearing requirement before the District into the mix to assure miners are being treated pursuant to the mining law before they have to go into the courts.
Just so you know the Southern border of the District includes Lodi but not Stockton and goes from the coast to the Cali border, then North into Nevada. That takes in Sac.
Thanks again for your interest and participation.
Bringing one more aspect of mining heritage back.
It's pretty exciting times, really.
~Hal.
Thanks for tuning in to the broadcast. I appreciate it.
The website is down right now due to a major server failure, I am told.
Very unfortunate timing as well.
There is a meeting every first Friday of the Month.
Tomorrow there is a meeting. We will have 2 meetings in one actually. The first part will be the SWO Mining Association meeting and then we'll have the Jefferson Mining District meeting.
We also have a meeting on the third Friday of the month now which is solely for the Mining District.
You all will be coming a long way when you do. Although I can't plan anything about it, there usually is a lot of info, we've been told it is worth the trip.
As the District gets its legs under us we're asking the Grantees/Miners to start learning about the mining law and the Coordination process. We asked last meeting that people begin studying 43 USC 1712. Being Coordination is federal a Coordination Plan can be written for all areas within the geographic area of the district, across state border. This is the tool we have chosen to reassert the mining law and miner's rights. When the Plan gets written any miner will be able to take it to their local agency to address plans or projects being implemented by the federal agencies that affect our claims. These meeting aren't the normal "public comments" meetings which are essentially useless to us. These are meetings that start 2 or three steps before the public meetings. So there is a substantial input that we gain as a mining district.
For more information on Coordination, search out Fred Kelly Grant on the internet and Coordination. Stewards of the Range also. Fred has a different site though, I don't remember now. . . Trademark I think.
As it is being discussed now, Miners will be able to form up into local "mining camps" approximating the current counties within which to work. Maybe even Federal Forest District would work. Existing groups or districts simply have to use the Jefferson Coordination Plan. Something no one is doing now. And this is where Jefferson is positioning itself, to be the instrument to get something accomplished, instead of the misery we've seen so far. So all it will take is miners working the Plan where they are, when necessary. Over all "management" of a district as large as Jefferson should be very simple. Over time I'm sure we'll see the benefit of our work.
There is still a lot of work to do yet to write the federal Coordination Plan and organize the District but things ought to come in due time. State Coordination plans may follow and a miner's court is in the works too. See if we can throw an administrative hearing requirement before the District into the mix to assure miners are being treated pursuant to the mining law before they have to go into the courts.
Just so you know the Southern border of the District includes Lodi but not Stockton and goes from the coast to the Cali border, then North into Nevada. That takes in Sac.
Thanks again for your interest and participation.
Bringing one more aspect of mining heritage back.
It's pretty exciting times, really.
~Hal.
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