Post by digby on Oct 21, 2005 5:00:39 GMT -5
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Who owns the west?
St George Metals Inc
St George Metals Inc is one of 92,125 beneficiaries of a 132-year-old federal mining law that gives away precious metals, minerals, and even the title to the land itself for less than $10 an acre. St George Metals Inc owns the minerals under an estimated 1,839 acres of claimed land giving St George Metals Inc more total land holdings (claims and patents) than 98.5% of all other mining interests.
Headquarters
71 Washington St
Reno, NV 89503
Partners Include
Vek/Andrus Associates, Newmont Mining Corp
Information on subsidiaries and parent companies shown here represents our best estimate of corporate structure at the time of this website release, and are drawn from various publicly available sources. Please report any noted omissions and errors to EWG with a credible source or citation. Thank you.
Overview of Ownership
Claims
Like all U.S. claimholders, St George Metals Inc acquired ownership of precious metals and minerals on U.S. public land for about $2 per acre, and maintains possession of the claim with a small per-acre fee, typically $5 each year. St George Metals Inc pays no royalties to the federal government for metals and minerals mined from this land.
For St George Metals Inc:
* Ranking among U.S. claimholders: 1,215 for total acreage claimed (along with 1 other) of 28,405 total claimholders.
* Current claimed land holdings exceed total claimed acreage for: 95.7% of all other claimants
* Total acres of public lands claimed: 1,839 acres
Mining Plans & Notices on BLM Land
St George Metals Inc is one of the 3,323 mine operators in the U.S. with mining plans and notices on BLM land listed as currently active in government records, operating under laws that allow mining interests to extract and sell precious metals and minerals previously held by the public. St George Metals Inc may also operate mines on Forest Service lands, which are not contained in the LR2000 database that is the backbone of this website. Because the government often fails to promptly close out records for mines no longer active, active mining may be completed for some of the operations represented by plans and notices in this website. The government frequently fails to promptly close out records for plans and notices no longer active. But regardless of the status of mining operations on a particular site, filings of plans and notices are indicative of mining on the property - whether past, present, or planned. Mining operations led by St George Metals Inc may well have left behind permanent pollution. In 2001 mines generated 45 percent of all pollution in EPA's Toxic Release Reporting system while accounting for just 0.36 percent of all industrial facilities.
For St George Metals Inc:
* Ranking among U.S. mine operators for total land encompassed by operation plans on BLM land: 0 of 3,323 U.S. mine operators.
* Land under plans exceeds total plan areas for: over 99.5% of all other operators (BLM-managed lands only)
* Mining plans include 1 approved surface management plans.
Source: EWG analysis of Bureau of Land Management's Land and Mineral Records 2000 (LR2000) data system. For claims, acreages are estimated based on maximum allowable size of claims. For patents, acreages are taken directly from the LR2000 database where available, and are estimated based on maximum allowable size of claim that preceded the patent where acreages are not noted in LR2000. All notices are assumed to be five acres in size, and the size of plans are calculated directly as the size of the land represented by the legal land description in the LR2000 database. The acreages we estimate through these methods would tend to overestimate the actual amount. We welcome corrections here, and would welcome a federal data management system that included the acreages involved in these important federal land transactions.
www.ewg.org is the website for both Environmental Working Group and EWG Action Fund
Copyright 2005, Environmental Working Group. All Rights Reserved.
tinyurl.com/cyahp
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Who owns the west?
St George Metals Inc
St George Metals Inc is one of 92,125 beneficiaries of a 132-year-old federal mining law that gives away precious metals, minerals, and even the title to the land itself for less than $10 an acre. St George Metals Inc owns the minerals under an estimated 1,839 acres of claimed land giving St George Metals Inc more total land holdings (claims and patents) than 98.5% of all other mining interests.
Headquarters
71 Washington St
Reno, NV 89503
Partners Include
Vek/Andrus Associates, Newmont Mining Corp
Information on subsidiaries and parent companies shown here represents our best estimate of corporate structure at the time of this website release, and are drawn from various publicly available sources. Please report any noted omissions and errors to EWG with a credible source or citation. Thank you.
Overview of Ownership
Claims
Like all U.S. claimholders, St George Metals Inc acquired ownership of precious metals and minerals on U.S. public land for about $2 per acre, and maintains possession of the claim with a small per-acre fee, typically $5 each year. St George Metals Inc pays no royalties to the federal government for metals and minerals mined from this land.
For St George Metals Inc:
* Ranking among U.S. claimholders: 1,215 for total acreage claimed (along with 1 other) of 28,405 total claimholders.
* Current claimed land holdings exceed total claimed acreage for: 95.7% of all other claimants
* Total acres of public lands claimed: 1,839 acres
Mining Plans & Notices on BLM Land
St George Metals Inc is one of the 3,323 mine operators in the U.S. with mining plans and notices on BLM land listed as currently active in government records, operating under laws that allow mining interests to extract and sell precious metals and minerals previously held by the public. St George Metals Inc may also operate mines on Forest Service lands, which are not contained in the LR2000 database that is the backbone of this website. Because the government often fails to promptly close out records for mines no longer active, active mining may be completed for some of the operations represented by plans and notices in this website. The government frequently fails to promptly close out records for plans and notices no longer active. But regardless of the status of mining operations on a particular site, filings of plans and notices are indicative of mining on the property - whether past, present, or planned. Mining operations led by St George Metals Inc may well have left behind permanent pollution. In 2001 mines generated 45 percent of all pollution in EPA's Toxic Release Reporting system while accounting for just 0.36 percent of all industrial facilities.
For St George Metals Inc:
* Ranking among U.S. mine operators for total land encompassed by operation plans on BLM land: 0 of 3,323 U.S. mine operators.
* Land under plans exceeds total plan areas for: over 99.5% of all other operators (BLM-managed lands only)
* Mining plans include 1 approved surface management plans.
Source: EWG analysis of Bureau of Land Management's Land and Mineral Records 2000 (LR2000) data system. For claims, acreages are estimated based on maximum allowable size of claims. For patents, acreages are taken directly from the LR2000 database where available, and are estimated based on maximum allowable size of claim that preceded the patent where acreages are not noted in LR2000. All notices are assumed to be five acres in size, and the size of plans are calculated directly as the size of the land represented by the legal land description in the LR2000 database. The acreages we estimate through these methods would tend to overestimate the actual amount. We welcome corrections here, and would welcome a federal data management system that included the acreages involved in these important federal land transactions.
www.ewg.org is the website for both Environmental Working Group and EWG Action Fund
Copyright 2005, Environmental Working Group. All Rights Reserved.
