An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States -- Local mining district regulations -- Congress speaks : the general mining laws -- Courts speak : mucking out waste and processing words -- Location, location, location -- It's off to work we go -- Spurs, dips, and angles -- Litigation -- Tailings, slickens, and slimes -- Hydraulic mining -- Modernizing the mining law of 1872 -- Environmental law in the Age of Aquarius -- A frontal attack on the mining law of 1872 -- The continuing attack on the mining law of 1872 -- Badger State battle for mining
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