Committee Serial No. 89-34. Considers H.R. 799 and related bills, to revitalize U.S. gold production by authorizing Interior Dept to subsidize operational costs of established mines and costs of establishing new mines, and to establish Gold Procurement and Sales Agency within Interior Dept.

Committee Serial No. 90-7. Considers. H.R. 742 and similar H.R. 3042, H.R. 3274, H.R. 3275, H.R. 3951, H.R. 4250, H.R. 5344, H.R. 5418, to authorize the Gold Mines Assistance Commission to provide production assistance funds total bullion produced by new or established mines. H.R. 8803 and related H.R. 9899 and H.R. 10097, to authorize Treasury Dept to provide grants-in-aid to states to subsidize up to 90% of state aid to gold mining and production.

The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the U. S. Department of Energy commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study on required technologies for the Mining Industries of the Future Program to complement information provided to the program by the National Mining Association. Subsequently, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health also became a sponsor of this study, and the Statement of Task was expanded to include health and safety. The overall objectives of this study are: (a) to review available information on the U.S. mining industry; (b) to identify critical research and development needs related to the exploration, mining, and processing of coal, minerals, and metals; and (c) to examine the federal contribution to research and development in mining processes.

Committee Serial No. 90-7. Considers. H.R. 742 and similar H.R. 3042, H.R. 3274, H.R. 3275, H.R. 3951, H.R. 4250, H.R. 5344, H.R. 5418, to authorize the Gold Mines Assistance Commission to provide production assistance funds total bullion produced by new or established mines. H.R. 8803 and related H.R. 9899 and H.R. 10097, to authorize Treasury Dept to provide grants-in-aid to states to subsidize up to 90% of state aid to gold mining and production.

This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralsâ€"such as gold, silver, copper, and uraniumâ€"on over 350 million acres of federal lands in the western United States. These lands are managed by two agenciesâ€"the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior, and the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture. The committee concludes that the complex network of state and federal laws that regulate hardrock mining on federal lands is generally effective in providing environmental protection, but improvements are needed in the way the laws are implemented and some regulatory gaps need to be addressed. The book makes specific recommendations for improvement, including: The development of an enhanced information management system and a more efficient process to review new mining proposals and issue permits. Changes to regulations that would require all mining operations, other than "casual use" activities that negligibly disturb the environment, to provide financial assurances for eventual site cleanup. Changes to regulations that would require all mining and milling operations (other than casual use) to submit operating plans in advance.

Mongolia’s mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate. This debate has often cast the country as either a victim of the ‘resource curse’ or guilty of ‘resource nationalism’. In The State, Popular Mobilisation and Gold Mining in Mongolia, Dulam Bumochir aims to avoid the pitfalls of this debate by adopting an alternative theoretical approach. He focuses on the indigenous representations of nature, environment, economy, state and sovereignty that have triggered nationalist and statist responses to the mining boom. In doing so, he explores the ways in which these responses have shaped the apparently ‘neo-liberal’ policies of twenty-first century Mongolia, and the economy that has emerged from them, in the face of competing mining companies, protest movements, international donor organizations, economic downturn, and local and central government policies.