Historic California Gold Mine Looks To Reopen As Gold Prices Remain High

Historic California Gold Mine Looks To Reopen As Gold Prices Remain High

The historic Idaho-Maryland gold mine in Grass Valley, CA is looking to reopen due to the continued high value of gold. The mine on the verge of reopening pending county approval over the objection of many local residents and businesses. 

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50 Comments

  1. Scott Barnum on March 22, 2023 at 8:12 am

    Mine on!

  2. Mary Bennett on March 22, 2023 at 8:12 am

    That mine sits around a residential community. NO to mining and losing our water quality. Grass Valley board of supervisors will have a battle on their hands if they approve a dirty mine operation from a operator from Canada. There is a new housing development in the works less than a mile away. Traffic, Noise and pollution.

  3. Anar Kist on March 22, 2023 at 8:15 am

    gold and silver should be seen as an strategy to hold some value if one of these days the system breaks down and all the servers froze out

    no body wants to end up outside of the local bank in a endless line with a bunch of useless paper/piece of useless plastic(cards) Waiting for an answer they wont have

  4. vance jones on March 22, 2023 at 8:17 am

    Wrong, that mining would be huge.

  5. Johnny on March 22, 2023 at 8:17 am

    its like the good town folk dont realize what our countries debt sits at.

  6. Tim Burner on March 22, 2023 at 8:18 am

    Is that environment friendly? Thought California was better then that lol ok i lied

  7. Lucky Baldwin on March 22, 2023 at 8:19 am

    Gold IS NOT a crypto currency. When you buy gold you actually get some metal, a tangible good. With crypto currency all you’re buying is a fart in the wind.

  8. CryptoRAM 420 on March 22, 2023 at 8:19 am

    gold mines are dirty way worst than NFT’s

  9. B. L. on March 22, 2023 at 8:22 am

    Why would anyone ever open this mine? The County needs to look at the financial stability of the firm. What specific projects has this firm developed? Why is the engineer speculating on anything. Either you know or you don’t. This is the wrong place to open this mine. The promise of jobs will never pan out for this mines. That’s pure speculation too. Its all one Big Shell Game – to impress the County Board of Supervisors. Inflate numbers, get Investors, win a project, be bad neighbors. Leaving the community with the end result — an environmental disaster relating to cleanup costs. Either the BOS votes against this – or the BOS is voted out!

  10. Mike Finn on March 22, 2023 at 8:23 am

    I may be the only one, but I hope greed doesn’t win again. There is little "need" for more gold other than for someone to make a profit. If I was the mayor, I would restrict the use of the public streets for any and all mining related business and put in place noise and air quality ordinances.

  11. Michael Frankowiak on March 22, 2023 at 8:26 am

    I would invest in this mining operation

  12. undertow on March 22, 2023 at 8:29 am

    It’s funny that they think they’ll stop the money making. Capitalism > everything

  13. Robert Wolfe on March 22, 2023 at 8:32 am

    Even during all the gold rushes theirs still 90 percent still in the ground 9 times more than all the gold rushes put to gather. Who ever said they found it all isn’t a goldminers at all.

  14. California Republic on March 22, 2023 at 8:33 am

    Crypto like the US Dollar is based on faith, Gold has actual uses and is a marketable commodity.
    The “slave” comments predate the Gold Rush so the “native” needs a history refresher.

  15. Eric Norgren on March 22, 2023 at 8:37 am

    II may also be due to transferable gold shortages in the chip and electronics manufacturing industry which is the primary conductive material for multi layered circuitry, but all that gold is basically locked off the market as smaller recoverable electronic quantities are traded. Also given the requirements for "Intel Corp" to open a new chip manufacturing facility in the US. reopening gold mines would make sense as a strategic mineral for a variety of tech industries. I remember the gold rush of the 80’s when the value or price of gold skyrocketed over $800.

  16. Single Foster Dad on March 22, 2023 at 8:37 am

    I hope the American Indians going to get a cut you don’t close something down for a little while wait for a generation or two to leave and then don’t respect the American Indians

  17. All praise Jah on March 22, 2023 at 8:38 am

    State of Jefferson!

  18. jen monami on March 22, 2023 at 8:41 am

    Its like fossile oil for climate by the Dems. California is so out of touch by far lefty brainwash.

  19. G$MG QUEEN 👑 on March 22, 2023 at 8:41 am
  20. Charlie Swearingen on March 22, 2023 at 8:42 am

    Everyone wants modern living conditions, an iPhone, computers, and cars, but only if it comes from third-world countries. We no longer live in the nineteenth century, and the world is too dangerous to rely on our enemies for the natural resources we require…

  21. Me on March 22, 2023 at 8:42 am

    Gold _isn’t_ like crypto at all! Gold has an intrinsic value based on a finite rarity. Crypto is based on pure speculation and hype.

  22. New Moon on March 22, 2023 at 8:42 am

    The guy comparing Gold to Crypto is really stretching logic.

    Gold is a finite resource that used in a lot of high technology for practical reasons. Including the James Webbs Telescope.

    Cryptocurrency is a bunch of zero’s and one’s not really useful for anything practical other than representing a specific order in which they are laid out. It’s a fundamental building block of nothing except misplaced hopes. 🤡

  23. Dan Boyd on March 22, 2023 at 8:46 am

    Same with oil. A lot of well reopened with oil so high.

  24. JonD on March 22, 2023 at 8:47 am

    That’s cool. We’ll just get our gold and silver from slave miners in the Congo so we can keep the cost low. No big deal at all.

  25. He Who Knows on March 22, 2023 at 8:48 am

    Gold is worth everything, you wouldn’t have computer chips without it, just for starters… Humans will never give up money, so, humans will never stop doing whatever they can to earn it, print it, govern it, spend it, invest it.

  26. Mir Mir on March 22, 2023 at 8:49 am

    WSOS The higher the temperature, the more the oceans will evaporate, then there will be more humidity and more precipitation, the desert will decrease plants regarding moisture and carbon dioxide will grow faster, the history of the earth is such that if global warming was antiquity, then it was a paradise for the biosphere,. .and when global cooling was then the evaporation of the oceans would decrease and precipitation would decrease, the desert would increase, this would collapse for the biosphere.The largest desert Antarctica, the hottest place the rainforests.

    Read the history of the earth, ancient times in global warming for the biosphere was a paradise. For plants, food is carbon dioxide, the more carbon dioxide, the more plants and more animals, carbon dioxide is not evil but good, without carbon dioxide there would be no life, that’s a fact!.

  27. Orda Khan on March 22, 2023 at 8:51 am

    This can’t have anything to do with Russia tying Gold to the rouble…

  28. wambulance on March 22, 2023 at 8:51 am

    Rise golds’ CEO Ben Mossman is still evading the last ecological disaster he caused in his home country of Canada. He’s as dirty as they come.

  29. Ernest knox jr on March 22, 2023 at 8:53 am

    Jus keep destroying the Earth why don’t U

  30. B on March 22, 2023 at 8:54 am

    its worth more than the usd raw minerals go up in value when economies do poorly

  31. Third Eye on March 22, 2023 at 8:54 am

    You can’t see it from space. Also, you can’t see the Great Wall from space either.

  32. islam on March 22, 2023 at 8:55 am

    Who is God in Islam ?
    Muslims believe that God has no partners or associates who share in His divinity or authority and that God is transcendent, unlike His creations, and thus has no physical form. Nor is God believed to exist in (or be represented by) any material object. A number of divine attributes or “names,” which serve to describe God, are found in the Qur’an. Some commonly known attributes include the Most Merciful, the Most Forgiving, the Most High, the Unique, and the Everlasting, among others…………………..

  33. Selow Hgts on March 22, 2023 at 8:55 am

    Why are they worried about arsenic in their drinking water? lol. The GOP has virtually said arsenic doesn’t hurt anyone and has lifted all restrictions on it. Drink up, MAGAts

  34. Tony on March 22, 2023 at 8:58 am

    Get some coal out on the way

  35. Empirical Wizard on March 22, 2023 at 8:58 am

    Bring on the greivance grifters, self-appointed stakeholders, and outside agitator environmental whackos, and progress wallows stuck in a dynamic quagmire morass of squabbling lunatics.

  36. Brian the Red on March 22, 2023 at 8:58 am

    Most of Earths gold has not been mined. Most of earth’s gold is molten in the middle of the earth.
    2nd point, gold, crypto and currency are all very different things. Equating gold to crypto shows a vast knowledge deficit of understanding.

  37. Robert Wolfe on March 22, 2023 at 8:58 am

    They didn’t even mine 10 percent of of the gold in the ground.

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  39. Mattamuskeet on March 22, 2023 at 9:01 am

    Comparing physical gold to crypto is completely idiotic.

  40. AbbeyL on March 22, 2023 at 9:02 am

    Waiting for the many wild critters, like rattlesnakes, to take a bite of of foolish crime.

  41. Spiral Namikaze on March 22, 2023 at 9:02 am

    It’s a great conductor of electricity for chips as well.

  42. Robert Wolfe on March 22, 2023 at 9:03 am

    If they don’t like people telling them what to do on their land.They shouldn’t tell people who owns gold mines what to do.

  43. TheKindDoc on March 22, 2023 at 9:03 am

    I think that without magic our brilliant scientists are going to figure out how to transmute lead to gold, and as with diamonds when we better master the process, it is suddenly going to be devoid of value when it becomes a high school lab experiment to create gold and laugh about how people in the past would have given anything for this easily creatable substance.

  44. Freedom First on March 22, 2023 at 9:05 am

    I never knew why old mines wouldn’t be re-opened again….I mean, given the "mineral finding technology" of the last hundred to hundred and fifty years it stands to think that these mines still could hold vast amounts of material inside and with better technology I’m sure profitable too.

  45. Eric Norgren on March 22, 2023 at 9:06 am

    Really, is Hillary going to actually payoff Trumps campaign media debt, is Trump that far in the bankruptcy hole that Hillary’s email server is gonna bail Trump out?

  46. MA Wizard on March 22, 2023 at 9:08 am

    Uh. Gold has value. It’s not just pretty. It’s used in all the equipment used to make this video.

  47. straightarrow372 on March 22, 2023 at 9:08 am

    I like the analogy to crypto currency. I’m glad they don’t put it in teeth any more, so I’m not at risk of having dental work stolen

  48. J Nolette on March 22, 2023 at 9:09 am

    Open the mine!

  49. dAn on March 22, 2023 at 9:10 am

    $3,000 an ounce is coming! 😆

  50. Noahs Computer on March 22, 2023 at 9:10 am

    Townsfolk oppose the mine that caused their town to exist in the first place. That makes zero sense.

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