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 July 29, 2023 at 11:47 pm

    Mine on!

  2. Dean W on July 29, 2023 at 11:47 pm

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

  3. wambulance on July 29, 2023 at 11:47 pm

    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.

  4. TheKindDoc on July 29, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    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.

  5. Third Eye on July 29, 2023 at 11:49 pm

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

  6. Dean W on July 29, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    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.

  7. dAn on July 29, 2023 at 11:50 pm

    $3,000 an ounce is coming! 😆

  8. B. L. on July 29, 2023 at 11:51 pm

    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!

  9. J Nolette on July 29, 2023 at 11:52 pm

    Open the mine!

  10. undertow on July 29, 2023 at 11:53 pm

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

  11. Dean W on July 29, 2023 at 11:54 pm

    California is bankrupt.

  12. Ernest knox jr on July 29, 2023 at 11:55 pm

    Jus keep destroying the Earth why don’t U

  13. Tim Burner on July 29, 2023 at 11:55 pm

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

  14. Lucky Baldwin on July 29, 2023 at 11:55 pm

    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.

  15. AbbeyL on July 29, 2023 at 11:56 pm

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

  16. vance jones on July 29, 2023 at 11:56 pm

    Wrong, that mining would be huge.

  17. Samanthwalter Archie on July 29, 2023 at 11:56 pm

    Amazing video, A friend of mine referred me to a financial adviser sometime ago and we got talking about investment and money. I started investing with $120k and in the first 2 months , my portfolio was reading $274,800. Crazy right!, I decided to reinvest my profit and gets more interesting. For over a year we have been working together making consistent profit just bought my second home 2 weeks ago and care for my family.

  18. Eric Norgren on July 29, 2023 at 11:57 pm

    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.

  19. islam on July 29, 2023 at 11:58 pm

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  20. Dan Boyd on July 30, 2023 at 12:01 am

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

  21. Sal on July 30, 2023 at 12:03 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.

  22. Captain Crunch on July 30, 2023 at 12:03 am

    OPEN THE MINE , JUST REGULATE IT, NOBODY’S GOING TO ENSLAVE INDIANS TO WORK IT, MODERN METHODS WORK !!

  23. Johnny on July 30, 2023 at 12:04 am

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

  24. Eric Norgren on July 30, 2023 at 12:04 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?

  25. Dean W on July 30, 2023 at 12:05 am

    Crypto currency is on a downward spiral.

  26. Mir Mir on July 30, 2023 at 12:07 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. Mike Finn on July 30, 2023 at 12:12 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.

  28. Tony on July 30, 2023 at 12:16 am

    Get some coal out on the way

  29. Empirical Wizard on July 30, 2023 at 12:17 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.

  30. single foster dads Single Foster Dad on July 30, 2023 at 12:18 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

  31. Orda Khan on July 30, 2023 at 12:20 am

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

  32. Spiral Namikaze on July 30, 2023 at 12:21 am

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

  33. He Who Knows on July 30, 2023 at 12:22 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.

  34. All praise Jah on July 30, 2023 at 12:23 am

    State of Jefferson!

  35. Mary Bennett on July 30, 2023 at 12:26 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.

  36. jen monami on July 30, 2023 at 12:28 am

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

  37. Me on July 30, 2023 at 12:29 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.

  38. G$MG QUEEN 👑 on July 30, 2023 at 12:29 am
  39. New Moon on July 30, 2023 at 12:30 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. 🤡

  40. California Republic on July 30, 2023 at 12:31 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.

  41. Brian the Red on July 30, 2023 at 12:32 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.

  42. Charlie Swearingen on July 30, 2023 at 12:33 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…

  43. MA Wizard on July 30, 2023 at 12:33 am

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

  44. Dean W on July 30, 2023 at 12:36 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.

  45. straightarrow372 on July 30, 2023 at 12:36 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

  46. Anar Kist on July 30, 2023 at 12:36 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

  47. Captain Crunch on July 30, 2023 at 12:37 am

    I hope they open that mine and get rich from it… I’m going back to mining myself, don’t like the stress I get from city life no more.

  48. CryptoRAM 420 on July 30, 2023 at 12:38 am

    gold mines are dirty way worst than NFT’s

  49. B on July 30, 2023 at 12:40 am

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

  50. Selow Hgts on July 30, 2023 at 12:40 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

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