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. jen monami on January 13, 2023 at 11:14 pm

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

  2. Selow Hgts on January 13, 2023 at 11:15 pm

    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

  3. Eric Norgren on January 13, 2023 at 11:17 pm

    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?

  4. Johnny on January 13, 2023 at 11:17 pm

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

  5. Empirical Wizard on January 13, 2023 at 11:17 pm

    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.

  6. undertow on January 13, 2023 at 11:18 pm

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

  7. Charlie Swearingen on January 13, 2023 at 11:20 pm

    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…

  8. Mike Finn on January 13, 2023 at 11:21 pm

    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.

  9. Anar Kist on January 13, 2023 at 11:22 pm

    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

  10. Spiral Namikaze on January 13, 2023 at 11:24 pm

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

  11. Dan Boyd on January 13, 2023 at 11:24 pm

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

  12. He Who Knows on January 13, 2023 at 11:26 pm

    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.

  13. J Nolette on January 13, 2023 at 11:29 pm

    Open the mine!

  14. Mir Mir on January 13, 2023 at 11:31 pm

    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!.

  15. Freedom First on January 13, 2023 at 11:34 pm

    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.

  16. Holly Rose on January 13, 2023 at 11:34 pm

    This is my community. Great story. He said it all: water is everything. We do need jobs but not at the expense of everything else that makes this area special and beautiful.

  17. Robert Wolfe on January 13, 2023 at 11:35 pm

    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.

  18. wambulance on January 13, 2023 at 11:36 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.

  19. Michael Frankowiak on January 13, 2023 at 11:37 pm

    I would invest in this mining operation

  20. Me on January 13, 2023 at 11:37 pm

    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.

  21. G$MG QUEEN 👑 on January 13, 2023 at 11:38 pm
  22. New Moon on January 13, 2023 at 11:39 pm

    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. Brian the Red on January 13, 2023 at 11:39 pm

    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.

  24. All praise Jah on January 13, 2023 at 11:40 pm

    State of Jefferson!

  25. Mary Bennett on January 13, 2023 at 11:40 pm

    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.

  26. islam on January 13, 2023 at 11:41 pm

    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…………………..

  27. MA Wizard on January 13, 2023 at 11:42 pm

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

  28. Lucky Baldwin on January 13, 2023 at 11:43 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.

  29. AbbeyL on January 13, 2023 at 11:44 pm

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

  30. Robert Wolfe on January 13, 2023 at 11:46 pm

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

  31. straightarrow372 on January 13, 2023 at 11:46 pm

    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

  32. TheKindDoc on January 13, 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.

  33. Noahs Computer on January 13, 2023 at 11:50 pm

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

  34. Single Foster Dad on January 13, 2023 at 11:50 pm

    that gold mine belongs to the American Indian

  35. Eric Norgren on January 13, 2023 at 11:51 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.

  36. B. L. on January 13, 2023 at 11:52 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!

  37. vance jones on January 13, 2023 at 11:52 pm

    Wrong, that mining would be huge.

  38. Third Eye on January 13, 2023 at 11:52 pm

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

  39. Tim Burner on January 13, 2023 at 11:52 pm

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

  40. Orda Khan on January 13, 2023 at 11:55 pm

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

  41. dAn on January 13, 2023 at 11:56 pm

    $3,000 an ounce is coming! 😆

  42. Robert Wolfe on January 13, 2023 at 11:57 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.

  43. CryptoRAM 420 on January 14, 2023 at 12:00 am

    gold mines are dirty way worst than NFT’s

  44. Mattamuskeet on January 14, 2023 at 12:00 am

    Comparing physical gold to crypto is completely idiotic.

  45. B on January 14, 2023 at 12:05 am

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

  46. Single Foster Dad on January 14, 2023 at 12:06 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

  47. Tony on January 14, 2023 at 12:09 am

    Get some coal out on the way

  48. Ernest knox jr on January 14, 2023 at 12:10 am

    Jus keep destroying the Earth why don’t U

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  50. California Republic on January 14, 2023 at 12:11 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.

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