The Utah Uranium Mining Rush That Never Was | NBC Left Field

The Utah Uranium Mining Rush That Never Was | NBC Left Field

Following President Trump’s shrinking of the protected areas in Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, speculation grew of a land rush and a move to open more uranium mines in the area. But the prospectors hoping to get rich quick never came. What did happen was a rollback of protected lands, another American affront to Native Americans, and a system of claims and permits that makes “land rushes” a web of paperwork and fieldwork.

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22 Comments

  1. Charles Kelly on November 24, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    What’s "Rancing"? (Watch the video.)

  2. Molly Brown on November 24, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    😄🤣😃🤣 this chick was sitting right in the middle of the uranium one deal Hillary Clinton Hamond land grab and Russia and doesn’t even realize how huge the story was right over the top of her head I suppose, blonde bimbo how pathetic.😬

  3. Dank Memester2.0 on November 24, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    I like trump, he’s my favorite president

  4. sketch6995 on November 24, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    There’s no uranium down there but there are thousands and thousands of Indian artifacts and firepit and kivas….you can walk for miles on a carpet of broken pottery sherds.

  5. Fred Manicke on November 24, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    It might be noted that since the beginning of research of Cold War tech there have been people looking for uranium all over the West. The 1950s had people with Geiger counters looking to strike it rich, roamed probably every square mile of public land. I ran into a guy with a scintillation detector hung out the window of a pickup at West Yellowstone, MT, driving the roads looking for radioactive ore, in 1975. So if there haven’t been claims before there probably aren’t any radioactive minerals.

  6. muzik311 on November 24, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    Oil and gas sales/bids went well tho, over one million dollars

  7. jmcarp98 on November 24, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    Trump is a puppet just like the others and the shadow government continues to own and control everything. Opps I’m not supposed to know that. Good look America trying to figure it out when they are dumbing you down with vaccines, fluoride, mercury filings, gmo everything, etc. Now we must wait for the 1984 cashless crypto society where they will really enslave everyone on the planet:D

  8. zaf Raz on November 24, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    The girl’s kinda cute 🙂 other than that, I think this is just one of trumps immature jealous tantrum to Obama, that is way more popular and found to be more competent at home and abroad.

  9. Steven Sandt on November 24, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    There are so many ignorant people on the Left. In order to have a valid claim you must do exploratory work on the claim and be able to prove that there are commercially worthwhile minerals present. Without being able to do this, you can’t have a claim on the land. Stupid.

  10. Mr.Microcuries on November 24, 2020 at 9:27 pm

    You should have at least taken a Geiger counter with you! And how did you call that a discovery which is required to file a mining claim unless you are mining sandstone? Also did you file for a placer claim or a lode claim? I’m not sure you entirely understand how mining claims work….

  11. stephen wedderburn on November 24, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    People should just stake claims to stop the mining companies from destroying the land!

  12. Connor Guldner on November 24, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    Well done, Great video.

  13. Jake Avery on November 24, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    I think they kind of missed the politics. Utahans don’t really care who has the land. Most people would have just given it to the tribe. Utahans were upset because the federal government keeps telling the state what to do with its own land. More than 60 percent of the land in Utah is federally owned, meaning that the state cannot do exactly what it wants to with that line. People don’t like being told how to use land that feels like it’s their own.

  14. Red Blanket on November 24, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    Its indian lands no good can come from this.

  15. Plant Queers on November 24, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    this is colonization of sacred native land

  16. falcao cerezo on November 24, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    Obama … the most intelligent and the best President since JFK. Calm, cool, and classy under pressure. Eight years of fixing George Bush’s mess and restoring the USA. No scandals, no ADD tweets, no tantrums, no random firings & chaos, and no groping by the pussy. Simply the best !!!

  17. Rage In The Kage on November 24, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    I am impressed that you have done so much proper research into this. You present facts and allow the viewer to form the opinion. Perhaps even though you may not find uranium or any other "valuable" commodity, the journey is the prize.

  18. muzik311 on November 24, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    Media pumped it for personal gain

  19. nick beam on November 24, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    Woman the answer to your bias opinion is no one person past present or future own the land, it is borrowed and all belongs to GOD. Not you or anyone will ever change that fact no matter how much you ramble !!!

  20. muzik311 on November 24, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Well done but waste of money

  21. Oreo KitKat on November 24, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Second comment

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