Replies to post #167187 on Liberty Star Uranium and Metals Corp (LBSR)

[mstoneinv]

Some argue that existing claims are not valid unless the holder can prove without further exploration that commercial minerals exist on the claims. This is often completely impossible to do, and the people who wrote the law surely understood that.

That is an opinion devoid of any understanding.

"Some argue that existing claims are not valid unless the holder can prove without further exploration that commercial minerals exist on the claims.

"Some argue..." is nonsense. THIS IS HARD, INDISPUTABLE LAW. THERE IS NO DEBATE.

The withdrawal laws have been on the books for decades and they MAKE ABSOLUTE SENSE. It has been thoroughly litigated in many court cases.
If the government wants to withdraw land from mining for whatever reason, IT IS VERY REASONABLE to grandfather only those claim holders who either have working mines, or who at the time of the withdraw, can prove they made a VALUABLE MINERAL DISCOVERY. That's fair.

If you have a VALUABLE MINERAL DISCOVERY, you get to work it. If you don't, too bad, that's life, you missed the deadline for discovery. If that VERY RATIONAL AND REASONABLE RULE was not in place, then every claim holder could just keep exploring and drilling endlessly, claiming they have a value discovery, and NO ONE would stop. THAT WOULD MAKE A WITHDRAWAL DECLARATION WORTHLESS. GET IT! THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!

Also there are NO CURRENT CONSIDERATIONS to change the need to have a proven valuable discovery. That is an outright LIE!