Replies to post #14952 on Colorado Goldfields Inc. (fka CGFI)

[M_T_Pockets]

I'm laughing at the stubble part, ficose, so much I can't type! I guess that's the best way to look at this, a game with heavy equipment.
Glad to see someone out there has their sense of humor still intact!
GLTA & keep it all in perspective.

[LtColombo]

With that logic, we could take it back all the way to the spectacle of the Roman Gladiators. I would hope that mankind has become more civilized. In some instances we have and it appears that in some we have not.

There is no competition, or there shouldn't be, between the DMRS and CG. I don't understand your logic, ficose. Could you explain it to me so I can better understand?

Thank you.

JMO

Lt.

[Chips]

I don't know about that, back in '49 (1849), we just showed up, staked a claim and started gold mining - anyone insisting on too much paperwork or trying to horn in died suddenly of lead poisoning (along with a lot of honest miners, claim jumpers, thieves, and innocent bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time.)
Now there's history for you!

Since then we've had 150 years to write the rules for the game. Couple that with improved technology, and the fact that we became "environmentally conscious" in the late 1960s forward with 40-50 years worth of rules for that game (different game but intertwined). Not to mention that we have become very suspicious, accusative and disapproving relative to sudden death from lead poisoning and now there are even regulations about that.
Games consist of freedoms, purposes and barriers (rules).
The problem now is that the rules have eliminated so many of the freedoms that there are hardly any remaining - so it's harder and harder to achieve the purposes.
In 1849, there was a bit too much freedom and not enough barriers so the purposes were similarly difficult to achieve without succumbing to lead poisoning.
So, there needs to be a balance between freedoms and barriers and either imbalance stops one and all from achieving the purpose.

Environmenatal wackos (as opposed to people with sensible responsibility for the preservation and protection of the environment) are playing an altogether different game - stop civilization or get rid of mankind - that's what's wrecking everything. And don't doubt that they are involved in writing some of the environmental regulations. Just wanted to mention that because you said that in Mining when miners win, everyone wins - well the environmental wackos would not agree. They win when the planetary population is at 20 million or something like that and all industrial production is stopped. So they are playing a different game altogether.

Hence a potentially winning course of action would be to go to some "frontier" where you can just bribe or threaten the officials and do what you want. Any chance of just moving POW to some bought off cheap third world dictatorship with gold mines nearby? As the price of gold and silver continue to climb, we could possibly viably ship our ore over there for processing. It would give all those transport people something to do too! And the tailings, we could probably sell them in the bazaar as Genuine Pieces of America - especially if we had a bunch of local workers in the Mill! Or maybe there is a Native American reservation nearby where they are sovereign and can mill gold if they want to flipping a bird to Wally and his whole damned horrible mob.
One can dream....
I'm just saying....