Major Gem & Other Mineral Deposits - some thoughts

The US and Wyoming have abundant natural resources (including gemstones) that are not being developed. For instance, in Montana and Wyoming there is a world-class copper-silver-gold porphyry province that is comparable to those in Arizona. This region also has enormous potential to produce gold and silver deposits from veins and replacement deposits, and it doesn't end there. There are also known resources in lead, zinc, titanium and molybdenum.

One must wonder what the US and State governments are thinking? We all know the answer - they are thinking how to squeeze every dime out of the tax-payer while talking about all of the fictitious jobs they've created. In one year, any ethical president and congress could turn this country around and provide unlimited resources, jobs and revenue to our people - but will they do it? Of course not. There is something mentally wrong with anyone who runs for office - they have wires crossed, want to be King, want to control us, and probably ate too much lead tainted paint imported from China as a child. I don't believe that there is more than a handful of politicians who care the slightest about you and me or where our nation is heading.

I do know geology and mineral resources. If we could get government out of our way - require government to be Constitutional and live within their means, shrink to reasonable levels (less that half its current size), and GET RID OF the ridiculous regulations, duplicate and triple regulations, and get rid of all of the duplicate and needless agencies, we could again become the greatest nation in the world.

The Absaroka Volcanic Range in northwestern
Wyoming and southern Montana.

Getting back to mineral resources - ask yourself. Would I be better off having a nice walking trail that I could use with 30 other people a year and see nothing but grizzly bears trying to eat you, or would I be better off having a robust economy, with thousands of new jobs, materials, and products made in the USA and just as many trails with grizzly bears? The answer should be easy, but apparently not to the elite who control us. What I am getting at is there are hundreds of regions in the US that contain incredible resources and have been locked up only to keep the taxpayer out. The Absaroka Volcanic Range skirts the eastern edge of Yellowstone hosts a major porphyry copper-silver-gold province that has been piecemeal withdrawn to protect Yellowstone (even though Yellowstone is larger than some states), the most caustic geological environment at the surface of the earth, and the streams in the mineralized areas in the Absaroka Mountains drain away from Yellowstone. So, the bureaucrats are not protecting Yellowstone, they are just stopping mining and dragging our country down in the direction that Mexico's government took their people.

An example of one of the many mineral deposits found in
the Absaroka terrain. This is from the Kirwin district where
many vein samples were rich in silver and some assayed more
than 100 ounces per ton in silver.

As an example, the Kirwin in the southern portion of the Absaroka Mountains has at least one known large porphyry copper-silver-gold-molybdenum-lead-zinc-titanium deposit that contains more than a $billion in identified resources that were drilled and trenched in the late 1970s by AMAX. This property was quickly withdrawn as soon as AMAX dropped their interest in developing an open pit and underground mines. This happened to mineral porphyry after porphyry in this range and culminated with the Clinton Administration taking the New World gold deposit from a mining company - something we would expect to see in Cuba.

With mining and exploration, other deposits would have been found in the Absaroka Mountains, but this will never happen unless we accidentally get in a congress and president who are genuinely interested in representing the people rather than their own pocketbooks.

Another of many examples are the colored gemstone deposits in Wyoming. When I discovered these, I figured there would be interest in developing them and that the State of Wyoming would work to promote these - after all, just one of the iolite gemstone deposits has potential to produce more value than all of the coal and oil and gas in Wyoming (if the resources of this deposit can be verified).  But as soon as I announced discovery of this and other major gemstone, diamond and gold deposits in Wyoming, instead of being rewarded for a job well done, I was seriously punished by the State - it was almost as if they did not want anyone to know about these deposits. What are they hiding?

Another district I watched that was dismantled over many years by the Forest Service is the Encampment district in southeastern Wyoming. Conoco Minerals made several significant discoveries of zinc-copper-lead-silver volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in this region. Every time this company, or any other company that came into this region to exercise their constitutional rights to explore and file mining claims on public land that was claimable under the 1872 mining law, the Forest Service was alerted as to possible economic deposits. Region after region was piecemeal withdrawn by the FS in both the Sierra Madre and in the Medicine Bow Mountains to keep anyone from any form of economic development. This is public land, not FS land. And these are just a few examples and there is considerably more.

Last night we watched a program about what's under America hosted by Martin Sheen. This was a good program that began to tell this story about all of America's resources. But it didn't tell the story of how government is keeping it all away from us.

There are many resources in this country and we will not run out if we mine and produce them. Read more about our resources at GEMHUNTER and our newsletter.