Spokane, Washington-Miners may be leaving the United States today in droves, but a 45-year industry veteran thinks they will be back to look for minerals. "Fifty to 60 percent of mining exploration money has dried up in the United States, and I assume it has gone overseas," says TS Ary, Convention Chairman of the Northwest Mining Association centennial meeting and former Director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. "But there is no place in the world that is as satisfactory to work in as the United States, if the playing fields are level." Today, those fields aren't level, Ary says, because of redundant, unreasonable regulations and uncertainty related to proposed revisions of the nation's basic mining law, the Mining Law of
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