seeth07
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No bets on the bidder being me and then donating all to the state of Wyoming? 
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I smell a rat. I can’t remember the last time G&F did anything to benefit my hunt areas so why should this be any different. Ranching lobby is a big player in this state and I’m sure they will benefit as usual. There said that ..... now wait for a horses head in my bed tomorrow.
KU_Geo
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Sold...$1.33B to an precious metal and hard mineral investment group. Too bad for the state of WY, I was really hoping they would win this one.
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SAJ-99
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Too bad for WY. Looks like private investment firms are still flush with cash and are willing to overpay.
nettereo16
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Would have been nice but not surprising
VikingsGuy
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Should have put the money in Apple stock.
Mattff200
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At least the state will get severance and ad volorum taxes when they mine the land.
BuzzH
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Yep, and hopefully not left holding the bag if things go sideways.
Buffs35
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Price was roughly $300 per met mineral acre, and that excludes the 1MM surface acres. Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me. I so wish Wyo was the winning bid.
Carl 9.3x62
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Does anyone know what WY bid on it?
greatwhitebuffalo
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Not sure. Guess I need to go to NYC and knock on some dude's door to see if they'll let me shoot an antelope on their property next season.
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Apparently they have an office in Denver.
Schaaf
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Is this still in the works? I just assumed with WY’s projected revenue taking a nosedive this was dead in the water.
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Mattff200
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If your referring reclamation all mines are bonded for the reclamation costs. Any engineer you talk too will say that the assumptions dictated by the state have the mines way over bonded.
BuzzH
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Yeah, well, wonder if they sub out some of the OG part. What about solar, wind?
Bonding requirements for those? Costs to deal with orphan wells, wind turbines, solar panels when the companies walk away?
greatwhitebuffalo
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Why don't we get a petition going for some new HMA's and walk-in areas?
Irrelevant
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Are they really? I mean I'm sure the mines think they are, but there is a surprising amount of abandoned mines currently being cleaned up by the public, so many in fact, that WY has it's own department devoted to it, and they even put out an annual magazine talking about how much they've done. http://deq.wyoming.gov/aml/
call me skeptical.
VikingsGuy
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New mines have different rules than the old ones did. It can be both true that new mines are over bonded, AND the state is cleaning up at public cost old mines there we not subject to such (or much lower) bonds. I am no WY mining expert, but my guess is this is an apples/bananas comparison.
