Is the Colorado Mining Association just being cautious or coy in not coming to the rescue of a politician who once stood up for the use of cyanide?   Here are some of my thoughts on the scrap to get to Congress between three Colorado politicians who are invoking, or failing to invoke, their past support for or hatred of the mining industry. 

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Tony Turtle Hampson, an Australian miner lives in a tent because he cannot afford a million dollar home.  In the Oppenheimer park in Vancouver lots of homeless people who cannot work in the mining industry are living in tents—and seeking permits to do so.  In Tennessee, a developer of million dollar homes mined the coal on the property before building the houses, and he is now in trouble—accused of mining without a permit. 

All these stories about miners, tents, and million dollar homes put me in mind of the mine houses I knew. 

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