Posted by Gene Davis (Ga.) on August 17, 2007 at 19:00:22 from (70.41.83.210):
In Reply to: Sad news posted by Burnie on August 17, 2007 at 03:55:49:
I retired from the kaolin mining industry in central Georgia after 30 years. We did open strip mining and reclaimed out land almost as fast as we finished removing the product from the land. The product we produced is for paper fillers and coating to make it glossy and the ink to print on it well. Georgia law requires a reclamation bond of X amount of dollars for each acre mined. Then an acre has to be reclaimed to get another acre permitted for more mining. We usually reclaimed our land as soon as we finished the block in the pit. we had a crew that did this almost full time and then if the land owner wanted it planted in trees, made into a fish pond, pasture or farm land it was done. Each strata of earth was placed in a different pile so it could be returned cin the correct order as removed. We even made one mine into a large recration area with a lake, swimming areas, clubhouse and tennis courts, the whole nine yards. We also had a group whose job was to deal with buying or leasing the land if the people wanted to sell it or maybe just the mineral rights. In the 30 years I was there I know of maybe half dozen or less cases where there were serious disputes over land. The company tried to pay fair value and then if the mineral rights were all the company got, then the owner got a royalty check for the mineral in the unprocessed state and some of the land drew royalty payments for 20+ years before any mining and when the option was brought to use the owner was paid for the crop or what ever was planted on it. By the way the company was E.C.C. International. A totally British owned company.
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