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Minnesota Miners (MM), whoever she/he/they are, should post under "Chilean Miners," because MM is nothing but a troll singing out of the Antofagasta hymnal. As far as I can tell, facts are things with which MM/Chilean Miners is entirely unacquainted. "Nobody is being forced to grant more mineral leases" is a hooter indeed. Antofagasta/Twin Metals has sued our federal government demanding precisely that--the issuance of mining leases for minerals owned by the people of the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice has pointed out that in the lawsuit Antofagasta claims a right to such leases in perpetuity--that is, forever. In addition to the Emmer/Nolan amendment that seeks to end the study and deprive the people of the United States of the right to have a say in what happens to the Boundary Waters and the rest of the SNF--which the people own--Emmer has introduced a bill that mandates issuance of mining leases to Antofagasta/Twin Metals and that removes the protections of several important federal laws from Minnesota's two National Forests. Really? Just give the shaft to the hunters, fishermen, hikers, berrypickers, and other National Forest users in Minnesota? As far as the claim that "elite environmentalists" wanted to use the Antiquities Act "to take away forever the Superior and Chippewa National Forests to any kind of development whether it be mining, logging etc.", I ask where's the evidence for that? I've been in the thick of the fight to protect the Boundary Waters since 2012 and I've never heard anyone make that proposal. Do you have names of those "elite environmentalists," MM/Chilean Miners? Who said it or wrote it? When? Where? The many people in the Arrowhead whose livelihoods depend on a healthy SNF and Boundary Waters, and the thousands of people whose real property values will go in the tank if copper mining happens in the Boundary Waters watershed, are either completely invisible to MM/Chilean Miners or are viewed by MM/Chilean Miners to be sacrificial and of no concern. These are real, identifiable people who contribute to the community consistently in one way or another--not some hypothetical person who may or may not get a job in a highly-automated, computer-controlled mine some untold number of years in the future.