Mining Operations The history of the U.S.A. / Mexico border in the Arizona and New Mexico section of the border is that some hundred or so years ago someone moved the survey markers so that the American side of the line contained gold rich country, and the Mexican side no longer did.  This has been a shameful part of our American History, but the Mexicans have figured out how to get back, they purchased some very large Copper mining areas just south of Tucson.  In the Arizona town of Pearce there is a mountain that contained gold in its hay-day, and recently a foreign corporation has purchased this mountain and is taking it down stone by stone in the attempt to recover the remaining gold that could not be retrieved by hand-methods.  Across the border states there are many possible areas that contain gold, silver, salt, copper, and other minerals that can be, and in the future will be, needed by civilization for its survival and wealth.  The BorderTransportationSystem with its high-speed highway and rail system will allow machinery, materials, and workers to be moved into areas that previously were not economical to approach. The BorderTransportationSystem will be able to charge for this transporting of materials, machinery, and workers to and from these mining and possibly smelting areas; smelting needs considerable power, and the system being built with solar and wind power as its center of performance should be capable of supplying it; and since this is the sun-belt, the smelters themselves can also add solar electric generation that will decrease their cost, and thus allow for higher employee wages and benefits. The BorderTransportationSystem will be supplied with sea water and sea water contains salt and minerals that can be, and probably will be, extracted during the desalinization processes.  This is a form of mining, and these minerals can be sold to private smelters for a small profit which will off-set some of the cost of piping in the water and removing the minerals. Note:  Those companies that want to mine along the route of the BorderTransportationSystem will have to comply with EPA, and other applicable rules and laws, and in addition be Certified as Green and Responsible, thus not polluting or destroying lands; and thus returning the land to its natural state upon completion of each mining operation. Index of ...