“- so I decide to close my mine. What are you as the miner going to do about it?”
Go to the federal government and lay claim to the mine that is no longer being used and re-open it. Rare is it that a mine is completel on private property or on property that cannot be claimed once the mine shuts down.
My family owns a gold mine (for real, no kidding) and if we do not mine it per federal schedule then the claim can be jumped.
Great, wonderful Idea!! Now that you are the owner, are you going hire everybody on their word and resume?
Or - are you going to:
"... want to know A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y EVERYTHING about that candidate [that you] can POSSIBLY know."?