Month: June 2014

NEW AMRA CLAIMS

Members,   We have finally received the paperwork back from BLM and have posted the AZ Sasquatch claim and our newest claim near Fresno CA, Sasquatch 3.   We will be posting our Idaho claim and Indiana claim shortly.   We are also working on several claims just south of Sacramento CA, western CO and […]

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Meeting with DFG today:

Todays meeting: We will post the hearing in its entirety on our Youtube account tomorrow. The meeting was not about the new proposed regulations, but just the definition of what a dredge is because several years ago, we found a way around …the moratorium. Dave McCracken published the gravity dredge idea and the liberals in […]

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Suction dredge meeting in Sacramento CA, June 11th

Suction Dredging in California meeting: We wanted to remind everyone of the meeting this next week in Sacramento, June 11th at 3pm. This is over the ridiculous new regulations they are proposing on suction dredging in California. AMRA will be there and we plan to speak about these new regulations. We urge you, strongly urge […]

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Update on the road closures, gates and boulders in California

Many of you know we had a meeting with Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor Susan Skalski about the gates, boulders blocking camping and mining areas and their violations of Federal law in denying the small miners access to their claims.  Here is a recap of that meeting from yesterday: The meeting lasted for over 2 hours […]

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A word from AMRA about access to federal mining claims

Most of you may not know we possess (collectively) many decades of legal and litigation experience showing that miners are not just uninformed, uneducated folks with scratchy beards and missing teeth as our opposition seems to picture us. We have many cases in our files concerning miners rights, but this link here probably is the […]

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