Year: 2022

IBAR CLEANUP CANCELLED

IBAR CLEANUP CANCELLED Please share this to let everyone know. Italian Bar clean-up is now officially postponed to a later date to be determined….but soon. This is a decision we put a lot of thought into and it was unanimous. It’s simply going to be too dangerous. We lost our excavator which was coming, we […]

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Italian Bar cleanup this weekend!

Due to the lack of response of people confirming for Saturday’s I-Bar cleanup, and because it’s gonna rain pretty good, we have cancelled the caterer…NOT the cleanup, just the caterer. Folks, to plan something of this magnitude takes advanced planning and if you don’t know how many mouths to feed, you can’t tell the caterer […]

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Our big news……

The big news and the 2022 AMRA dinner Another AMRA dinner is completed and we want to sincerely thank the AMRA staff, vendors and volunteers for making this event hugely successful. So how about our big news? Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), one of America’s premiere constitutional law firms which focuses on cases when our government […]

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How would you like a new Proline 4″ dredge for a dollar?

Our dinner is coming up quickly in Lodi at the Grape Festival Fairgrounds December 3rd and is filling up fast.   Take a watch of this video and hear all the tens of thousands in prizes we are giving away!  

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AMRA’s own Stacy is now an attorney!

We cannot be more proud of Stacy, our Operations Manager here at AMRA for the past 7+ years. We are elated to announce that not only did she complete law school this past summer (top of her class) ……… as of yesterday at 6pm, she has passed the bar and is officially Councelor Serrato! Such […]

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Today we honor veterans

A very simple and short message to our veterans out there, many of whom are AMRA members: Thank you, we are free because of you.

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Update on the USFS FOIA from this Spring

Well this should piss everyone off… Most of you know AMRA’s President, Shannon Poe was issued a ridiculous and illegal citation while hosting a public event on one of our mining claims this Spring for “defrauding an innkeeper”. This citation came because the USFS built some covered picnic areas on the claims…..without notifying the claim […]

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Update on suction dredge litigation in Idaho

By now many of you have likely heard the penalty phase of the litigation out of Idaho over suction dredging was decided by the judge. This does not mean this case is over. This stems from AMRA’s President standing up to the EPA on their requirement for an NPDES permit (a pollution permit) even though […]

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Italian Bar disaster update

ITALIAN BAR DISASTER UPDATE: Well folks, persistence pays off and after more than a year, we are finally going to clean up the disaster we’ve all been disgusted by down on Italian Bar along the Stanislaus river. The illegal occupiers are gone and man did they leave a mess. It is now time to return […]

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Update on USFS citation of AMRA President Poe

Back in May of this year we posted about how the USFS cited AMRA President Shannon Poe for “defrauding an inn keeper” over an absurd claim by them that a claim owner must pay a $7 fee to a third party garbage collection agency while on their mining claim.   Yes, it was absurd and […]

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