We made it to Alaska. It is 1:39 and still light out, no kidding. Renting the van and truck in the morning and heading out after big Tom gets here. Sounds like the river came up 4 feet yesterday so they can’t run the hovercraft. Gonna have to make some quick decisions on […]
Well we are packed and ready to head to Alaska today for our two week dredge trip near Chicken. There are 12 of us going and thankfully the weather looks pretty good. Slight showers and mid 60’s. We are literally taking every camera we have, both personally and with AMRA and will be […]
We are just 8 days from arriving in Fairbanks AK to dredge for two weeks. We will be posting videos every day (weather permitting) of our clean outs and Don Siegel is even growing his beard out so he can pretend to be Jack Hoffman…(ugh). Here is a post the Fontes family posted […]
A note from AMRA: We are 14 days from leaving for our dredging trip to Alaska at Gold Fever Prospecting! For those which don’t know about this trip, there are 12 of us going to Chicken AK for two weeks to dredge with a 10″ dredge, an 8″ dredge and three 6″ dredges […]
The long awaited post about Suction Dredging in California Simply put…….Dredging is coming back to California Spring of next year. Firstly, we know you are as skeptical as we are, after all, we’ve been told things over the past 9 years (like rulings from courts and such) which give us hope, but it always ended […]
We are just 23 days from leaving for our Alaska dredge trip at Gold Fever Prospecting out of Chicken on the 40 mile river! There are 12 of us going (not an AMRA funded trip) and we are planning on running a 10″, an 8″ and three 6″ dredges for two weeks. The crew […]
Currently proposed Arizona road closures by BLM and what to do about them: We are currently in Arizona and spoke at the GPAA Gold Fever West Valley Chapter last night about a new proposal by the BLM to close 505 miles of of public land roads under their Travel Management Plan. Most of these […]
SB1222 update: We have been in daily discussions since the bill was brought to the CA Senate Natural Resources Committee nearly two weeks ago. The bill (SB1222) was “stayed” for further discussions after it was clearly shown that Ben Allen’s (D Hollywood) SB637 (the suction dredge bill) had language so vague it was causing […]
From the desk of Shannon Poe, President, AMRA: I’ll get to the meat of what transpired at the state capital yesterday shortly, but first of all would like to thank many who supported this bill and the immense amount of time which was put into it: Uniting is the key to any success. […]