by Shannon Poe | Mar 17, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Last fall we took a reporter from KQED in the Bay area of California out to hunt for some gold. Here is his article: Right after we meet, Shannon Poe asks me if I’m a) allergic to poison oak and b) freaked out by ghosts. Because where we’re going, he says, there’s a...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 28, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL AMRA MEMBERS AND IDAHO RESIDENTS: We have long talked about RS2477 and the closure of your public roads by regulatory and management agencies. We have good news to report! Representative Priscilla Giddings of Idaho has introduced a new bill,...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 27, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, News & Events
Serious dredgers………… We met some folks at the show in Pomona this past weekend who are as serious about dredging as we are. They are Gold Fever Prospecting out of Chicken Alaska. Picture taken directly from their website This is a family who...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 18, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
I grew up in Oregon and loved that state. Over the past few decades, the state has changed politically and quite dramatically. They have effectively, like California, banned or are attempting to ban most methods of small mining in the state. Now they are requiring...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 17, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
This video is of an epic fight some ranchers on the Oregon/Idaho border have had with the BLM over water rights. This also brings up some very, very valuable points on small mining and water rights. We strongly urge you to watch this, see how this family won this case...