by Shannon Poe | Jun 2, 2016 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
For several years, while dredging in the South Motherlode and running our concentrates through a spiral wheel, we found that we didn’t set it up properly, and therefore we were dumping much of our gold onto my wife’s rose bushes. Well, a few weeks ago, we...
by Shannon Poe | Jun 1, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Well, we just got done listening to the entire case for Brandon Rinehart at the CA Supreme Court. Our take: Mr. Melnick, the State’s attorney initially sounded nervous and unprepared. He argued Brandon could still mine using other methods, but argued that...
by Shannon Poe | May 31, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
This is an important week. Brandon Rinehart’s case goes before the CA Supreme Court: People v. Rinehart at 2:00 p.m. on June 1, 2016, in the Ronald Reagan State Office Building, 300 South Spring Street, Third Floor, North Tower, Los Angeles, California. We...
by Shannon Poe | May 17, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Many of us have received this letter from the USFS based out of Montana for the issue’s we face in Idaho. As many of you are aware, the USFS and Idaho Dept. of Water Resources (IDWR) is restricting the number of dredges on the SF Clearwater to just 15 this year...
by Shannon Poe | May 6, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
AMRA has just sent this letter to Mr. Trump, Ms. Clinton and Mr. Sanders about where they each stand on our public land issues. As many of you know, we similar sent letters to all of the candidates several months ago and did not have one candidate respond. These are...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 11, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Update on the illegal ban on suction dredging in Idaho: As most of you know, we have been fighting in Northern Idaho for 3 years now with the EPA and USFS over suction dredging on validly held Federally filed mining claims. Many of you sent in letters of...
