AMRA makes donations to Brandon Rinehart and WMA

by Shannon Poe | Feb 20, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings

As many of you know, AMRA is the single largest financial contributor by far to the Brandon Rinehart suction dredge Supreme Court case here in CA, and in keeping with our promise to Brandon and his family to fund him at every opportunity, the AMRA board voted...

Update on the permitting scheme in California to run a pump.

by Shannon Poe | Feb 16, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

Update on California, SB637 and permits for any motorized mining in California: SB637 was passed and signed into law by Gov. Brown Jan 2nd. It states you need a permit from the CA Water Board who then states you need a 402 or 404 permit from the Army Corps of...

Congressman McClintock supporting public lands

by Shannon Poe | Jan 31, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

We like to inform everyone when a politician does the right thing, which we all know is rare. We have worked with Congressman McClintock on many issues in the past, most notably, the USFS problems we have all seen and know about now involving the Taser incident and...

Important message about the USFS

by Shannon Poe | Jan 27, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

Important message regarding the USFS in California: We have been working with a leading TV news organization on a factual story regarding the USFS and all the problems we personally have encountered, or our members and supporters have encountered. Issue’s like...

Dear Presidential candidate

by Shannon Poe | Jan 15, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

7 letters we are sending today on behalf of small miners and public land users. These letters are addressed to: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.  This is not an endorsement of any one candidate, we...

WMA Newsletter – January

by Jim Hamilton | Jan 11, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

For those that have not had the opportunity to read the excellent newsletter put out by the Western Mining Alliance, we wanted to pass it along to you. The WMA does a lot of work behind the scenes such as 100’s of hours of research. To read more about them and...