Siskiyou County, Calif. — UPDATE: The two fires have merged into one and is called the Lumgrey Fire. It is now 180 acres. It has jumped the Klamath River. Highway 96 is closed due to the fire. Evacuation warnings are still in place for Dutch Creek and Empire Creek. (Updated 6/17/19 at 10:01 p.m.) UPDATE: Crews […]
Miners in Arizona win suit blocking copper mine: On Thursday last week (June 6, 2019) the Superior Court of Arizona ordered that Florence Copper be awarded $1,700,000 in attorneys’ fees and $32,365.55 in costs. These fees and costs must now be paid by the Town of Florence. The Town had challenged the company’s right […]
Here is our letter going out to each of the 11 counties our protest walk will be traveling through. We will be following up with calls challenging each sheriff and elected county official to walk a mile in our shoes with us. Greetings Plumas, Sierra, Yuba, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa […]
Tuesday, the AMRA staff taught the Greeley Hill school students how to pan…….all of them. What a great time and all of the kids went home with a little vial of gol, just in time for summer break! Next year we hope to take them all out to a claim and teach them […]
From our good friend Justin Karr in Washington: The average length of time it took BLM and the Forest Service to complete the first three steps of the mine plan review process and approve 68 mine plans from fiscal years 2010 through 2014 was approximately 2 years. However, the time varied widely, ranging from about […]
All the off-roaders, atv’ers and Jeep runners, fishermen and even hunters: This is what you are facing. Groups “posing” as sportsman’s clubs, fishing clubs and off road groups…all for their Utopian wet dream ideology. Trout Unlimited is against small scale mining, all forms, everywhere. Fight on Patriots……… Click the link here:
Our outing is just two days away! How would you like to win a week at the world famous Roaring Camp Mining Company in the heart of the Mother Lode of California? If you haven’t been there, you should go. We did and it was awesome. Probably the most relaxing week we’ve had in […]
DUCK RACES THIS WEEKEND!!! We have decided to bring back the wildly popular duck races for this weekends free to the public outing at our claims called “The Office” on bull creek out of Coulterville CA. We’ve got thousands of dollars worth of prizes, will be having the duck races, have staff on-site to teach […]
How cool would it be if all of us joined hands against the destruction of our access to public lands, the destruction of our rural communities and ridiculous laws passed to make you pay dearly for insane policies? California is rapidly becoming intolerable. Miners, ranchers, farmers, hikers, hunters, fishermen and other public land users. People […]
AMRA President Shannon Poe will be on Gold Prospectors Space Radio tonight talking about the Walk 4 Liberty and what is going on with the California Water Board, suction dredging and the state of mining. 4:30pm (Pacific) Sunday June 2nd. Tune in below, join us and call in with any questions Gold Prospectors Space Radio […]