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 […]
A video message from AMRA about the upcoming dinner in Chino CA June 2nd
Do you want your own mining claim? In keeping with our promise a few months ago, we have begun shooting one of the educational video’s you had requested for our Youtube page. HOW TO FILE A MINING CLAIM This very detailed several part video will show you how to file your own mining claim. It […]
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. […]
SB1222, a clarification bill on small scale mining in California schedule to follow: Click on share so people know the time(s) of these Senate hearings. Recently Facebook has been slow rolling out posts…..you can make your own decision on why. Senate Bill 1222 (SB1222) schedule: Senate Natural Resources Committee Monday April 16, […]
As we face another big rain storm this coming weekend, we regretfully announce the cancellation of this outing. For safety purposes, we feel that the ground is just too unstable in the area to responsibly hold an outing. Safety is a primary concern for the AMRA staff. We were looking forward to this outing just […]