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A decade long study on logging in OR proves it doesn’t hurt fish habitat if done correctly

This has some far reaching conclusions which should also impact small mining.  A 10 year study on the impacts of logging has concluded that it does not harm fish of fish habitat. For the complete article, click OSU study on trout

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AMRA outing is just 7 days away!

Our first outing of the year is just a week away.!  Remember, these outings are free, are open to the public and is for Saturday April 7th and Sunday April 8th. New to prospecting or curious? Let us know and we will teach you how to pan for gold. You keep whatever gold you find on our mining […]

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt plans to halt the “secret science” underpinning his agency’s regulations, opening a conversation about how studies can be weaponized in favor of onerous regulations without additional scrutiny and the transparency involved in determining how data and methodology are pursued or analyzed by outside researchers.   For the complete […]

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AMRA steps up to represent two miners in Nor Cal

9 months ago AMRA was contacted by 2 miners who were on their claim in Northern California. One man was running a sluice upstream and one man was running a high banker downstream. A DFW (Fish and Wildlife) Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) approached them, took the foot valve from their water pump and threatened to […]

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Miners win 100 million from Sacramento county on political influence case

Big mining companies influence politics? You bet.   Do they care if they crush a small miner? Hell no.   http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article139972108.html For the complete article, click HERE

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Dredging in Alaska with a huge dredge?

Most of you know by now that several of the AMRA staff have ponied up some personal funds and we (there are 12 of us) taking a trip to Alaska to dredge in a little over 2 months!   We are going to be filming every single day and will have some amazing clean outs […]

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Treasure Hunters Claim Pennsylvania State Officials Blocking Dig for Lost Civil War Gold

Treasure Hunters Claim Pennsylvania State Officials Blocking Dig for Lost Civil War Gold Treasure hunters on the trail of a lost Civil War gold shipment claim they have discovered the fortune in a remote location of Pennsylvania, but state and federal authorities have blocked them from digging it up, reports say. The treasure hunters, calling […]

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A Latter-Day Miner Still Chasing The Gold Rush Dream

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 lot of […]

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Dredge trip to Alaska!

Two weeks dredging in Alaska………   12 of us have pulled the trigger and have booked a two week dredge trip at Gold Fever Prospecting in Alaska. We will be going on the 8th of June and be there for two weeks.   They offer all inclusive trips, food, lodging and they supply the dredges, […]

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Incapable of caring for what it has, federal government continues to gobble up land

These days, Interior spends over $200 million a year buying land. That raises the perennial question: how much is enough? The government already owns 635 million acres, almost a third of the United States. That includes 250 million acres of BLM, 193 million acres of national forests, 84 million acres of national parks, and 150 […]

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