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BLM to close more lands in Nor-Cal unless you act

BLM (Bureau of Land Management) in California is trying to close more and more public lands in Nor-Cal. We have written a letter opposing this on your behalf and encourage you to submit your comments to oppose this closure. Navigating their proposal and trying to understand the content of their plan is a bit challenging […]

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Update on Italian Bar disaster

Italian Bar disaster update: As you know now, we’ve been trying to get the Stanislaus NF to evict the illegal occupiers down on Italian Bar road for close to a year now. We’ve shot videos of the trash, sewage, dumped batteries, a vehicle which was in the river and provided evidence of how a mining […]

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What can the USFS do with mining claims?

We field tons of calls, emails and questions about the USFS and what they can, and cannot do as it relates to mining claims.   Here is the 2800 manual which is the bible for the USFS on precisely that.   We encourage you to read, open the PDF, print it and keep a copy […]

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Political activism on the judicial bench

A judge in California has now ruled that bees are fish and can be protected under the CA endangered species act. No, we are not kidding. And people wonder why we can’t dredge. Political ideology is truly destroying our state, and country. For the complete article, which we encourage you to read, click Judicial activism

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Diesel costs up 75%

We use diesel for our dozer and other heavy equipment to mine. Truckers shipping most all goods, farmers for their tractors. This is not by coincidence, it is not caused by Russia and we honestly don’t care what the Facebook fact-checkers say. For the complete article, click HERE

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Let the adventure begin!

This week is going to be fun as hell. One of the grand prizes we give away at our annual AMRA dinner each December is a 3 day mining trip with AMRA President Shannon Poe. Bruce and Leslie start their experience tomorrow morning. Up first….Screamer Mine! Want a trip like this? Come to our dinner […]

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Oceano Dunes and fraudulent science

Most of you know that we’ve been watching and have been involved in fighting this Oceano Dunes fight for some time. Looks like they used flawed science in this, just like dredging. For the complete article, click HERE

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About the USFS citing AMRA President Shannon Poe this past weekend:

We wanted to let everyone know that the arrest/citation of AMRA President Shannon Poe for “defrauding an inn-keeper” (actually a sub-contracted garbage collection company hired by the USFS) is at the top of our priority list. The absurdity of this criminal citation, the volume of laws, regulations and rights violated by the USFS will not […]

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Video explanation of the citation USFS gave to Shannon Poe

This video was shot as the LEO was leaving the campground in La Panza. Click on the link directly below for the video: USFS LEO cites Shannon Poe        

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Accountability and the USFS

After our post yesterday about the USFS absurdly citing AMRA President Shannon Poe for “defrauding an inn keeper”, we wanted to bring up the solution to rogue agents and rogue behavior by agencies such as the USFS and BLM.   A few years ago, AMRA’s COO (Chief Operating Officer) Connie had an epiphany while she […]

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