All About Mining

AMRA President Shannon Poe cited at an AMRA outing by USFS

We are going to be writing tomorrow, in detail about an altercation we had during our outing on the “real property mining claim” we were at for our event near Atascadero CA over this past weekend. We ask you to share this topic each time we post it so everyone can see just how the […]

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Contender outing May 14th/15th near San Luis Obispo

We are only a week away from our outing down in La Panza, near Paso Robles at The Contender claim. Catered dinner for those who sign up, metal detecting hunt, great gold and thousands of dollars in prizes for our raffle. This event is open to the public, as our claim is as well and […]

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USFS blocking small-scale miners in S. Dakota

We received this message yesterday from some friends and fellow miners we have in South Dakota. Read the absurdity in what the USFS is saying, and doing here folks. “Hey Shannon, wanted to give you a heads up that the us forest service in south dakota is starting to prohibit miners from working their claims. […]

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Proper mining terms explained.

We tend to be a bit critical of proper spelling and naming of mining terms, here’s the glossary of terms for lode mining (not load).   https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1165780/000116578003000001/glossary.htm?fbclid=IwAR1oHxluNGVXm8W2TqEujPiLyoPyCL–k39Cdv0z9cua2Spc1jXbxAgFiIo

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An important update on what we’re working on

We are back from our vacation now and ready to get back to work on some major issues on our plate:   USFS and Italian Bar disaster. We sent a certified letter along our partners, Blue Ribbon Coalition demanding answers on why the USFS doesn’t clear this designated recreation area from the trash and squatters […]

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Talk about dangerous!

We use some pretty serious acids when cleaning up our gold and gold specimens, mostly nitric acid. Our good buddy Dave Varabioff uses some really serious acid (hydroflouric) and we considered obtaining some to eat some quartz away from a really nice specimen we want to expose…..until we asked some of these experts on their […]

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A conversation with Gary Drayton and Kevin Hoagland

Podcast on Facebook Tuesday the 26th: Hear from Curse of Oak Island’s Gary Drayton and Lost Gold of the Aztec’s Kevin Hoagland on their finds, current expeditions and more. Don’t miss new episodes of The Curse of Oak Island, Tuesday at 9/8c and Lost Gold of The Aztecs, Tuesday at 10/9c. https://www.facebook.com/events/543328037353040/?ref=newsfeed

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AMRA’s first free public outing of the year April 23rd, 24th.

Our first outing of the year is next weekend, April 23rd and 24th at our claims near Coulterville CA. We’ll post directions later this coming week. We open all our claims up in this area to anyone….for free, no charge and you don’t need to be a member. There is a huge camping area, plenty […]

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Let it burn…..

Two years ago all of us California residents paid 1.5 billion (with a B) for Gavin Newsom’s Wildfire Prevention Program. To date, not a single project has been completed, not one. Maybe if we just give them more money that will solve the deadlock? Nope, it’s the radical environmental groups stopping everything along with CEQA, […]

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Italian Bar update

Italian Bar update: The Stanislaus National Forest has signed for, and received our (AMRA and Blue Ribbon Coalition) certified letter demanding their justification for doing nothing to remove the illegal campers/miners at Italian Bar. Now the clock starts ticking and it will also be us exhausting our administrative remedies with them. In legal terms, it’s […]

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