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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Call to action: A miner in Virginia reached out to us on a proposal in that state to evaluate the activity of gold mining in the state and determine if it should be basically regulated out of existence. We would guarantee those who submitted comments wanting this banned, have no clue what small-scale mining is […]
This weekend…….Portland OR GPAA show: Friday and Saturday, April 9th and 10th is the GPAA gold show in Portland OR and yes, we will be there. This is always a great show with lots of vendors. We will be giving away a week stay at Roaring Camp! As well as some Screamer Mine gold and […]
Correction on Alaska claims: My mistake…..when I was speaking with the owner of the claims in Alaska, he mentioned Nome and in my mind I apparently heard “they are in Nome”, which they are not. The claims, 4 of them are about 80 miles from Nome on the Kougarok River. There is a decent road […]
NOME ALASKA DREDGE CLAIMS ADDED TO AMRA! We have confirmed the addition of 4 dredge claims in Nome Alaska. These are very good river claims just outside of town a few miles. Available for dredging with up to a 6″, or with an additional permit (about $50) you can use an 8″!. Man-O-Man……that is cool!