We are hosting another live raffle with the GPAA at the Las Vegas show April 22nd and 23rd! Can’t make it to Vegas? Purchase your tickets and watch the raffle live on Facebook! Want to support the small miners? Get your tickets today. We have well over $15,000 in prizes we are going to be […]
Our first outing of the year is just a week away! This is open to anyone and everyone who wants to show up, there is no cost and camping is plentiful! We will have all the AMRA staff there to teach new mining technique’s and to teach anyone how to prospect. Times are 10am to […]
T-Shirt Contest Winners: Congrats and thank you to all who submitted your ideas. We had some outstanding designs and sayings this go ’round. 1st Place: Matt McMcauliffe “My rights don’t end where your feelings begin” Matt is an AMRA Board member so he will not be receiving anything other than another request to donate immense […]
We have long held to the belief that the EPA is the most dangerous government agency in America. They have lost numerous lawsuits for regulatory over-reach, have fined property owners $37,000 per day for digging ponds on their own private property (only to have that reversed by the courts) and have a 7 billion dollar […]
As you all know by now, we are facing some significant challenges with the never ending assault on small mining and public land use all across America. With the election of Mr. Trump, it appears to have some lights shining at the end of that tunnel. Take for example some of these things we […]
We have received an overwhelming response to our post yesterday about President Trump’s Executive Order eliminating the WOTUS (Waters Of The United States) power grab by the EPA. Let’s clear a few things up here; First, the EPA did not have the Constitutional authority to do this rule in the first place as […]
With the stroke of a pen today, President Trump just neutered the EPA’s totalitarian dream of controlling every river, lake, mud puddle, ditch and rain gutter in America. This will have positive effects for small miners. Many may recall we stood up to the EPA for several years in Northern Idaho on the SF Clearwater […]
Does a suction dredge grind fish? NO. We shot this very short video for our presentation during the California Water Board permitting scheme as a result of SB637. It was presented on behalf of the small mining community. A few things to remember: A suction dredge removes 98% of the mercury from waterways. A suction […]
When John Keady, independent miner and owner of Rock Chuck in Schurz, received a certified letter dated Jan. 27, from the United States Department of the Interior – Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Reno, he never dreamt it would be declaring his Last Chance Mine in the Mount Diablo Meridian of Mineral County […]