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 […]
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. […]
So this is pretty exciting. Through a local friend, we were put in contact with Kelly Vermeer, the winner of Forged in Fire (one of our favorite shows obviously) and we are meeting next week to discuss her making a damascus style knife for us….with a screamer gold inlay for the annual AMRA dinner giveaway!. […]
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 are taking our first vacation in well over 10 years and be literally out of the country. Stacy is unavailable and honestly, this is the first time in our history we will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience………
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 is tomorrow! The sun is out up here and the weather will be mid-60’s for the rest of the weekend. Here are directions from Coulterville (about an hour east of Modesto) to the claim and we will have brightly colored signs with arrows at each intersection with AMRA on them pointing […]
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, […]