News & Events

Defiant suction dredge miners in Oregon tell authorities to “drop dead”.

Published in the mail tribune in Oregon, Galice mining district miners are fed up. For the article, click http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20160114/NEWS/160119773/101033/NEWS

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Dear Presidential candidate

7 letters we are sending today on behalf of small miners and public land users. These letters are addressed to: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.  This is not an endorsement of any one candidate, we are only showing the template of the letters being sent. […]

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Feds to ban mining claims for 20 years

So the Federal Government didn’t get their closure of millions of acres of land due to the grouse, so they are just going to eliminate mining claims from being filed for the next 20 years. Sick of this yet?   For the article in the Elko Daily Free Press click HERE

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WMA Newsletter – January

For those that have not had the opportunity to read the excellent newsletter put out by the Western Mining Alliance, we wanted to pass it along to you. The WMA does a lot of work behind the scenes such as 100’s of hours of research. To read more about them and what they do to […]

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What is AMRA working on this year?

What AMRA is currently working on: We are writing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) on the USFS. We aren’t going to say which USFS office we are doing, nor are we going to outline what we are going to FOIA, we’d like that to be a surprise to them. But do know that we […]

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Idaho: USFS scheme to limit suction dredging. CALL TO ACTION

  As you are undoubtedly aware, many management and regulatory agencies are going full speed to stop suction dredging.  The USFS is no different and has proposed a new scheme to restrict the number of dredges they will allow in Northern Idaho down to just a handful.  They are claiming they need to do this […]

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Another economy and mining killing Executive Order

This just in, Mr. Obama has just signed a Presidential Memorandum (Executive Order) commanding the EPA, DFG, USFS, BLM and other management and regulatory agencies to adopt new regulations to further mitigate potential harm to the environment. Here is a segment of this memorandum: Section 1. Policy. It shall be the policy of the Departments […]

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FPPC releases findings on Sierra Fund

We gave an extensive interview for this article and they eliminated all of the statement where we talked about the over $6,000,000 Sierra Fund has received of the tax payer money to dredge while real miners are arrested and their equipment is confiscated. Fact: modern suction dredges remove 98% of the mercury from the rivers […]

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How about some good news?

As most of you know by now, AMRA represents miners (when we have the funds) who are wrongfully cited by government agencies, are harassed by the same agencies and are being told they need permits to do one thing or another.   In 2014, two men were cited in CA for dredging without a permit.  […]

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Yet another attempt to close nearly 4 million acres

Yet another attempt by activists running our government to eliminate small mining: Do you know how big 3.8 million acres is? It is nearly the size of Massachusetts. It is 3 times the size of Delaware. This is the size of the area that is being proposed right now to be eliminated from mineral entry […]

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