by Shannon Poe | May 2, 2022 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Facebook, Highbanking, National, News, News & Events, Outings & Meetings, Top News
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...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 26, 2022 | All About Mining, Facebook, News, News & Events
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...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2022 | All About Mining, Facebook, National, News, News & Events, Valued Partners
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...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 16, 2022 | All About Mining, Facebook, News, News & Events, Valued Partners
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...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 13, 2022 | All About Mining, Facebook, News, News & Events
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,...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 6, 2022 | All About Mining, News, News & Events, Top News
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...
