by Shannon Poe | Apr 7, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
New videos: Tomorrow we begin editing several new videos after months of filming. We shot a video with our buddy Dave Varabioff from Gold Bay who owns the Colorado mine in the south motherlode and found some pretty amazing gold metal detecting his contact zone in his...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 7, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Facebook, Giveaways, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings, Valued Partners
We post far more on our Facebook page than we do on the website because of traffic to the page. We’ve added a simple tab at the top of our page where all the articles we post on there can be accessed from our website now as well. Just click on our Facebook...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 29, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Turning the tables on California, the Trump administration sued Thursday to block the state’s ambitious plan to reallocate billions of gallons of river water to salmon and other struggling fish species. The lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Interior injects the...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 28, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Have you ever thought of walking across America for a cause? We have milled the idea of a few of us AMRA staff walking from California to Washington DC to have a face to face meeting with the Trump administration over the problems small miners and public land...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 23, 2019 | News & Events
From the President of AMRA on California suction dredging; First of all, we would like to apologize for the length of this write up, but it is necessary. We are pretty sure if you are like us, you’re fed up with over-regulation, dishonest politicians, state...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 14, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We have been talking about the Bohmker case in Oregon for some time now which is being presented to the United States Supreme Court. We had the privilege of meeting Josh Bohmker and his two children this past weekend at the Fresno GPAA gold show and would like to...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 12, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
Friends of the Clearwater have produced their version of how bad suction dredging is, even though fisheries biologists, studies and science conclusively prove the benefits of dredging to fisheries and plan to show this video to the public. The meeting, open to the...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 6, 2019 | All About Mining, Giveaways
We wanted to take a minute and thank Roaring Camp for the fantastic donation of a week at their gold camp in California. We held a raffle down in Phoenix this past weekend at the GPAA gold show and announced the winner. Boy was she excited when we called her name....
by Shannon Poe | Mar 6, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
From our friends at Pacific Legal Foundation: The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, in which PLF filed a friend-of-the-court brief. This case is about whether the Clean Water Act regulates pollution that reaches surface water...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 5, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We wanted to repost a video from our good friend Tom Kitchar from the Waldo Mining District up in Oregon. Tom is leading the fight with the Bohmker suction dredge case many of us are supporting and hopefully will be going to the United States Supreme Court. This is a...