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...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 28, 2019 | All About Mining, News & Events
9th Circuit gets another Trump-picked judge after White House bypasses consultation with Dems – birdpuk Posted on February 27, 2019 by Doug Knowles | No Comments The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Trump’s nominee to be a judge on the liberal 9th Circuit Court...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 27, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation
From Pacific Legal Foundation webpage pacificlegal.org Unelected bureaucrats hold tremendous power over us, thanks to decades of Congress delegating evermore authority subject to the vaguest of constraints. However, Congress has imposed some checks on federal...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 25, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We have penned another letter we are now sending again on a weekly basis to President Trump below. We are also including, along with the letter, a link to a webpage which lists all of the Congressmen in the country. All you have to do is enter your zip code and you...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 24, 2019 | All About Mining, News & Events
OK, they are at it in Arizona again. The Southern Arizona Congressman is expected to unveil legislation that seeks to authorize a permanent 1.7 million acre land grab in Northern Arizona and permanently prohibit mining and other multiple-use activities on this...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 23, 2019 | All About Mining, News & Events
This is an interesting story out of Montana as Kerby Jackson points out: “Not really an unexpected outcome, unfortunately, as these are Post-1955 claims due to a relocation in the 1980’s. Based on my reading of the administrative record, Kornec got...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 21, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
As many of you know by now, we get more complaints of closed roads coming out of Montana now than most other states. Most are because of the Forest Service.This is pretty remarkable and we are reaching out to Senator Jacobson tomorrow to discuss his bill which fines...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 13, 2019 | News & Events
California dredging update:We recently put up a post asking for people to call the Senators who passed SB637 brought forth by Senator Ben Allen (D-Hollywood) called “the suction dredge bill”. It required the CAWB (California Water Board) to evaluate...
