by Stacy Serrato | Mar 8, 2018 | News & Events
For a quick video explanation of Senate bill 1222, click below, then keep reading Senate Bill 1222 (SB1222), a California Bill on Small Scale Mining BACKGROUND: In 2015 SB637 was introduced, passed, and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The law took effect...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 5, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
These days, Interior spends over $200 million a year buying land. That raises the perennial question: how much is enough? The government already owns 635 million acres, almost a third of the United States. That includes 250 million acres of BLM, 193 million acres of...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 28, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL AMRA MEMBERS AND IDAHO RESIDENTS: We have long talked about RS2477 and the closure of your public roads by regulatory and management agencies. We have good news to report! Representative Priscilla Giddings of Idaho has introduced a new bill,...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 27, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, News & Events
Serious dredgers………… We met some folks at the show in Pomona this past weekend who are as serious about dredging as we are. They are Gold Fever Prospecting out of Chicken Alaska. Picture taken directly from their website This is a family who...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 27, 2018 | All About Mining, News & Events
We’d like to thank several vendors who attended the GPAA gold show down in Pomona this past weekend. Most of these vendors donated to AMRA and we would like to thank them, and encourage you to support them as they support you, and all of the small mining...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 25, 2018 | All About Mining, News & Events
We’re not sure we agree with this geological theory, but it does make one wonder. How do gold nuggets form
by Shannon Poe | Feb 22, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Giveaways, News & Events, Outings & Meetings, Valued Partners
We are happy to announce our June 2nd dinner in Chino California. It will be held at the Planes of Fame and is going to be a blast like the previous 3 dinners we’ve had. Tickets go on sale today and can be purchased on the AMRA website by clicking on the 2018...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 22, 2018 | News & Events, Outings & Meetings
We are packing to today and heading down to Pomona tomorrow for the GPAA Gold Show. Stop by AMRA’s booth and find out what is going on with California’s small mining fight! Pomona GPAA Gold Show
by Shannon Poe | Feb 21, 2018 | All About Mining, News & Events
AMRA is now releasing its educational videos. Our goal is to teach everyone what their rights are as they pertain to public lands and also mining claims. In this video we address if the USFS (Forest Service) can cut the trees down on your mining claim and also what...