by Shannon Poe | Mar 18, 2018 | All About Mining, News & Events
Treasure Hunters Claim Pennsylvania State Officials Blocking Dig for Lost Civil War Gold Treasure hunters on the trail of a lost Civil War gold shipment claim they have discovered the fortune in a remote location of Pennsylvania, but state and federal authorities have...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 17, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Last fall we took a reporter from KQED in the Bay area of California out to hunt for some gold. Here is his article: Right after we meet, Shannon Poe asks me if I’m a) allergic to poison oak and b) freaked out by ghosts. Because where we’re going, he says, there’s a...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 11, 2018 | All About Mining, News & Events
Two weeks dredging in Alaska……… 12 of us have pulled the trigger and have booked a two week dredge trip at Gold Fever Prospecting in Alaska. We will be going on the 8th of June and be there for two weeks. They offer all inclusive trips, food,...
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
