What your AMRA is working on:

by Shannon Poe | Mar 20, 2015 | News & Events

Update on what your AMRA is working on: USFS: Most of you are aware of the USFS Taser incident and our letter we wrote last week on behalf of our members and others in the public land use community concerning illegal searches. We gave the LEO (Law Enforcement Officer)...

A very important announcement with GPAA and AMRA

by Shannon Poe | Mar 17, 2015 | News & Events

Important announcement: We are extremely pleased to announce that the GPAA and AMRA have joined hands in the fight for mining rights and public land use. GPAA contacted us last week and extended a very generous offer to AMRA. They asked us to host the GPAA raffle at...

Our letter to the USFS, and one you WILL want to read

by Shannon Poe | Mar 13, 2015 | Current Legislation, News & Events

Rita Wears Patrol Commander USFS R5, Angeles NF 444 East Bonita Ave. San Dimas CA 91773 Dear Ms. Wears, March 12, 2015 Thank you for reaching out to us on this extremely critical matter involving your LEO’s in the Stanislaus NF recently. We would have loved to speak...

Miners meeting in Sacramento, March 14th announcement

by Shannon Poe | Mar 12, 2015 | News & Events, Outings & Meetings

Miner’s Meeting this Saturday from 10am to 2pm. PLEASE “SHARE” THIS POST AND LINK………….. We have a packed meeting and want to thank everyone who is attending. This is probably the most important meeting (I can think of) in the...

Urgent call to action against another scheme from the USFS

by Shannon Poe | Mar 10, 2015 | Current Legislation, News & Events

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: The USFS is at it again and plan to close a large area of roads to off-roaders, public land users, hikers, bikers, hunters, fishermen and campers in Southern California. This will happen unless we all write or send an email in opposition to yet...

How do you spell “hypocrisy”? EPA

by Shannon Poe | Mar 10, 2015 | Current Legislation, News & Events

This is a nice little tidbit sent to us from our friends at East Bay Prospectors.  It is an EPA publication in which the EPA, back in 2000 was seeking out suction gold dredgers to clean the rivers and streams of mercury!   Stunning hypocrisy.   For the...

The Gold Show This Weekend was a Success! Our members showed up in force to help out and to show off their AMRA shirts. We can’t thank our members enough for their support. I also would like to thank Sarah and her husband Chris for donating the huge chunk of quartz and gold for one of our upcoming outings. We added a few new members to our group and can’t wait to see them out on the claims. Thanks again to all that showed up and to those that help out.

by John Ratley | Mar 9, 2015 | News & Events, Outings & Meetings

Live broadcast of the Miner’s Meeting March 14th on the internet (listen live)

by Shannon Poe | Mar 8, 2015 | News & Events, Outings & Meetings

Miners Meeting Announcement: We have now set the miners meeting for March 14th (10am to 2pm) in its entirety and wanted to share with everyone how they can participate in this crucial and long overdue uniting of the mining community in California. While we cannot...

Must read, Senate bill 637, another attack.

by Shannon Poe | Mar 5, 2015 | Current Legislation, News & Events

We have included a bill presented by Senator Allen, a far left environmental Senator who is proposing a bill to allow the CA Water Board to require permits for suction dredging.  Here is the bill, and below that is our letter to Senator Allen and to every other...

Oregon miners continually under attack

by Shannon Poe | Mar 4, 2015 | Current Legislation, News & Events

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