by Shannon Poe | Sep 29, 2022 | All About Mining, Facebook, National, News, News & Events, Outings & Meetings, Top News
ITALIAN BAR DISASTER UPDATE: Well folks, persistence pays off and after more than a year, we are finally going to clean up the disaster we’ve all been disgusted by down on Italian Bar along the Stanislaus river. The illegal occupiers are gone and man did they...
by Shannon Poe | Sep 7, 2022 | News & Events
As most of you know, we receive calls, emails and messages almost on a daily basis now from members and other small-scale miners about problems with the USFS (Forest Service). Most can be categorized in two columns: 1) USFS telling the miner a Plan of Opertions (PoO)...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 29, 2022 | News & Events
We sure had a great time down in Roaring Camp this year at the AMRA outing. Honestly, we don’t know of anyone else more generous and kind than the Lague’s who own Roaring Camp. Like a dumbass, I was camping in my little cargo trailer and low and behold I...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 25, 2022 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Facebook, Highbanking, National, News, News & Events, Top News
Please excuse our absence, it’s been rather hectic lately with claims deadlines, deaths of personal friends, upcoming events and other personal issues. That being said, we have had a number of calls lately about NOI’s and POO’s. We wanted to explain...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 14, 2022 | News & Events
The truly disappointing part of this is that we have AMRA members and friends across the western United States right now who are sitting on hundreds of millions, if not billions in rare earth minerals on their mining claims. It’s just that there are so many...