by Shannon Poe | Apr 11, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Update on the illegal ban on suction dredging in Idaho: As most of you know, we have been fighting in Northern Idaho for 3 years now with the EPA and USFS over suction dredging on validly held Federally filed mining claims. Many of you sent in letters of...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 23, 2016 | All About Mining, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
As of today, AMRA is three years old. This is the story of AMRA (revisited): Spending decades wearing a suit and tie in the executive corporate world, I was becoming frustrated with the politics, sitting in court rooms, administering lawsuits, public speaking, doing...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 7, 2016 | All About Mining, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
AMRA outing reminder. February 13th and 14th at “The Office”! We will have signs (AMRA with arrows) pointing each turn from Coulterville (1 hour east of Modesto), at highway 49 all the way to the claims and outing location, simply follow the...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 15, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
7 letters we are sending today on behalf of small miners and public land users. These letters are addressed to: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. This is not an endorsement of any one candidate, we...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 3, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Giveaways, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
What AMRA is currently working on: We are writing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) on the USFS. We aren’t going to say which USFS office we are doing, nor are we going to outline what we are going to FOIA, we’d like that to be a surprise to them. But do...