by Shannon Poe | Nov 20, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
Our thoughts on Interior Secretary Zinke moving the departments/agencies tasked with managing our public lands out of Washington DC is pretty simple. We’d rather have these folks be available to the folks affected by their management and be in the heart of the...
by Shannon Poe | Nov 17, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
As most of you can imagine, we get a ton of emails and calls on new bills, laws and movements by enviro groups to further take away the public lands from you…..who owns the lands. Right now there are attacks in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California to further...
by Shannon Poe | Nov 3, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
We’ve posted many time that mining claim owners have fundamental rights, rights of access, rights to the minerals in the ground and that others like snowmobile users, hikers, campers and hunters have “privileges” to use our public lands. Well, here...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 28, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
A good read on just how hard it is to be a small miner in Oregon: Oregon gold miner faces unbelievable challenges
by Shannon Poe | Oct 27, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
Only the USFS could come up with this oxymoron. Definition of oxymoron plural oxymora play \ˌäk-si-ˈmȯr-ə, -sē-\ :a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness); broadly Gate the roads to keep the public off of their own lands, then...