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Heading to Alaska in 8 days!

We are just 8 days from arriving in Fairbanks AK to dredge for two weeks.   We will be posting videos every day (weather permitting) of our clean outs and Don Siegel is even growing his beard out so he can pretend to be Jack Hoffman…(ugh).   Here is a post the Fontes family posted […]

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Dredging in California next year

The long awaited post about Suction Dredging in California Simply put…….Dredging is coming back to California Spring of next year. Firstly, we know you are as skeptical as we are, after all, we’ve been told things over the past 9 years (like rulings from courts and such) which give us hope, but it always ended […]

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We are heading to Alaska to dredge in just 23 days

We are just 23 days from leaving for our Alaska dredge trip at Gold Fever Prospecting out of Chicken on the 40 mile river!   There are 12 of us going (not an AMRA funded trip) and we are planning on running a 10″, an 8″ and three 6″ dredges for two weeks. The crew […]

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Dinner in Chino CA, June 2nd………

A video message from AMRA about the upcoming dinner in Chino CA June 2nd  

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California SB1222 hearings this Monday and Wednesday, you NEED to be there

SB1222, a clarification bill on small scale mining in California schedule to follow:   Click on share so people know the time(s) of these Senate hearings. Recently Facebook has been slow rolling out posts…..you can make your own decision on why.   Senate Bill 1222 (SB1222) schedule:   Senate Natural Resources Committee Monday April 16, […]

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A decade long study on logging in OR proves it doesn’t hurt fish habitat if done correctly

This has some far reaching conclusions which should also impact small mining.  A 10 year study on the impacts of logging has concluded that it does not harm fish of fish habitat. For the complete article, click OSU study on trout

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AMRA outing is just 7 days away!

Our first outing of the year is just a week away.!  Remember, these outings are free, are open to the public and is for Saturday April 7th and Sunday April 8th. New to prospecting or curious? Let us know and we will teach you how to pan for gold. You keep whatever gold you find on our mining […]

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AMRA steps up to represent two miners in Nor Cal

9 months ago AMRA was contacted by 2 miners who were on their claim in Northern California. One man was running a sluice upstream and one man was running a high banker downstream. A DFW (Fish and Wildlife) Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) approached them, took the foot valve from their water pump and threatened to […]

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Miners win 100 million from Sacramento county on political influence case

Big mining companies influence politics? You bet.   Do they care if they crush a small miner? Hell no.   http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article139972108.html For the complete article, click HERE

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