Delta gold diggers

AMRA meets with the CA Water Board

Suction Dredging In California, Permits And Politics   It has now been nearly 3 ½ years since the passage of Senate Bill 637 (SB637) which labeled anything mechanized or motorized as “a suction dredge” and therefore requires a permit from the California Water Board (CAWB) to operate it in the state. The CAWB was mandated […]

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New Video: 3 days in the Gold Belt

This past weekend we took two winners of a 3 day mining trip with AMRA for an amazing mining experience.   Day one……metal detecting Day two……placer mining Day three…lode mining   Along with getting to keep all the gold we found, they get the entire trip filmed and a Youtube video.   Congrats Rod Hall […]

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Exposing the Idaho Conservation League (ICL)

This article is astounding in that Ms. Schumacher, the author researches the money to fund the radical environmental group ICL, Idaho Conservation League.  It is an amazing read and it will likely make your jaw drop open….then the anger sets in. From the article: While George Soros is known to heavily fund progressive agendas, there […]

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Trump administration sues CA over water plan

  Turning the tables on California, the Trump administration sued Thursday to block the state’s ambitious plan to reallocate billions of gallons of river water to salmon and other struggling fish species. The lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Interior injects the Trump administration into one of the biggest California water controversies in years — […]

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California suction dredge update

From the President of AMRA on California suction dredging;   First of all, we would like to apologize for the length of this write up, but it is necessary.   We are pretty sure if you are like us, you’re fed up with over-regulation, dishonest politicians, state agencies delaying their duties under the law and […]

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Idaho enviro’s produce video on suction dredging

Friends of the Clearwater have produced their version of how bad suction dredging is, even though fisheries biologists, studies and science conclusively prove the benefits of dredging to fisheries and plan to show this video to the public.  The meeting, open to the public is in Moscow Idaho on March 25th 7-9pm at the 1912 […]

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Peaceful protest and clean-up with the GPAA in California

We are proud to announce we have partnered with the GPAA/Delta Gold Diggers on another project.   We will be performing a peaceful protest on over-regulation in California and are going to dispel the notion that small miners are just a bunch of knuckle dragging, cousin loving, environmental trashers.   We have selected two areas […]

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A little note about the USFS

Since we have returned from our trip to Idaho we have received an overwhelming number of calls from miners and public land users all across the west with documented problems with the USFS. Problems like ignoring Plans of Operation applications, in some cases for years….they are supposed to respond to them within 30 days. They’ve […]

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California update:

Update on dredging in California:   Yesterday we met with the California Water Board (CAWB) in Sacramento over the permitting of suction dredging for 2019 along with several other mining organizations here in CA.   This is the second meeting in the past 3 weeks and yes, they still do in fact intend on creating […]

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