by Shannon Poe | May 7, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Congress has unsuccessfully tried to reform the Mining Law of 1872 several times over the years, including a near-miss in 1994. It’s high time to try again. The Mining Law President Ulysses Grant signed was the work of Bill Stewart, Nevada’s colorful “Silver Senator,”...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 23, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
April 15 (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said on Monday she would ban all fossil fuel extraction on federal land and in coastal waters, setting herself apart from a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls who have made climate change a...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
California protest on over-regulation, road closures and the suction dredge prohibition: Walk A Mile In Our Shoes……. Please SHARE this post. For a few months now we have been discussing holding and coordinating a significant peaceful protest in California...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 12, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Montana miner is back to work. We were contacted by a miner in Montana a few months ago. He had been denied and delayed on his Plan of Operations for 3 1/2 years by the Forest Service. AMRA stepped in, represented the miner and after one meeting with the USFS we...