by Shannon Poe | Sep 9, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
This article about pot grows in the California Motherlode should infuriate everyone. I honestly cannot remember how many of these we’ve found over the years, it’s too many to count anymore. We just found one last week as a matter of fact. The growers...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 11, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
This is our letter to USFS Chief Tidwell, Congress, the committees which oversee the USFS, BLM and President Trump’s senior staff on behalf of the small miners and the issue’s we are hearing about now almost every day. We are demanding a face to face...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 30, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Giveaways, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
As most of you know, we had one helluva fire up near our home base close to Yosemite. Many of our friends lost everything in their fridge and freezer, some lost their pets, some lost their land and some even lost their homes. Many rely on the meat they had to carry...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 29, 2017 | News & Events
A few weeks ago we brought you a story of 8 miners, one a claim owner allowing his buddies to mine with him and of a DFW (CA Fish and Wildlife) officer confiscating their foot valve on their highbanker alleging they were violating the 5653(g) section of the DFW...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 11, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
Dredging 101 We are frequently asked about dredging and have trained a lot of people how to dredge over the years. Dredgers have their own language (not universal), and when underwater they cannot verbally communicate so we have sign language. This is “our” language...