gold mining

Suction dredging and the fight in California

A new article by the Desert Sun on the fight here in California. Please folks, post a comment on the Desert Sun and be heard: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/29/suction-dredge-mining-advocates-foes-regroup-after-clarifying-legislation-grinds-halt/742999002/ Or simply click Suction dredge mining advocates foes regroup after clarifying legislation grind to a halt

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What to do if you’re missing a leg for your Gold Cube

If you are in the middle of nowhere and need to run a gold cube but only have three legs, what do you do? Steal one from a moose of course. Worked like a champ for three days when i found the 4th leg and we had to move.   This was an ingenious fix […]

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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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Heading to Alaska in 14 days!

A note from AMRA:   We are 14 days from leaving for our dredging trip to Alaska at Gold Fever Prospecting!   For those which don’t know about this trip, there are 12 of us going to Chicken AK for two weeks to dredge with a 10″ dredge, an 8″ dredge and three 6″ dredges […]

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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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Arizona road closures and the BLM ignoring state law

Currently proposed Arizona road closures by BLM and what to do about them:   We are currently in Arizona and spoke at the GPAA Gold Fever West Valley Chapter last night about a new proposal by the BLM to close 505 miles of of public land roads under their Travel Management Plan. Most of these […]

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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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Do you want to learn how to file your own mining claim?

Do you want your own mining claim? In keeping with our promise a few months ago, we have begun shooting one of the educational video’s you had requested for our Youtube page. HOW TO FILE A MINING CLAIM This very detailed several part video will show you how to file your own mining claim. It […]

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