by Shannon Poe | Jul 7, 2025 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Giveaways, National, News, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
As you may recall, we posted that Senator Lee proposed selling off some public lands for housing. He has now retracted that proposal. For the full article click HERE
by Shannon Poe | Sep 7, 2022 | News & Events
As most of you know, we receive calls, emails and messages almost on a daily basis now from members and other small-scale miners about problems with the USFS (Forest Service). Most can be categorized in two columns: 1) USFS telling the miner a Plan of Opertions (PoO)...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 3, 2022 | News & Events
We are helping three different miners right now in three different states which have had people top file on their claims. This is a common call we receive and would like to provide some education on the subject. A “top file” is a label miners use when...
by Shannon Poe | May 16, 2022 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Facebook, National, News, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
We are going to be writing tomorrow, in detail about an altercation we had during our outing on the “real property mining claim” we were at for our event near Atascadero CA over this past weekend. We ask you to share this topic each time we post it so...
by Shannon Poe | May 6, 2022 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, National, News, News & Events, Top News
We received this message yesterday from some friends and fellow miners we have in South Dakota. Read the absurdity in what the USFS is saying, and doing here folks.”Hey Shannon, wanted to give you a heads up that the us forest service in south dakota is starting...