Brandon Rinehart case is petitioned to the Supreme Court of the United States

by Shannon Poe | Feb 3, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, News & Events

Pacific Legal Foundation, who is representing Brandon Rinehart on his suction dredge case has confirmed the case has been received by SCOTUS for petition to be heard.   We support you Brandon, completely and support PLF for taking your case.  ...

Miners angry about proposed regulations

by Shannon Poe | Jan 26, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, News & Events

This is an article from Redding where we just attended the CA Water Board public comment meetings on the new SB 637 suction dredge permitting scheme.   Miners angry about proposed regulation

CA Water Board meeting videos

by Shannon Poe | Jan 18, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

Here are the first 3 parts of the CA Water Board meeting in Fresno held on January 17, 2017:   Part one, Russell Norman, CAWB Part 2, Craig Lindsay, WMA, Western Mining Alliance: Part 3 Shannon Poe,...

Can President Trump roll back the executive actions on national monuments?

by Shannon Poe | Jan 12, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events

There is much dispute over whether or not Mr. Obama should have designated millions and millions of acres of public lands as National Monuments.  Much of this was done without the majority of public support, but based on his ideology.   Trump “Open” To...

Yet another attempt to close nearly 4 million acres

by Shannon Poe | Nov 12, 2015 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

Yet another attempt by activists running our government to eliminate small mining: Do you know how big 3.8 million acres is? It is nearly the size of Massachusetts. It is 3 times the size of Delaware. This is the size of the area that is being proposed right now to be...