Year: 2014

Update on the road closures, gates and boulders in California

Many of you know we had a meeting with Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor Susan Skalski about the gates, boulders blocking camping and mining areas and their violations of Federal law in denying the small miners access to their claims.  Here is a recap of that meeting from yesterday: The meeting lasted for over 2 hours […]

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A word from AMRA about access to federal mining claims

Most of you may not know we possess (collectively) many decades of legal and litigation experience showing that miners are not just uninformed, uneducated folks with scratchy beards and missing teeth as our opposition seems to picture us. We have many cases in our files concerning miners rights, but this link here probably is the […]

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AMRA Outing in Groveland May 31st and June 1st, Public Welcome

We will be having an outing at our claim “Albie 2” on old highway 120 just outside of Groveland this Saturday and Sunday.   The general public is invited and it will be a fun weekend. We are bringing in 1000 gallons of water for everyone to use. Raffle items include: GOLD! Shirts Mining equipment […]

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Yellow legged frog listed despite 40,000 comments

This is a prime example of an agency which does not care one bit about public opinion or common sense.  This SHOULD infuriate you. JOIN US, TOGETHER WE CAN FIGHT THIS   Yellow Legged Frog to get 2 million acres

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CA Road closure update

Road closure update: As most of your probably know, we recently met with two Congressmen over the hundreds of thousands of acres of roads in the Stanislaus NF which were closed under the guise of “public safety concerns” due to the rim fire by Supervisor Skalski. We had sent Skalski a detailed letter demanding answers […]

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DFG meeting over newly proposed suction dredge regulations June 5th in Sacramento

Plain Text Regulations 02172012 UPDATE:  This meeting has been quietly moved to June 11th at 3pm.  Please try and attend.   DFG public hearing: There will be a public meeting on June 5th, 3pm – 5pm in Sacramento over the new (massively over intrusive) regulations for suction dredging in California. AMRA will be there, and […]

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AMRA Outing May 31st – June 1st

We will be having an AMRA outing at our claim “Albie 2” located just outside of Groveland CA on Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st. The claim is just south of Groveland on old highway 120 (loops back around to highway 120) right next to Yosemite Pines RV Park. Head southeast from Groveland towards […]

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Update on suction dredging in California

California gold dredgers edge closer to dredging in California!

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