Year: 2015

New emergency rules for Washington State

In a stunning move, Washington has adopted “emergency rules” for suction dredging. The new rules limit the times one can dredge, and in some cases, stop dredging entirely.  These new rules are not based on any science, but would appear to be payback for the small mining community stopping the bill to ban dredging earlier […]

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We are removing two AMRA claims

AMRA Members: PLP informed us today they have decided to remove access to the two claims Jerry Hobbs had donated access to AMRA members. As most of you know, Jerry was a good friend, mentor and Jerry gave AMRA access to assist in getting AMRA the firm place it has in the small mining community. […]

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AMRA President Shannon Poe to do live broadcast Sunday 8/16

Join AMRA President Shannon Poe on the live broadcast this coming Sunday on Gold Prospector Space (links below). He will be discussing all of the problems with the USFS, EPA and other regulatory and management agencies and their overstepping their authority. He will talking about AMRA’s recent trip to Idaho where the team and members […]

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AMRA Outing Tomorrow and Sunday!

Join us for our outing tomorrow and Sunday at our claims called “The Office” located about 17 miles from Coulterville CA. The outing runs from 10am to 4pm daily with drawings for prizes at 3pm each day. This is open to the public and is entirely free. We welcome anyone who wants to learn about […]

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We are back from Idaho

We are now back from Idaho. We wanted to thank all the miners who stood up to this unbelievable illegal activity by the USFS in Idaho over the past two weeks. Here’s where we are and where we are going now: We are going after Clint Hughes individually. We are going after the USFS. We […]

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New Outing Date

We have another outing planned and want to see everyone there! Members, non-members, kids, general public, all are welcome. This outing is open to everyone for FREE! YES FREE! August 8th-9th at “The Office” Back to work NO! This is the name of the claim about 20 miles East of Coulterville. There is still good […]

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Final push in Mariposa County CA

The final push in Mariposa County and the Supervisor Smallcombe’s Conflict of Interest on the Conditional Use Permitting scheme (CUP). We are asking for your help in one last push on this horrid attempt to create yet another layer of bureaucracy on mining. There are numerous laws, regulations and agencies which regulate mining activities, even […]

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Urgent call to action in Mariposa County

URGENT UPDATE ON MARIPOSA COUNTY: We had truly believed the radical Liberal Supervisor, Rosemarie Smallcombe would have recused herself by now, but she has not, even after numerous letters demanding her recusal for the conflict of interest stated below. We need to light up her Facebook page calling for her recusal immediately or face an […]

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Final push to stop SB637 in California

The final push is next Tuesday to stop this ridiculous Senate Bill, SB637 which will create yet another layer of regulation and permitting schemes for suction dredging in California. As most of you know by now, this is about mercury and there have been lies upon lies about mercury and suction dredging coming from Sierra […]

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