Year: 2016

Update on dredging in Idaho

Many of us have received this letter from the USFS based out of Montana for the issue’s we face in Idaho. As many of you are aware, the USFS and Idaho Dept. of Water Resources (IDWR) is restricting the number of dredges on the SF Clearwater to just 15 this year and requiring the miners […]

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Spotted Frog in Oregon now the latest Spotted Owl

We have had some significant laptop issues lately, so we apologize for the lack of posting. This has been corrected now with a brand new Mac… Now….back to the endless barrage of government taking away your rights. This one is the Spotted Frog up in Oregon.   http://www.veritasresearchconsulting.com/FR/FR-11May16-USFWS-TE-Critical_Habitat_for_OR_Spotted_Frog.pdf

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New Super Cool GPS app for mining claims

New product we are excited about and are equally excited we get to beta test this cool product! Miner’s Mark is a new app created by a fellow miner and long time friend of ours. It’s going to eliminate the problem of wondering whether or not you are on your claim, your clubs claim, an […]

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AMRA writes letters to each of the Presidential candidates

AMRA has just sent this letter to Mr. Trump, Ms. Clinton and Mr. Sanders about where they each stand on our public land issues. As many of you know, we similar sent letters to all of the candidates several months ago and did not have one candidate respond. These are being sent certified and we’ll […]

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Update on what AMRA is doing.

You may have noticed AMRA has not posted as frequently as we normally do lately. There is a reason for that and it is because we have many, many things going on behind the scenes which we do not want the regulatory and management agencies to catch wind of quite yet.   USFS, EPA, DFG, […]

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Idaho suction dredge permits

Update on Idaho and the USFS restricting the number of dredges on the SF Clearwater:   We have been working behind the scenes on this issue and will be coming out with additional information shortly but we wanted to ask if anyone has applied for the permit through IDWR?   If you have applied for […]

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AMRA outing directions

We are all set up at the outing, but wanted to let everyone know again the directions to get there. We have a person who tore down our markers twice today, he doesn’t know yet that we filmed him……we will address that. Just in case he decides to tear down our arrows again, here are […]

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Mining equipment theft in Kirkland WA

REWARD>>>>>>>Lets catch a thief: Very recently, one of our lifetime members from Kirkland WA had his Wells Cargo trailer full of mining equipment stolen from the storage facility there. Together, we can catch this &%##. Lets all scour Craigslist, Ebay and anywhere else a thief might sell this equipment. AMRA is putting up a lifetime […]

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AMRA President to be on Gold Radio Talk 4/19/2016 at 4pm

AMRA President Shannon Poe will be streaming live on Gold Radio Talk Tuesday 4/19/2016 to discuss the state of small mining and public lands.  4pm Pacific time.   Tune in to the broadcast here: http://www.goldradiotalk.com/

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AMRA update 4/17/16

We are done with both gold shows. U[ at the GPAA show in Seattle,Tom says it was fantastic! New members, lots of interest and the GPAA was extremely generous in giving AMRA the raffle to host up there. Thank you GPAA! We had another exceptional day at the ICMJ show in Placerville. We had two […]

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