Year: 2018

Incapable of caring for what it has, federal government continues to gobble up land

These days, Interior spends over $200 million a year buying land. That raises the perennial question: how much is enough? The government already owns 635 million acres, almost a third of the United States. That includes 250 million acres of BLM, 193 million acres of national forests, 84 million acres of national parks, and 150 […]

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CALL TO ACTION

CALL TO ACTION FOR ALL AMRA MEMBERS AND IDAHO RESIDENTS: We have long talked about RS2477 and the closure of your public roads by regulatory and management agencies. We have good news to report! Representative Priscilla Giddings of Idaho has introduced a new bill, H0637 which firmly requires the perpetual access to roads predating FLPMA […]

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Are you a serious miner?

Serious dredgers………… We met some folks at the show in Pomona this past weekend who are as serious about dredging as we are. They are Gold Fever Prospecting out of Chicken Alaska. Picture taken directly from their website This is a family who moved from Grass Valley CA, sold everything and opened an amazing dredge […]

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A big thank you to all the vendors in Pomona

We’d like to thank several vendors who attended the GPAA gold show down in Pomona this past weekend. Most of these vendors donated to AMRA and we would like to thank them, and encourage you to support them as they support you, and all of the small mining community.   Roaring Camp Keene Engineering Gold […]

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A very interesting theory on gold behaving like chewing gum

We’re not sure we agree with this geological theory, but it does make one wonder.   How do gold nuggets form

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AMRA

We are happy to announce our June 2nd dinner in Chino California.  It will be held at the Planes of Fame and is going to be a blast like the previous 3 dinners we’ve had.  Tickets go on sale today and can be purchased on the AMRA website by clicking on the 2018 4th Annual […]

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Pomona GPAA Gold Show this weekend!

We are packing to today and heading down to Pomona tomorrow for the GPAA Gold Show.  Stop by AMRA’s booth and find out what is going on with California’s small mining fight!   Pomona GPAA Gold Show

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AMRA is now producing an educational series of videos

AMRA is now releasing its educational videos. Our goal is to teach everyone what their rights are as they pertain to public lands and also mining claims.   In this video we address if the USFS (Forest Service) can cut the trees down on your mining claim and also what to do if someone claim […]

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Our new educational series of videos. Can the USFS cut trees on your claim and what to do about claim jumpers

We apologize for the release and subsequent problems with our new educational series video. Here it is…..   This one addresses questions like “can the USFS cut trees down on my claim. And also addresses claim jumping and what to do.  

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