Year: 2022

Life changing gold

Seriously….these rocks are life changing. They are not ours, they are our buddy GoldBay Dave’s. We are going to have them Xrayed for him to determine what the gold conglomeration looks like inside the rock so he can make them into show specimens. Some of these are crystalline gold and are EXTREMELY VALUABLE and rare. […]

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AMRA’s own Operations Manager Stacy Serrato graduates law school!

Word cannot express how incredibly proud we are of our very own Stacy Serrato, AMRA’s Operations Manager for the past 7 years. She has worked her butt off day and night going to law school while raising a family, putting up with all you rabid AMRA members and AMRA’s President, Shannon Poe. She graduated law […]

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Dredging hypocrisy

Here is how you spell hypocrisy: The recent flooding in Montana will be good for fish. The sediment which washed down for hundreds of miles, the turbidity which turned the river chocolate milk is GOOD for fish. But dredging, which makes a little plume for 100 feet destroys all fish habitat and must be eliminated. […]

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Outing this weekend at the Blue Jay claim is cancelled

We apologize but the outing scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled.  We believe many are unwilling to travel to the claim which is quite a drive for everyone due to high gas prices, graduations this weekend and also Father’s Day.  Our initial numbers did not justify the event. We apologize and will see you […]

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BLM to close more lands in Nor-Cal unless you act

BLM (Bureau of Land Management) in California is trying to close more and more public lands in Nor-Cal. We have written a letter opposing this on your behalf and encourage you to submit your comments to oppose this closure. Navigating their proposal and trying to understand the content of their plan is a bit challenging […]

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Update on Italian Bar disaster

Italian Bar disaster update: As you know now, we’ve been trying to get the Stanislaus NF to evict the illegal occupiers down on Italian Bar road for close to a year now. We’ve shot videos of the trash, sewage, dumped batteries, a vehicle which was in the river and provided evidence of how a mining […]

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What can the USFS do with mining claims?

We field tons of calls, emails and questions about the USFS and what they can, and cannot do as it relates to mining claims.   Here is the 2800 manual which is the bible for the USFS on precisely that.   We encourage you to read, open the PDF, print it and keep a copy […]

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Political activism on the judicial bench

A judge in California has now ruled that bees are fish and can be protected under the CA endangered species act. No, we are not kidding. And people wonder why we can’t dredge. Political ideology is truly destroying our state, and country. For the complete article, which we encourage you to read, click Judicial activism

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Top 25 US Gold Districts

Truly fascinating. There are likely billions of dollars still in the ground in the tertiary placers which were never worked. Click on the link and prepare to be astounded. For the link, click HERE

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Just a word from us….

We did an interesting analysis this morning and for the haters out there….ya, this isn’t necessarily about mining, tough. Our so-called “leaders” on both sides of the aisle voted to send $40,000,000,000 (40 billion) to Ukraine to protect their borders and provide weapons for them to defend themselves, with very little accountability on where the […]

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