Year: 2022

Diesel costs up 75%

We use diesel for our dozer and other heavy equipment to mine. Truckers shipping most all goods, farmers for their tractors. This is not by coincidence, it is not caused by Russia and we honestly don’t care what the Facebook fact-checkers say. For the complete article, click HERE

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Let the adventure begin!

This week is going to be fun as hell. One of the grand prizes we give away at our annual AMRA dinner each December is a 3 day mining trip with AMRA President Shannon Poe. Bruce and Leslie start their experience tomorrow morning. Up first….Screamer Mine! Want a trip like this? Come to our dinner […]

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Oceano Dunes and fraudulent science

Most of you know that we’ve been watching and have been involved in fighting this Oceano Dunes fight for some time. Looks like they used flawed science in this, just like dredging. For the complete article, click HERE

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Coming for your rights…..

We’ve been writing and educating folks for nearly a decade now on the difference between a “right” and a “privilege”. Rights are granted, like the right of access to a valid mining claim, owning a gun for your protection or the right to speak your mind without fear. For most of my adult life, I’ve […]

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About the USFS citing AMRA President Shannon Poe this past weekend:

We wanted to let everyone know that the arrest/citation of AMRA President Shannon Poe for “defrauding an inn-keeper” (actually a sub-contracted garbage collection company hired by the USFS) is at the top of our priority list. The absurdity of this criminal citation, the volume of laws, regulations and rights violated by the USFS will not […]

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Video explanation of the citation USFS gave to Shannon Poe

This video was shot as the LEO was leaving the campground in La Panza. Click on the link directly below for the video: USFS LEO cites Shannon Poe        

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Accountability and the USFS

After our post yesterday about the USFS absurdly citing AMRA President Shannon Poe for “defrauding an inn keeper”, we wanted to bring up the solution to rogue agents and rogue behavior by agencies such as the USFS and BLM.   A few years ago, AMRA’s COO (Chief Operating Officer) Connie had an epiphany while she […]

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AMRA President Shannon Poe cited at an AMRA outing by USFS

We are going to be writing tomorrow, in detail about an altercation we had during our outing on the “real property mining claim” we were at for our event near Atascadero CA over this past weekend. We ask you to share this topic each time we post it so everyone can see just how the […]

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Buying a mining claim and the process of quitclaims

BUYING A MINING CLAIM AND THE PROCESS OF QUITCLAIMS: We have fielded several calls over the years and have seen an increase lately about “quitclaims” for mining claims, BTW, it is not called a “quick claim”. We want to tell you a little story, then we’ll describe in detail what the process is. One of […]

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Contender outing May 14th/15th near San Luis Obispo

We are only a week away from our outing down in La Panza, near Paso Robles at The Contender claim. Catered dinner for those who sign up, metal detecting hunt, great gold and thousands of dollars in prizes for our raffle. This event is open to the public, as our claim is as well and […]

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