This has some far reaching conclusions which should also impact small mining. A 10 year study on the impacts of logging has concluded that it does not harm fish of fish habitat. For the complete article, click OSU study on trout
Our first outing of the year is just a week away.! Remember, these outings are free, are open to the public and is for Saturday April 7th and Sunday April 8th. New to prospecting or curious? Let us know and we will teach you how to pan for gold. You keep whatever gold you find on our mining […]
9 months ago AMRA was contacted by 2 miners who were on their claim in Northern California. One man was running a sluice upstream and one man was running a high banker downstream. A DFW (Fish and Wildlife) Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) approached them, took the foot valve from their water pump and threatened to […]
Last fall we took a reporter from KQED in the Bay area of California out to hunt for some gold. Here is his article: Right after we meet, Shannon Poe asks me if I’m a) allergic to poison oak and b) freaked out by ghosts. Because where we’re going, he says, there’s a lot of […]
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 […]
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 […]
I grew up in Oregon and loved that state. Over the past few decades, the state has changed politically and quite dramatically. They have effectively, like California, banned or are attempting to ban most methods of small mining in the state. Now they are requiring permits for pollution when dredges actually remove pollutants from […]
This video is of an epic fight some ranchers on the Oregon/Idaho border have had with the BLM over water rights. This also brings up some very, very valuable points on small mining and water rights. We strongly urge you to watch this, see how this family won this case over the government as this […]
While the entire country was embroiled in talk over President Trump’s tax cuts….this happened behind the scenes. We have mentioned we had broken through Trump’s firewall and even have a personal letter from Mr. Trump over the endless letters (every Monday morning sent certified) we sent to 1600 Pennsylvania Blvd outlining the struggle us […]
