As of today, AMRA is three years old. This is the story of AMRA (revisited): Spending decades wearing a suit and tie in the executive corporate world, I was becoming frustrated with the politics, sitting in court rooms, administering lawsuits, public speaking, doing investigations all across the west and interrogating horrible criminals. Some of these […]
AMRA outing reminder. February 13th and 14th at “The Office”! We will have signs (AMRA with arrows) pointing each turn from Coulterville (1 hour east of Modesto), at highway 49 all the way to the claims and outing location, simply follow the signs. We are holding the outing at our 4 connected claims […]
7 letters we are sending today on behalf of small miners and public land users. These letters are addressed to: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. This is not an endorsement of any one candidate, we are only showing the template of the letters being sent. […]
What AMRA is currently working on: We are writing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) on the USFS. We aren’t going to say which USFS office we are doing, nor are we going to outline what we are going to FOIA, we’d like that to be a surprise to them. But do know that we […]
As you are undoubtedly aware, many management and regulatory agencies are going full speed to stop suction dredging. The USFS is no different and has proposed a new scheme to restrict the number of dredges they will allow in Northern Idaho down to just a handful. They are claiming they need to do this […]
Yet another attempt by activists running our government to eliminate small mining: Do you know how big 3.8 million acres is? It is nearly the size of Massachusetts. It is 3 times the size of Delaware. This is the size of the area that is being proposed right now to be eliminated from mineral entry […]
AMRA claim update: Our outing is going great and today is the last day. The drawing for the large items is later today and those recipients of these prizes will be contacted either later today or tomorrow by Jon Siptrott, our outings coordinator. We had many people yesterday at the outing offer to pick […]