Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt plans to halt the “secret science” underpinning his agency’s regulations, opening a conversation about how studies can be weaponized in favor of onerous regulations without additional scrutiny and the transparency involved in determining how data and methodology are pursued or analyzed by outside researchers. For the complete […]
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 […]
Big mining companies influence politics? You bet. Do they care if they crush a small miner? Hell no. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article139972108.html For the complete article, click HERE
Two weeks dredging in Alaska……… 12 of us have pulled the trigger and have booked a two week dredge trip at Gold Fever Prospecting in Alaska. We will be going on the 8th of June and be there for two weeks. They offer all inclusive trips, food, lodging and they supply the dredges, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]