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Forest fires and the USFS

Well, can’t say we disagree with this. Just in the past 4 1/2 years we have had to endure two massive fires in our own backyard. One was the 5th largest in the history of California. The latest one came within a mile and a quarter of our home base. Mismanagement of our forests has […]

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Feldman brothers get a new TV show!

Our friends, the Feldman brothers have a new TV series pilot which is going to air on November 30th. Most will remember the brothers as mining on the show “Ice Cold Gold”. This is pretty exciting as the new show is filmed in the desert Southwest (they are from Arizona) and will be in areas […]

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Trump rolls back restrictions on accessing public lands

As most of you can imagine, we get a ton of emails and calls on new bills, laws and movements by enviro groups to further take away the public lands from you…..who owns the lands. Right now there are attacks in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California to further restrict either access to these lands, or […]

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Outstanding article on Hydrothermal gold deposits

Want to understand how gold gets deposited and why people lode mine?  Read this………… https://www.geologyin.com/2014/11/veins-and-hydrothermal-deposits.html?utm_content=bufferad04b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#K2RQDkRBbff1XPtH.99 Or click Veins and hydrothermal deposits of gold

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USFS Probert makes another move to eliminate public land users from using their lands

We’ve posted many time that mining claim owners have fundamental rights, rights of access, rights to the minerals in the ground and that others like snowmobile users, hikers, campers and hunters have “privileges” to use our public lands. Well, here is a prime example of yet another USFS move to eliminate one user group from […]

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Explaining the plight of a small miner in Oregon

A good read on just how hard it is to be a small miner in Oregon: Oregon gold miner faces unbelievable challenges

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Forest Service defines an oxymoron

Only the USFS could come up with this oxymoron. Definition of oxymoron plural oxymora play \ˌäk-si-ˈmȯr-ə, -sē-\ :a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness); broadly Gate the roads to keep the public off of their own lands, then encourage the public to use the roads they can’t access. Public service advertising […]

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Thursday night update on the Barstow/BLM road closures

Update on the Barstow/BLM road closures.   We spent much of today on the phone with attorney’s, County Supervisors, other elected folks, the media and our own staff. Not to mention dealing with an injured pup, our boy Charlie. He’s going to be OK, but man do I hate wasps.   We are leaving for […]

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Barstow/BLM road closure update

Update on the Barstow/BLM road closure issue. We have not had our final conference with the BLM. We pushed the call to tomorrow so we can review some final legal documents. We have all of the management plans, the lawsuit filed by, you guessed it…Center for Biological Diversity which started this whole road and land […]

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AMRA met with Congressional, Senatorial and Assembly aides on your behalf today

The picture here was taken today. This is in front of the Bear River sign at the entrance to the public area near Auburn CA. We drove there today and AMRA pressed to be included (on your behalf) in a meeting with Senatorial, Congressional, and Assembly staff members to hear how their policies and laws […]

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