Record $11 Million Fine for California Mine

July 2013 by Associated Press

MMAC & PLP Update

March 2016

Just prior to our press deadline, we learned that a bill had been introduced in the Idaho House of Representatives to redefine suction gold dredging as a preferred use in public waterways in Idaho.

Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2017

• PLF sues over critical habitat
• Attorney General ends EPA slush fund

Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2018

• Forest Service to revisit 228 regulations
• WOTUS Executive Order suspended

Multiple Use Lands, Symbiotic Relations and Conflict Resolution

April 2016
The automatic discrimination and exclusion of man from nature, like his access and use of the land, presupposes man as a destructive force for change, absent a relative hard look at the natural forces of change. Setting aside lands for non-use does not encourage wise use symbiotic tenets, which man has traditionally formed in his coexistence with nature.

The Takeover of Public Lands by New NAC’s “National Asset Companies”

February 2024

Time to File Claims in Southern California

December 2015
Bottom line for you fellow miners: file your claims now in these areas or risk being forever locked out!

Legislative and Regulatory Update

September 2013
• Comment period extended for frog habitat
• Tennessee permits for gold prospecting
• California dredging injunction and restraining order hearing

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