LDMA: A scroll down Memory Lane

This year, the Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association celebrated its 35th anniversary. Here is a slide show of images of the Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association’s humble beginnings.

Cooler climes can’t quell the fever

As the weather begins to cool off, gold fever continues to rise. Many GPAA members begin to migrate south towards warmer pastures and desert prospecting seems to be a bearable activity once again. Others begin to plan time off of work to go on a family prospecting adventure. Members from across the country will cross paths this winter and new friends will be made. Claims have been added all over the country this year and many of them are accessible year round! Don’t let the end of summer get you down! Grab your Mining Guide and Pick & Shovel Gazette and find some yellow flakes this fall! 

Fares to Alaska on sale for GPAA and LDMA members! 

If you’ve been dreaming of the gold laden beach in Nome, Alaska, now is your prime time to register for the Gold Prospectors Association of America 2012 Alaska Gold Expedition.

No more regrets for not booking earlier and no more waiting until next year; this is your year! From Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, 2011, GPAA has discounted fares on flights to Nome for the 2012 Alaska Gold Expedition. For the first time ever, these discounted rates are being offered exclusively to our GPAA and LDMA members!

“We are very excited to be able to offer this type of exclusive pricing to our members and really hope that they will see the value in this and strike while the iron is hot. This special offer is really a wonderful surprise in today’s spike in airfare costs” said GPAA Event Manager Amber White.

Get Gold Prospectors FREE with a GPAA membership!

The November/December edition of Gold Prospectors, GPAA’s national magazine, features LDMA and GPAA Outings as its theme. Look for more of the usual riveting and adventure-packed stories of gold prospecting and gem & treasure hunting that you've come to expect in our glossy, full-color magazine.

Gold Prospectors Magazine goes on sale at newsstands Nov. 1 and is FREE for all GPAA and LDMA members. If you are not yet a GPAA member, Gold Prospectors Magazine alone, is a great reason to join Gold Prospectors Association of America.

If you are currently paying the newsstand price of $29.70 per year, plus
sales tax, you can receive all six issues of Gold Prospectors Magazine,
and the Pick & Shovel Gazette mailed to your door plus a one-year GPAA membership including the *Buzzard Special (shown below) for just $37.80 more per year. And, you never miss an issue! Now that's a deal! You get everything for just $67.50.

New apparel available NOW!

It’s been a long time coming, but the shipments started arriving right before the GPAA Gold & Treasure Show truck took off for the final two shows of 2011.

GPAA apparel has added new beautiful polos, denims, twills, T-shirts and camos that come in pink for the ladies too.

LDMA apparel has added new alluring polos, denims, twills to go with the standard existing T-shirts.

Don’t miss out on the NEW Mining Guide!

The next generation of the GPAA Mining Guide will soon be published.

• New claims

• New maps

• Improved directions/GPS coordinates

• And lots more!

We need your help! The next generation of the GPAA Claims Club Membership Mining Guide will soon be published and heading for the mailboxes of all our current multi-year GPAA members, Gold Life GPAA members and, of course, our current LDMA members. Now is the time to make sure your membership is up to date and current, as well as a valid mailing address. Snowbirds and members that have mail forwarding services. Remember that the post office DOES NOT forward third class mail.

2011 Gold Show Season has come to an end

The GPAA Gold & Treasure Show Circuit took its final bow for the 2011 season in Onalaska, WI. After nine shows this year, the gold show vendors and staff have “packed in their jobs” and are now working on finalizing details for the 2012 season. Here is a brief recap of the 2011 season:

Plan ahead to attend a Gold & Treasure Show nearest you

GPAA has expanded the Gold & Treasure Show Circuit to an unparalleled 20 shows and pre-registration is now open for the first 12 shows in the spring circuit! By registering online, you will receive FREE admission for both event days at the gold show of your choice, separate VIP check in upon arrival, exclusive coupons and offers from GPAA & Exhibiting Vendors, and details surrounding the show you chose. From January to May, the GPAA will be visiting 12 locations to host our high-demand Gold & Treasure Shows. New locations to our schedule include Red Bluff, CA, Albuquerque, NM, Spokane, WA, Boise, ID, Salt Lake City, UT, and Reno/Sparks, NV! With all of these new locations, we certainly hope to you see you there!

2012 GPAA Calendar Photo Contest winners announced

The long wait for the 2012 GPAA Calendar photo contest results is now over. It was a hard job to pick the winning pictures because there were so many that we liked. The whole GPAA staff was involved in the process of choosing the winning photos. I want to thank everyone who participated. Thanks to your photographs, I believe this is our best calendar to date.

Some of the pictures that weren’t chosen were put on the Member’s Page in the Nov/Dec issue of Gold Prospectors Magazine. So, if you don’t see your picture in the new calendar, check out that issue. Your photo may be in it.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy the new calendar as much as we enjoyed making it.

Gold prospectors head for Angeles National Forest hills

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (KABC) — Gold prices are sky high. An ounce of gold is now selling for nearly $1,700 per ounce. That's led to a surge of interest in gold prospecting in the east fork of the San Gabriel River in the Angeles National Forest. In what has become a modern-day Gold Rush, prospectors of all ages there are hoping all that glitters is in fact gold in its streams or embedded in the rocks. Like the 49ers of the first Gold Rush in California, these amateur miners dream of striking it rich. But for La Habra Heights resident Aida Camalich Lough and her two daughters, a nugget of hope is only part of the experience.

Read more and watch video on KABC-TV Los Angeles website

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