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The March/April 2013 edition of Gold Prospectors, GPAA’s national magazine, features Metal Detecting as its theme. Look for more of the usual riveting and adventure-packed stories of gold prospecting, lost treasures and gem & treasure hunting that you’ve come to expect in our glossy, full-color magazine. The cover story, “Pleasures of Patch Hunting,” by Mike Greyshock features Mike and his brother, Mark, and their successful nugget-hunting adventures.

 

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The November/December 2012 edition of Gold Prospectors, GPAA’s national magazine, features Alaska, lost treasure and prospecting articles from across the country. Look for more of the usual riveting and adventure-packed stories of gold prospecting, lost treasures and gem & treasure hunting that you’ve come to expect in our glossy, full-color magazine.

The November/December 2012 edition of Gold Prospectors is now on sale at newsstands 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 (shown here) for just $54.80 more per year. And, you never miss an issue! Now, that's a deal! You get everything for just $84.50.

 

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The September/October 2012 edition of Gold Prospectors, GPAA’s national magazine, features gems and knapping as its theme. Look for more of the usual riveting and adventure-packed stories of gold prospecting, lost treasures and gem & treasure hunting that you’ve come to expect in our glossy, full-color magazine.

The September/October edition of Gold Prospectors is now on sale at newsstands 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 (shown here) for just $54.80 more per year. And, you never miss an issue! Now, that's a deal! You get everything for just $84.50.

 

Never miss an issue of Gold Prospectors Magazine! Join GPAA today!

The July/August edition of Gold Prospectors, GPAA’s national magazine, features lost treasures 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.

The July/August edition of Gold Prospectors is now on sale at newsstands 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.

 

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The May/June edition of Gold Prospectors, GPAA’s national magazine, features Legends of Crisson Mine and mine owner Tammy Ray’s nugget-laden Gold Digger hot rod as its cover story. 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 is now on sale at newsstands 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.

Get Gold Prospectors FREE with a GPAA membership!

The March/April edition of Gold Prospectors, GPAA’s national magazine, features metal detecting and treasure hunting 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 is now on sale at newsstands 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.

The Women of Nome’s Gold Rush: 1897-1906

By Priscilla Rhoades

At the height of the Klondike Gold Rush at the turn of the century, Nome was no place for a respectable woman. The congested Alaskan town was dirty, dangerous, and inhabited by hard-living men. Klondike “Klondy” Nelson saw Nome for the first time in 1902 as a curious five-year-old arriving with her mother, Alma. 
Alma Nelson had tired of waiting for her gold-fevered husband to come home to South Dakota and had determined that mother and daughter would join him in Nome. In her memoir, Daughter of the Gold Rush, Klondy described what they saw that October day after leaving their ship:
Nome in 1902 was a jumble of flimsy, false-fronted buildings, half of them saloons. There didn’t seem to be room on the boardwalk for another person. The men seemed to be of every nationality — Scandinavians, Russians, Greeks, Poles, Germans, French-Canadians, even Chinese.

Read more in the January/February Issue of Gold Prospectors Magazine.

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Panning for gold is easy! By Tom Massie GPAA CEO / Gold Fever host

I have seen it for myself — someone who has never held a gold pan in their hands entering into the panning contest at a GPAA gold show. They watch a few people ahead of them to see how it’s done and when it’s their turn, they swish the pan around, drop the gold to the bottom, use the riffle traps in the pan and pick out the nuggets with a respectable time and even — once in awhile, when the competition is not to stiff — win! For the most part, the vessels for use in gold panning and the methods of panning are unchanged over the years. The bevel-sided dish pan is the traditional utensil for panning for gold, but anything that will hold water and the dirt ’n gravel will do — such as a frying pan or a pie plate. But, if you expect to have...

Editor’s Note: What’s up on Wall Street?

By Tom Massie
GPAA CEO / Gold Fever host

Excuse me while I go  on a rant here, but  this whole Occupy Wall Street thing seems to me to be a bit silly. Now, I know we live in the land of the free and you have a right to free speech, but it kinda seems  to me some of these protesters are protesting for the mere sake of pro-testing. For lack of a better term, I think they find it fun.

A few months ago, we began hearing of “the one percent,” who are responsible for the current economic mess. This one percent apparently makes all their money at the expense of the other 99 percent. Who is this one percent? Is it the late Steve Jobs, who created a lot of really cool equipment that made people’s lives easier?

Read more in the January/February Issue of Gold Prospectors Magazine.

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Ethel Bush Berry’s golden honeymoon

Years before gold was discovered on the beaches of Nome, Alaska, it had already been claimed in what was to become Canada’s Yukon Territory. In the fall of 1895, a California farm girl named Ethel Bush accepted a proposal of marriage from her childhood sweetheart, Clarence J. Berry. C.J. had just returned home to Selma, California from the Yukon Territory, where he had spent 18 months prospecting for gold. Like many other victims of the hard economic times of the 1890s, C.J. had been seduced by the dream of riches beckoning from the streams of the Yukon. In 1894, when he had abandoned his failing fruit farm to follow his golden dream, the muscular, 27-year-old farm boy had asked the girl next door to wait for him. Ethel had promised that she would.