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New Items 123377 50
Started by perlabrill@gmail.com
Feel free to add any of your essential tool(s) list that you think we should carry in the store. We are looking to beef up our inventory and get everyone more of the tools and products they need to bring home the gold!
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by donald glaszczak  02 Dec 2024 10:15 PM |
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LDMA MEMBER SELLING MEMBERSHIP - GREAT DEAL 25092 10
Started by ncdottie@gmail.com
Hello to all you would be LDMA Members. I have owned my membership for many years and I have a totally transferable membership that I would like to sell at this point in my old age. I have contacted GPAA as to how to go about this. First I start by posting the offer. You are lucky! My old membership contract says that I can sell and transfer my membership for $50. See, I told you it was an old one. Current transfer pricing is $150 or more depending on th...
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by RICK KETCHUM 02 Dec 2025 06:08 PM |
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Started by jjmillertech010@gmail.com
When gaining access to the Crystal and Summit claims in California, San Bernardino, I wanted to know if the Summit post office road is closed off. In the directions when using the 'Getting There' tab somebody posted to not use the 138hwy because it is closed However, this was posted in 2017. I was wondering if there are updates or if anyone knows if this is open to access the claim.
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Started by jjmillertech010@gmail.com
When gaining access to the Crystal and Summit claims in California, San Bernardino, I wanted to know if the Summit post office road is closed off. In the directions when using the 'Getting There' tab somebody posted to not use the 138hwy because it is closed However, this was posted in 2017. I was wondering if there are updates or if anyone knows if this is open to access the claim.
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Using GPS to find claim locations 29239 4
Started by Theodore Greenaway
Does anyone know why these coordinates don't work in Earth or maps What am I doing wrong 33°55'55.15'N -112°34'58.61'W
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by Jesus Lugo 07 Oct 2025 10:47 PM |
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6 Replies and 47201 Views
Floating very fine gold Recovery 47201 6
Started by frankram72@yahoo.com
It's very hard to recover fine gold or flour gold maybe I can help with issue. Some times gold floats due to clays oils from vegetation. don't worry buy an inflatable kids pool and fill your bucket full of water and let the clays and dirty water wash your gold out of the bucket into the pool by swirling the matirieal around with your hand and tilt the bucket so that the gold washes out. then use my method in this link with a pump to recover it http://www.goldprospectors.org/Community/Forum...
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by Kieth Newman 15 Aug 2025 01:31 PM |
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Paydirt ? 38806 5
Started by a.minor@comcast.net
Can anyone recommend a company where you get something smaller than dust for gold Of the companies, Alaska included nothing but gold so fine, impossible to capture, just either washes out or disappears. Help.
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by Jeff Wade 17 Jun 2025 03:53 PM |
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10 Replies and 36659 Views
Let other members know when and where you're going prospecting. 36659 10
Started by pyrography10178@yahoo.com
Today I went out to the Maricopa group claims detecting. I ended up having a dead battery when I was getting ready to go. I was on the AzAu2 claim and barely any cell phone reception. I was able to call Bill Southern and he made sure that the right people knew my predicament. I started getting calls from other gpaa members asking where I was. I finally was able to get out of the claims with the help of Randy Brite. He knew exactly where I was and rescued me. I'm glad my wife and I joined such an...
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by ROBERT MARTINEZ 07 Apr 2025 11:51 AM |
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Started by pyrography10178@yahoo.com
I recently purchased a Whites GMT. It came with the 6'x9' Double D coil and a 8'x14' Sierra Gold Max coil. I took it out to the gpaa claims in the Morristown area. Towards the end of my testing and it was getting hot. I put the big coil on. I got up on this hill overlooking a wash and started detecting. I got this positive zip zip sound. I scraped the loose gravel with my boot and still got a good signal. I scraped down another 2-2 1/2' and found a .04 gram flake of lead. I wish now I had starte...
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by ROBERT MARTINEZ 22 Feb 2025 09:42 PM |
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Started by pyrography10178@yahoo.com
I have black tape helping keep out dirt between my coil cover and search coil on my Gold Bug Pro. I kept losing my threshold sound while my 1/4' jack was plugged in so I used a different set of headphones in the 1/8' jack and the same thing would happen. I thought it was because my cell phone was too close to the detector. I noticed that at a higher threshold setting the sound would always stay constant. It was almost like the headphone jack had a short in it. I was prepared to tear down my dete...
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Careful what clothes you wear to the claims 29704 6
Started by pyrography10178@yahoo.com
I recently saw a young lady out at the claims wearing a very nice shirt and hat. It had bright pink and white colors scattered on the shoulders and the hat had the same style. She kept brushing aside a very curious bee that was drawn to the colors. So if you're allergic to bee stings, try not to wear bee attracting color patterns because bees are very hungry in the desert and cell phone coverage isn't very good in the claims of you need help. Hope this helps. Enjoy prospecting.
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by Ernie Espinoza 16 Feb 2025 11:04 PM |
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6 Replies and 38818 Views
Arizona desert prospecting 38818 6
Started by Stancalavan1964@gmail.com
Anyone have any tips or tricks to find a little gold in the desert. I have been working the claims in the little San Diego area and haven’t found a thing. Was hoping to purchase a dry washer at some point but until I can find a little color I think I will hold off on that. Been working the smaller washes, sides of the washes, and in between the washes. I guess I don’t know we’re to look. Thanks for any tips Stan
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by Earl Colvin 30 Nov 2024 10:23 PM |
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3 Replies and 31990 Views
Classifier for 2 gal buckets 31990 3
Started by srandall@hughes.net
Yes, we all have 5 gal buckets and a lot of classifiers in different mesh sizes that perfectly fit on said buckets. However, I quickly learned to stop filling the buckets with 5 gal of material if I have to lug it from the bench to the sluice in the river about 40' away, many times that day. So, we decided to only fill it 1/2 way, makes sense. Well, I already have several 2 gallon buckets that would be a lot easier to pack in to some of the claims as well as once it's full, that's enough mate...
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by Dave Barenbrugge 28 Sep 2024 11:13 AM |
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17 Replies and 34347 Views
Prospecting in Maryland and Virginia 34347 17
Started by vickiecortez30@gmail.com
Hello everyone. I am new to the gold world. I got gold fever and bad, lol. I currently buy paydirt, but I want to get out in the field and get some gold myself. Im wondering if anyone knows any places in Maryland or Virginia I know the club shows 1 in MD, but does anyone know places besides that area Also, does anyone in Maryland want to go out and prospect together I would love to have a prospecting partner as I don't know anyone who does this. I would like to make new gold friends.
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by Vickie Moore 03 Sep 2024 07:57 PM |
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Bad Prospecting Ethics 37127 6
Started by thetaoscosmos@gmail.com
I was working the Placer Creek claim in New Mexico yesterday and came across this area where someone had dug along and beneath the Forest Service trail that accesses the claim from Hopewell Lake. This is along Forest Road 356A. Not only does this conflict with the standard guidelines of not digging into stream banks ~ one of the conditions the Forest Service is clear about when obtaining authorization to prospect on this claim ~ it's pretty stupid and disrespectful to cause damage to...
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by Olli Rita 16 Aug 2024 01:01 PM |
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CRAMPS - HOW TO ELIMINATE LEG CRAMPS 45438 8
Started by jo.don2@verizon.net
I am 53 years old and I dig harder than ever. After a day in the desert Drywashing a guy can get some really bad CRAMPS in the legs, arms, hands, back, and neck. Well I travel about 100 miles each way to my desert GPAA claims and when I drive home there is always some stop and go traffic and that can be a real pain in the butt having to be on the brake on again and off again getting through traffic. that's when the LEG CRAMPS and FOOT CRAMPS kick in BAD!!!! In many cases I have had to pull o...
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by Craig Crockett 13 Mar 2024 07:11 PM |
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8 Replies and 44955 Views
Gold cube water recirculating set up 44955 8
Started by Joshuar90@yahoo.com
Looking for some ideas/ other peoples set up for the cube just got one this summer
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by Sean Bush 24 Oct 2023 10:39 AM |
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Gold cube 36430 5
Started by j_owen_89@yahoo.com
I have been looking around for a while and I can't find a 110v option for a submersible for the gold cube. In theory I can just go to harbor freight or something and get an 1100 gph pump right Any tips would be appreciated. Jordan
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by Kevin Singel 25 Jul 2023 12:48 AM |
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20 Replies and 74025 Views
Finding gold in a stream with balloons 74025 20
Started by goldrushguys@gmail.com
Next time you're at Wally World add these items to your list.
Children's balloons, fishing line/string or twine & split shot lead sinkers. (Less than $5.00 total, and it will probably last you all season.)
Find a spot in the creek where you want setup equipment then go up stream a bit. (Anywhere from 50' to a 50 yards depending on the stream.) Take about 3ft. of twine string fishing line. Stay away fro ribbon, it floats. (Actually you want about 1 1/2' longer than the stream is dee...
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by Scott Randall 13 Jul 2023 09:16 PM |
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HUSKER 1 Prospecting in SD 15399 0
Started by livingthedream.js@gmail.com
I've had some success in Gold prospecting in the Eastern States but very new to the West. I'm getting a chance to prospect Husker 1 property in SD. and would like some guidance if possible on finding good Gold. Thank you Jeff
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