America's Largest Gold Prospecting Family

  • Learn how to recover your own gold
  • Gain access to rich gold claims in many states
  • All the gear you’ll need - gold pan, mining guide & more
  • Membership for an entire year - valid for your whole family
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Questions? 1-800-551-9707
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Free Pick & Shovel Gazette
RECEIVE OUR MEMBERS ONLY NEWSPAPER FOR FREE

Receive a FREE copy of our Pick ‘n Shovel Gazette
shipped right to your house. Packed full of mining
news, discoveries, local chapter events, new mining
claims and more.
A gift from us to you, in the interest of spreading a little gold fever.

HERE'S WHAT YOU GET
Buzzard Kit
  • 1-year Membership for your whole family
  • 14” Gravity trap gold pan
  • Mining Guide - Packed with hundreds of gold claims nationwide
  • 2 How-to DVD’s showing you how and where to start recovering gold
  • 1-year GPAA Magazine subscription
  • Gold snuffer bottle
  • GPAA Hat, bumper sticker & patches
Gold Claims Nationwide
HOW THE GPAA WORKS
You gain the right to access and extract mineral wealth from our hundreds of gold and gem claims, as well as treasure hunting locations nationwide.
These are all mapped out in our Mining Guide, perfect for a wide range of activities:

Nationwide Gold Outings
America’s biggest, down-to-earth family. Throughout the year, our members unite to find gold at rich claims together. These outings are an amazing way to learn and connect with fellow prospectors, and share the evenly split gold that you all find together.

• Gold Panning
• Metal Detecting
• Sluicing
• Highbanking

• Dredging
• Gem Hunting
• Treasure Hunting
• and More!

GET STARTED

30 years strong. We at the GPAA promote good ol’ American values, honest hard work, and the gold-filled benefits of it - and it all starts with you. Together with our members, we’ve collectively extracted millions of dollars worth of gold from the ground. With a little elbow grease, there’s no telling how much gold you can find!

Learn from the best
Your GPAA membership will teach you everything you need to know about finding gold. With instructional video from the most seasoned prospectors, local chapter members to help you out, nationwide trade shows and more, you'll be spotting yellow in no time!

Learn How to Pan for Gold

Video: Basic Panning Techniques

One Big Family, Lots of Gold!
JOIN THOUSANDS WHO ARE FINDING GOLD
Gold Prospectors Association of America

Here's what you get:

  • Access to rich gold claims near you
  • All the gear you need to get started - Gold pan, mining Guide, instructional DVDs & more
  • Become part of a down-to-earth, gold finding family
  • Membership for an entire year - for your significant other and all of your children under the age of 18
Join Now!
Questions? 1-800-551-9707
Gold nugget found by one of our members
Gold nuggets in a pan