If you still have them, receipts for the bigger $ items might be worthwhile to have.  Proof you bought them up there, and not get hit with duty fees coming back into Canada.

Welcome to the madness, and find some gold down here.  Post up when and where, and members might be able to meet up for some prospecting, and be sure to check out the chapters in the areas you will be in via their contact people.

   Try Roaring Camp, that looks like fun. If you're into spending money, they supply a high banker and for $300 they dump a giant pile of paydirt right there. They have a cool custom gold pan too. You can sluice on your own for $0 + the admission. It's a day, or 3 days, or a week with a Saturday night steak dinner.

Todd, Rye Patch doesnt have any GPAA claims....but you dont need to be on one anyway. That place is so open, there are lots of places to go. There are private claims throughout the area, check on Mine Cache for a good research tool. Wadsworth is the only GPAA claims I think in that area of Nevada. I meet people out near Rye Patch coming from California, because it is much easier to hunt, with less BS to worry about.

Adam is right on with the Roaring Camp. I will be going there late spring or early summer for a whole week. I am still trying to rustle up someone to go too. I won a free week there for 2 people.

If you hunt near Rye Patch, there is a lot and I mean alot of open land to hunt on north of Rye Patch which has very few claims.

Most all of northern Washoe is open north of Wadsworth except the reservation. lots of neat stuff out there and there is  a lot of gold but mostly fine and micro but there has got to be nuggets somewhere. We tramp that part of the country about half the year till the snakes come out or it gets to hot. Don't let anyone try to sell you a claim in the US if your not a citizen, against the law and there are some scam artist that don't tell you that. Welcome and have fun, its beautiful country in the high desert. Tom

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