Gold Prospectors Association of Tucson

Gold Prospectors Association of Tucson Gold prospecting club, Meets once a month. This affiliation allows us, as a club, to utilize all of GPAA's Gold Claims. GPAT is a non-profit organization.

The Gold Prospectors Association of Tucson (GPAT) is the only prospecting club in Tucson that is affiliated with the Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA), a nationwide organization. We presently have TWELVE Claims within easy driving distance of Tucson and are continually adding more. We are a family oriented organization, many of our members bring their spouses & children to all our out

ings. ALL officers are volunteers and receive no remuneration. ALL operating funds are raised by the sale of prospecting related items, and by the raffling of GOLD & merchandise at our monthly meetings and at our group outings.

06/13/2024

Just thought I would e-mail all a reminder notice of the June 19th meeting on Wednesday night at 7:00 PM at the VFW #4903 at 5320 E. Bellevue St.

We have a new special item that we will started selling tickets at $1 at this month's meeting. It is a Dry Washer set without the blower motor. We will sell tickets for this raffle until September.

This meeting we will be celebrating our 28th Anniversary as a club. Happy birthday. We will be serving cake.

Dennis Stahl will be giving a short presentation on the good, bad, and ugly on his claim Dreamers Gilt.

Reminder the weather is getting hotter, so make sure that you start hydrating extra a few days prior to the any outing.

The outing this month be to one of the claims in the Santa Ritas on Saturday June 22nd. The meet time is 7 AM at the Greaterville Rd Turn off on the Sonoita (Hwy 83).

If you have any questions, please contact me by e-mail or phone.

Thanks,
David
GPAT President

01/15/2024

All,

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year.

We are coming into some changes with the GPAT as a club.

Please be patient with us as we should have most everything worked out by the March meeting.

To that end, I want to stress to all of you that, while we are working out the details on the new claims and how use them that you only go to GPAA sponsored claims at this time.

The remaining claims are private and we need to get the ground rules set before we open them up to potential members.

With that said, the only GPAA sponsored claims in the Santa Rita Mtns. (Greaterville area) are Friendship and Maybe, Maybe Not. The only claim available in the Arivaca area is Polaris.

All other claims previously mentioned are private and should be respected as such until we can complete ground rules for these claims.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thanks,
David
GPAT President

12/15/2023

Just a friendly reminder of our upcoming Membership meeting on December 20th Wednesday Night at 7:00 PM. Our meeting will be at the VFW Post 549 at 8424 E. Old Spanish Trail. The Post is located on the Southwest corner of Broadway and Old Spanish Trial, right next to the Big White Tent Christmas Tree lot.

This is a DIFFERENT location than our regular meeting. This is our Christmas Party!

We will continue selling the Christmas $1.00 Raffle Tickets for the Minelab Gold Monster Metal Detector. You don't have to be present to win. The tickets can be sold to anyone. You can get tickets to sell to your friends, family, or acquaintances. The second place prize is $100 Gift certificate to CAL Ranch, and third place is $50 Gift certificate to CAL Ranch. This raffle will happen at this meeting, so make sure that you buy tickets to win!!

We will be serving Lucky Wishbone Chicken and sides.

We will need volunteers to help with the clean up after the party, so if you can help, it will be much appreciated.

Reminder that you can only bring up to four people per membership.

We will also be accepting nominations for the open positions on the board. The positions are president, vice-president, Treasurer, Secretary, and both 3 Year Board members.

Thanks,
David Steimle
GPAT President

11/09/2023

Just a friendly reminder of our upcoming Membership meeting on November 15th Wednesday Night at 7:00 PM. Our meeting will be at the VFW Hall at 5320 E. Bellevue.

We raffled off Big Bucket of Concentrates at our Annual Picnic and Panning Contest, congratulations to Randy Gruss on having his name pulled.

Those of us that attended the Outing had a great time. We had over 40 people attend. Congratulations to our winners of the panning contests were Terry Becklund (Men's, 14.16 seconds), Terri Bibbens (Women's, 14.22) and Nicholas Martinez (Kid's, 29.00). We also had a never before occurrence of someone actually getting the Pan into the bin of Water, congratulations to Michael Gierling! I told you it could be done.

We will continue selling the Christmas $1.00 Raffle Tickets for the Minelab Gold Monster Metal Detector. You don't have to be present to win. The tickets can be sold to anyone. You can get tickets to sell to your friends, family, or acquaintances. The second place prize is $100 Gift certificate to CAL RANCH, and third place is $50 Gift certificate to CAL RANCH.

Our Christmas Party is also coming up in December, we have secured the VFW at Old Spanish Trail and Broadway again.

Our outing this month will be at the Polaris claim in the Arivaca area. Meet time will be at 8:00 AM at the Mile Post 7 turn off.

Please e-mail or call me if you have questions. If I have forgotten something, please let me know.
See you at the Meeting!!!!

Thanks,
David Steimle
GPAT President

11/07/2023

Website address is updated on here. GPAATUCSON.ORG

06/16/2023

Just thought I would e-mail all a reminder notice of the June 21st meeting on Wednesday night at 7:00 PM at the VFW #4903 at 5320 E. Bellevue St.

We have a new special item that we will start selling tickets at $1 at this month's meeting. It is a 2 gallon bucket of material from our Polaris claim. It will have a guaranteed 3 grams of gold plus many fines as well as some turquoise and other gems. It will be fun panning this stuff out! We will sell tickets for this raffle until September.

This meeting we will be celebrating our 27th Anniversary as a club. Happy birthday. We will be serving cake.

Also, we will be presenting a slide show of past events, so bring your photos on a USB stick and we will show them all, all the ones related to the outdoors, camping, and prospecting.

Reminder the weather is getting hotter, so make sure that you start hydrating extra a few days prior to the any outing.

The outing this month be to our at the Polaris Claim in Arivaca or R Double J claim in the Santa Ritas on Saturday June 24th. The meet time is 7 AM. Location will be by vote at the meeting. For Polaris, the meet point will be .3 miles west of MP7 on Arivaca Rd. or for R Double J, at the Greaterville Rd Turn off on the Sonoita (Hwy 83).

If you have any questions, please contact me by e-mail or phone.

It is with a sad heart that I inform you all about Scot Homan's passing on June 5th. He is a past president, board member and a true friend. I am truly honored to have known him for the last 27 years.

Thanks,
David
GPAT President

04/19/2023

Just thought I would e-mail all a reminder notice of the April 19th meeting on Wednesday night at 7:00 PM at the VFW #4903 at 5320 E. Bellevue St.

Our Guest speaker will be our own Michael Wheeler on recent trip to GEM and mineral event at Truth or Consequences New Mexico.

We will continue selling tickets for the Vacuum at $1 per ticket. The Vacuum will be raffled off at our Annual Common Dig Outing on Saturday April 22nd.

Reminder the weather is starting to warm up, so make sure that you start hydrating extra a few days prior to the outing.

The outing this month is our Annual Common Dig (26th Annual) on Saturday April 22nd. Registration for the event will be at the camp right up to the 8:00 AM hour when we will travel to the Polaris claim for the common dig. We will have Wet sluices and dry washers set-up for the dig.

We will also need a few wet wash sluices and plenty of water, so if you can bring water for the wet systems, that will be great. In the past, we have consumed several hundred gallons for the Common Dig, so bring what you can.

Camping is available. There will be a few rules for camping to keep everyone safe. All dogs must be kept on leashes/chains at all times within the campsite for the period of the campout (Thursday morning through Sunday PM), no exceptions. Also, be mindful of others and pick up after your dogs, if they do their business within the campsite area. Generators can be used from 6 AM to 10 PM.

There will be the normal Friendship Stew on Friday night.

We also be having a NIGHT COIN SHOOT on Friday night, if we have enough participatants. Rules, there will be a $1 entry fee for all those in the coin shoot. If you find this Money nugget, you are done for the event. There will be a nugget with a $ sign on it that will represent the cash prize. This should be a great enticement to metal detect. The same will also happen for the Saturday afternoon Coin Shoot as well.

The Hot Dogs will be selling hot dogs/chips ($2) at lunch. You can also bring your own lunch. Make sure that you bring plenty of water, sun screen, etc.

If you have any questions, please e-mail.

The weather should be pretty good and we will have a great time, so come out and join us.

Saturday's Events/Agenda:

Registration up to 8:00 AM
Safety Rules and Information 8:00-8:10 AM
Common Dig 8:15 to 11:00
Clean up/fill in the holes will start around 10:45 AM
Come back to Camp for Lunch 11:30 to 12:30PM
(It won't be served any sooner so make sure that you stay at the dig and help with the clean up.)
Coin Shoot
Pan Toss
Blue/Red Ticket Raffle
1/4 Oz Nugget Raffle
Bags of Concentrates given out

Directions to the Common Dig:

South on I-19 to the Amado Exit (48), turn right, then right again onto the Frontage Rd. Turn Left onto Arivaca Rd. (just past the Cow Palace and the General Store). Travel west on Arivaca Rd. to .3 mile past the Mile Post 7 marker. Turn right onto the dirt road (heading North), follow the road for about 1 mile to the intersection with the Las Guijas Cerro Colorado Rd and make a left (heading west), camp is about 2.5 miles from the turn. There will be GPAA/GPAT signs out just as you get onto the dirt road and at key locations. the first 1.5 off of Mile Post 7 is a little rough, so take your time coming in and plan for a little longer travel time.

If you have any questions, please contact me by e-mail or phone.

Thanks,
David
GPAT President

12/22/2022

Sorry for the late post.

Just a friendly reminder of our upcoming Membership meeting on December 21st Wednesday Night at 7:00 PM. Our meeting will be at the VFW Post 549 at 8424 E. Old Spanish Trail. The Post is located on the Sothwest corner of Broadway and Old Spanish Trial, right next to the Big White Tent Christmas Tree lot.

This is a DIFFERENT location than our regular meeting. This is our Christmas Party!

We will continue selling the Christmas $2.00 Raffle Tickets for the Minelab Gold Monster Metal Detector. You don't have to be present to win. The tickets can be sold to anyone. You can get tickets to sell to your friends, family, or acquaintances. The second place prize is $100 Gift certificate to Sportsman’s Warehouse, and third place is $50 Gift certificate to Sportsman’s Warehouse. This raffle will happen at this meeting, so make sure that you buy tickets to win!!

We will be serving Lucky Wishbone Chicken and sides.

We will need volunteers to help with the clean up after the party, so if you can help, it will be much appreciated.

Reminder that you can only bring up to four people per membership.

We will also be accepting nominations for the open positions on the board. The positions are president, vice-president, Treasurer, Secretary, and both 3 Year Board members.

Starting at the January meeting, we will start the sale of the tickets for new Vaccuum (valued at $420). The tickets will be just $1 and the vacuum will be raffled off at the Common Dig in April.

Thanks,
David Steimle
GPAT President

10/20/2022

Just a friendly reminder of our upcoming Membership meeting on October 19th Wednesday Night at 7:00 PM. Our meeting will be at the VFW Hall at 5320 E. Bellevue.



This is the start of the cooler weather for prospecting, yeah!



We will continue selling the Christmas $2.00 Raffle Tickets for the Minelab Gold Monster Metal Detector. You don't have to be present to win. The tickets can be sold to anyone. You can get tickets to sell to your friends, family, or acquaintances. The second place prize is $100 Gift certificate to Sportsman’s Warehouse, and third place is $50 Gift certificate to Sportsman’s Warehouse.



We will also be getting a head count at the meeting the Hamburger and Hot dog ($2 each). You can pay for them at the annual picnic on Saturday. Other than the meat portion, this picnic is a potluck style picnic, so bring a dish to feed 8-10 people. Here is the listing for this year, if your last name starts with A-H, Dessert; I-P, Side Dish; Q-Z, Salad. This is not a hard and fast rule but keeps us from having too many desserts or other items.



All are welcome to this event. During the picnic, please help your children get their food, so that things don't get dropped, or have accidents. We will be doing the picnic/potluck the same as last year, we will be cooking all the steaks (steaks, burgers, hot dogs will be in warmers) and will serve them and then you will be able to get the other food after getting your desired meat selection.



This months' outing is our 26th Annual Picnic and Panning Contest to be held on Saturday October 22nd at the Friendship claim on the shady side.



We will be having a Friday Night Coin Shoot as well.



Just so everyone has an idea of what and when the Saturday events will occur, here is this year's agenda (rough times):



Registration at Camp for the panning contest, pan toss, and coin shoot will be begin from around 7:30 to 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Start of the Qualifying Rounds for the Men's and Women's, and Children's panning contests

10:00 AM Start of the Finals Rounds of the Panning Contest

10:30 AM Getting the grills going for the Hamburgers and Hot dogs

11:00 Completion of the Panning Contests

11:00 Pan Toss

11:30 Start the meat..

12:00 Approximate start of picnic.

1:15 or so Start Coin Shoot



2:30 Give out prizes for Panning Contest, Pan Toss, Coin Shoot, etc.



3:00 Convene official club outing.



Many of us will be camping out down on the shady of the Friendship claim starting Thursday Morning or earlier. Anyone wanting to join us is more than welcome.

For those coming out early, there will a camp stew for Friday nights' dinner, if you wish to participate. Always a great meal and a good time.



Please e-mail or call me if you have questions. If I have forgotten something, please let me know.

See you at the Meeting and at Camp!!!!



Thanks,

David Steimle

GPAT President

520-490-5325



Directions to the Camp Area:

Head East of I-10 to the Sonoita Hwy (Hwy 83) going south on Hwy 83 for approximately 23 miles to the Gardner Canyon Turn off. Turn right (heading east) onto Gardner Canyon Rd travel for 3/4 mile to Forest Rd 163 turn right (heading north) for 2.1 miles to turn right (again heading north) onto Forest Rd 4060. Continue on Forest Rd 4060 for about 1 mile, you will be in camp at that point, just find a spot to park.

There will be signs posted once you make to the turn onto Forest RD 163 on back to camp.

07/10/2022

Next meeting is July 20th @ 7pm.

07/10/2021

Correction, nextboard meeting is Aug 5th.

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