Helpful Links for Recreational Miners

These are links to other sites that may help you in your search for valuable minerals.

Magazines

Gold Prospector Magazine - Official magazine of the Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA).
ICMJ's Prospecting and Mining Journal - Formerly known as the California Mining Journal.

Clubs & Organizations

Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA) - The Gold Prospectors Association (GPAA) was founded in 1968 to preserve and promote the great heritage of the North American Prospector. The GPAA was also dedicated to providing a platform for the exchange of information, presenting an organized voice for recreational and professional prospectors and helping it's members find more gold.
The New 49'ers - The purpose of The New 49'ers is to assist our members to find increased enjoyment and more profitable yields while helping to create more and more successful gold prospectors in our field. Each year we are proving that a large number of successful gold prospectors, associated together in a responsible way, have a chance to provide greater gold prospecting opportunities for all of us to enjoy.
N.W. Montana Gold Prospectors - We are a non-profit organization for the person interested in the minerals of the earth - be it gold or garnets. Join us and learn to pan or run a dredge.
RoadRunner Prospectors' Club - RRPC was founded in 1982 as a non-profit, volunteer-staffed, family orientated club dedicated to gold mining in the state of Arizona. Members enjoy access to hundreds of acres of gold producing claims located throughout the state and are free to keep all the gold they find.
Prospector's Club of Southern California - The Prospector's Club of Southern Calif. holds title to several gold claims in California. The Club has also made agreements with other organizations to to allow their members and ours, to make mutual use of each other's gold claims. With these arrangements, our members have access to quite a large number of sites where they can get their share of the gold in our state.
United Prospectors - A family-oriented small miner's corporation dedicated to the enjoyable, relaxing, and potentially profitable activities of rock hounding, metal detecting, gold prospecting and mineral hunting.

Forums

49er Mike's - Possibly the most popular mining forum on the Internet (formerly Tom Ashworth's)
Alaska Gold Forum - Excellent general prospecting and mining forum.
Nuggethunting.com - Specialties include Minelab metal detectors and meteorite hunting.
TreasureNet Prospecting Forum - If you're a hard core dredger, or a weekend panner, this is YOUR forum ! Talk about your favorite rivers/lakes, equipment, techniques, and anything else related to dredging for gold.