Arizona Gold Prospectors have helped build the premier recreational GOLD prospecting and mining club in Arizona, the Arizona Association of Gold Prospectors. We are an exciting and active prospecting club that is dedicated to bringing fun, entertainment and education back into prospecting for the novice, intermediate, and advanced prospector. We do this through placer GOLD prospecting and mining activities for both individual prospectors and their family members. Each AAGP Membership includes the member, spouse and any children under the age of 19 so the whole family can enjoy prospecting and finding GOLD together. The AAGP club chapters are dedicated to providing members with monthly meetings, prospecting and mining events like outings and common digs along with great local mineral claims to prospect on. If digging, panning, dredging, sluicing, highbanking, drywashing, or NUGGET shooting for GOLD is your desire then you need to check us out! All AAGP members are assured there will be plenty of fun and excitement to be had, prospecting to do, and GOLD to be found. AAGP members are able to prospect and mine on some of the best mineral claims located throughout the "golden triangle" of Arizona with the majority only one to two hours drive of Phoenix, Glendale, Scottsdale, Mesa and even Tucson! In additon to all of this we are also the only GOLD prospecting club in Arizona whose members have year-round access to a commercial placer GOLD mining operation for Common Digs! The commercial placer mining operation is located in the shadow of Red and White Picacho Volcanoes located between the junction of the Wickenburg and Hieroglyphic mountains near Wickenburg and Morristown. Other clubs may offer a weekly commercial operation access thousands of miles away, but it is usually only during the summer for 1-8 weeks and at an additional $1000 - $3,000 investment per week above and beyond their membership dues! Both are wonderful, fun opportunities, but you have to ask yourself, how much is the other club's membership really costing you for the activities you really want to be able to enjoy right here in Arizona? As an AAGP member you can enjoy great opportunities year-round on our claims and at a commercial placer Gold mining operation! If you are interested in GOLD sales or buying, we can give you the information on the where and what so you can buy the most for the least. We even offer tours and prospecting adventures and lessons for those who would like to experience the thrill of the (G)Old West. These exclusive opportunities are only available to prospectors through the AAGP! When you join a GOLD prospecting club, be sure it's the AAGP and be sure you make it a "Gold Getter" membership!
GOLD - WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SITE!
GOLD - a joy to see in your pan.
THERE'S GOLD IN THEM HILLS!
The location at the operation site is
beautiful and serene! The nights are
even more so if you like to stargaze!
LOADING UP THE GRAVELS
Commercial equipment allows us to process more gravels to find more GOLD! No picks or shovels needed! BIG SMILES ALL AROUND!
This prospecting club will show you that it's fun mining placer GOLD!
Moving all those gravels usually means one thing, LOTS OF GOLD FOR EVERYONE!
ADVANTAGES OF YOUR AAGP MEMBERSHIP
The AAGP "Basic", "Gold-Getter" and "Platinum" memberships give you access to the only club-based year-round commercial placer GOLD mining operation in the world!
With your AAGP Membership you will receive the following:
1. YOU will receive a personal minimum 15%-20% discount on all Special Events hosted by any local AAGP chapter in Arizona. All members also have access to many AAGP events including Common Operation GOLD Digs, Nugget Fest Commercial Common Digs, Splash Bash Common Digs, Nugget Shootouts, Pot Luck Dinners, Treasure Hunts, educational and entertaining GOLD Prospecting Seminars & Classes and Club Outings and local Chapter Meetings.
2. YOU will personally have access to some great mining claims in the state of Arizona to prospect and best of all, YOU GET TO KEEP ALL THE GOLD THAT YOU FIND! AAGP claims are located within an hour's drive from the Phoenix metropolitan area in the Wickenburg/Morristown area. This location is at the junction of the Wickenburg and Heiroglyphic mountains in the area with the richest GOLD production history in Maricopa County.
3. YOU will receive your personalized AAGP Annual Membership Name Badge and your personalized AAGP Claims Guide with easy to read maps and directions to all of the club claims. This will assist you to make sure you are on the right claims to help avoid any unpleasant confrontations in the field. No one likes a thief, or in this case a high grader, and removing minerals from active mineral claims wihout permission is an illegal criminal activity and violators are prosectued! Mineral Theft is a Felony in Arizona so join a legitimate and long standing GOLD prospecting club like the AAGP to be safe and legal!
4. YOU will receive, when scheduled, 1 TO 5 FREE DAYS at a Club GOLD Dig each year including the Christmas Dig.
5. YOU will receive a FREE GOLD sample with every AAGP membership. GOLD Getters and Platinum Members also receive a FREE GOLD Nugget! For over 31 years now the AAGP is the ONLY GOLD PROSPECTING CLUB to give it's new members FREE GOLD! What does that tell you about all the rest?
All AAGP memberships give you the above benefits and the GOLD Getter and Platinum memberships give you even more advantages!
6. In addition to all five of the above benefits of an AAGP membership, GOLD Getter and Platinum members now receive a huge $100 discount off their first professional GOLD prospecting lesson during their first year!
7. In addition to all six of the above benefits of an AAGP membership, GOLD Getter and Platinum members now have access to renting a complete set of drywashing prospecting equipment on a first come-first served basis. Equipment rental is limited to currently available equipment. Reservation required!
Get all of the above plus a whole lot more with the new AAGP PLATINUM Membership for less than 55 cents a day. That's less than the cost of one can of soda and way less than a cup of coffee! It's also much healthier for you too!
THERE'S GOLD IN THEM HILLS!
LOADING UP THE GRAVELS
BIG SMILES ALL AROUND!