A & B Prospecting Supplies (Mesa)
Arizona's best-known prospecting supply store, in the same Mesa storefront since 1981
- Where
- 3929 E Main St, Suite 32, Mesa, AZ 85205 (Godfrey Square)
- Sells
- Metal detectors, drywashers, sluices, highbankers and recirculators, dredges and pumps, pans and classifiers, concentrators, rock crushers, assay and refining supplies
- Brands
- Minelab, Garrett, Fisher, Falcon, Keene, Proline, Royal, RDH, Estwing
- Orders
- In the store, by phone (480) 832-4524, or on the website
- Since
- 1979; in this storefront since 1981
- Run by
- Ryan and Jocelyn DeShon
Dealer: sells gear built by other companies
Prospecting store since 1979: Minelab, Garrett, Fisher, Keene, Falcon
Shop with a storefront
In Mesa, Arizona.
What they sell: Metal detectors · Gold pans & classifiers · Sluice boxes · Highbankers & power sluices · Dredges & parts · Drywashers · Picks, shovels & hand tools · Fine gold recovery · Assay & refining supplies
Ships nationwide.
Where to use your gear near Mesa
50 gold spots on open public land with no claim on record, within 50 miles.
29 gem and mineral spots on open public land with no claim on record, within 50 miles.
Nearest open public land on our fossil and meteorite map: about 73 miles away.
There are more on the map, some of them with a possible mining claim.
About A & B Prospecting Supplies (Mesa)
A&B Prospecting Supplies started in 1979 in the garage of Frank Lynn. Two years later he moved it into a storefront in Godfrey Square, a strip mall on Main Street in Mesa, and the shop has never left that unit. It calls itself the Southwest's largest prospecting store.
Frank Lynn ran it until 1992, when he sold it to Wally and Joyce DeShon, who built a mail-order catalog that reached customers across the country. In 2005 the business passed to Ryan and Jocelyn DeShon. They took it online, kept handing out printed catalogs at trade shows, and opened a second store in Prescott Valley.
The range follows the work from dirt to metal. For finding and digging there are detectors from Minelab, Garrett, Fisher and Falcon, Keene and Royal drywashers for dry desert washes, and sluices, highbankers, dredges, pumps and hookah diving gear for wet ground, plus pans, classifiers and hand tools. For the last steps there are concentrators such as the Gold Cube, rock crushers, and assay and refining supplies: furnaces, chemicals, fireware and lab glass.
Gear from small local makers shares the shelves, among it the Falcon gold probe, made in Mesa, and RDH highbankers. Beginners get their own starter selections, one for prospectors and one for detectorists, and the shop keeps a list of books it thinks are worth reading.
Clubs and places nearby
- Southwest Paleontological SocietyClub · 5 mi
- GPAA Apache Junction ChapterClub · 10 mi
- Apache Junction Rock and Gem ClubClub · 10 mi
- Mineralogical Society of ArizonaClub · 14 mi
- Roadrunner Prospectors ClubClub · 20 mi
- GPAA Phoenix ChapterClub · 21 mi
Other shops and gear makers nearby
- RDH ProspectingOnline shop · 5 mi
- Falcon Metal DetectorsOnline shop · 5 mi
- Natural ExpressionsShop · 8 mi
- Arizona Gift CenterShop · 9 mi
Access
3929 E Main St, Suite 32, Mesa. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm; from June to August closed on Saturdays (by appointment). Phone (480) 832-4524.