GPAA Apache Junction Chapter
GPAA chapter started by East Valley prospectors tired of the drive to Phoenix
- Meets
- 2nd Sunday of the month; check the time with the chapter
- Where
- American Legion Post 27, 1018 S Meridian Rd, Apache Junction
- Members
- About 60
- Claims
- GPAA claims for members of the national association
- Updates
- On the chapter's Facebook group
Club with mining claims for members
Based in Apache Junction, Arizona.
The club's claims are for members only: contact the club to join.
Prospect on your own near Apache Junction
66 gold spots on open public land with no claim on record, within 50 miles.
There are more on the map, some of them with a possible mining claim.
About GPAA Apache Junction Chapter
The Apache Junction chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association of America serves the East Valley of Phoenix. It was started around 2016 by GPAA members who were tired of driving sixty miles or more to reach the Phoenix chapter, among them prospectors who lived as far east as Thatcher.
Today it has about 60 members. The chapter meets on the second Sunday of the month at American Legion Post 27, 1018 S Meridian Rd in Apache Junction; the GPAA asks visitors to confirm the time and place with the chapter, and news goes out on its Facebook group.
Its members don't work alone. When the Phoenix chapter asked for hands in June 2019 to clean up the Soldier Boy and Double J claims, the Apache Junction group turned out with them.
For East Valley prospectors the point of the chapter is simple: a monthly meeting close to home instead of an hour on the freeway, and partners for trips out to the association's claims.
Other clubs and places nearby
- Apache Junction Rock and Gem ClubClub · 2 mi
- Southwest Paleontological SocietyClub · 15 mi
- Mineralogical Society of ArizonaClub · 24 mi
- Pinal Gem and Mineral SocietyClub · 29 mi
- Roadrunner Prospectors ClubClub · 29 mi
- GPAA Phoenix ChapterClub · 30 mi
Where to buy gear nearby
- Arizona Gift CenterShop · 1 mi
- Mammoth Mine Rock ShopShop · 7 mi
- A & B Prospecting Supplies (Mesa)Shop · 10 mi
- Natural ExpressionsShop · 13 mi