Gold Country Treasure Seekers (Placerville)
Nonprofit club in the heart of the Mother Lode, founded in the early 1980s, for metal detecting and gold prospecting: many members hunt gold nuggets with detectors and pan the local rivers. Meetings on the third Monday of each month at 7 PM at the Veterans Memorial Building, 130 Placerville Drive, Placerville, with show-and-tell of members' finds; the club also runs training hunts. Website: gcts.club.
Prospect on your own near Placerville
791 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.
Other clubs and places nearby
- El Dorado County Mineral & Gem SocietyClub · 4 mi
- Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic ParkFree public dig · 6 mi
- South Fork American River at Greenwood Creek (BLM)Free public dig · 9 mi
- Auburn State Recreation Area (American River)Free public dig · 17 mi
- River City Prospectors (GPAA Sacramento)Club · 23 mi
- Roseville Rock RollersClub · 25 mi