Upcoming events.
February Meeting
This month’s class will be on trip load out and mining math! We will be covering the importance of the items you bring, how the items change for the seasons and what type of prospecting you are looking for and how to tell if the ground that you are testing is worth working or if you should move on and find a new location. We will also be raffling off our 3 month prize this meeting, a set of unused/unbitten snake guards and of course our door prizes.
March Meeting
This month’s meeting we will be covering one of our favorite navigation apps GAIA GPS. We will cover all the basics on the app as well as a few of the advanced features that are very useful. Give aways will be our famous door prizes and a lock of our chairman’s hair sealed and framed to put on a wall next to his signed picture.
https://www.gaiagps.com/
April Meeting
This month’s meeting our class will cover reading a river. Have you ever walked to a river and panned most the day and not found little to nothing, while your buddy that walked 50 feet down river walked away with a vial full of gold and lead weights? Come to this month’s class and find out how to read the rivers and streams and prospect effectively. This is the month to pay your yearly membership fee $75 cash. We will be giving away our great door prizes along with a bag of freeze-dried snow from one of our claims.
May Meeting
Those claims for sale on Craigs List are looking pretty good and sound good too! This month we will have a guest speaker, Mr. Rick Salinsky. He will be covering how to find those elusive claims and not fall prey to all the garbage paper filers out there that will rip you off in a heart beat. He will go over what you want to look for when purchasing a claim and how to prospect it before buying. We will be giving away our awesome 3 month prize and our great door prizes this month.
June Meeting
Last month you took notes on how to find and ensure that you are buying a good claim, now it is time to test is and see if it really is as great as advertised and that you will be able to find gold on it. This month we will be covering testing in our class of the month. We will also be giving away our 6 month raffle and those great door prizes.
July Meeting
This month we will be covering you in the dirt that we get covered with when you dry wash. Come to this month’s meeting and see some of the different dry washers and learn the art of dry washing and the dos and don’ts of cleaning dirt. We will have our famous door prizes as well as a chance to see our chairman dry wash with a hat and pair of socks.
August Meeting
This month we will have a guest speaker, geologist Ms. Lucia Patterson. She will be imparting her wisdom and gold prospecting techniques on us. Come with questions and rocks that you think have gold or are a precursor to areas with gold. This month we will be giving away our 3-month prize and some awesome door prizes.
September Meeting
Have you ever gotten ready to go out and felt that you were forgetting something? Come to this month’s meeting and take notes on our class on event trip planning. We will also be covering some of the new and upcoming toys out there and are on the market and may or may not work. We will be giving away our awesome door prizes and a chance to see our president breakdance.
October Meeting
This month we will have our annual class on CPR and First Aid. Come and learn the basics and why it is important to listen to Staying Alive. We will be giving away some great door prizes and go over new claim information.
November Meeting
This month we will have one of our favorite guest speakers, Shannon from AMRA. He will be speaking on prospecting rights and progress in the US as well as showing us on what we are missing out on having a regular job and not playing in the dirt with him. We will be giving away out 3 month prize and a chance to win our door prizes with time during the break to challenge our board of directors to a pepper eating contest.
December Meeting
This is the end of the year, time to find out what you are doing with all that gold you collected in 2026. We will be holding a class on smelting and how to do it safely. We will also be giving away our 6-month prize as well as those great door prizes and lumps of coal out of our chairman’s stocking.
January Meeting
This month we will have one of our favorite guest speakers, Mr. Juan Ibarra from the hit TV shows on the Discovery Channel - Gold Rush and Gold Rush Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan. Juan is a Reno native and sits in the same traffic as us but with a truck that can plow through it all.
Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan on Discovery | Discovery
December Meeting
Merry Christmas!!! Will you be getting gold or coal in your stocking from Santa this year? Only one way to tell!! Come to this months meeting and learn about how to clean up that concentrate! We will also be raffling off our 6 month prize this month, a Gold Hog mini sluice and video of our board of directors showing us how to get mercury off of gold using duct tape and 550 cord!
November Meeting
Take note that this month’s meeting will be Wednesday instead of Tuesday to accommodate our guest speaker. “It is raining gold!!” That is the common phrase people say when they are friends with Shannon, the president of AMRA. Come listen to our guest speaker Shannon Poe speak on AMRA and their efforts to help out the small-time miner as well as show us what they have been finding. Shannon will also be talking about how miners can’t make a full time living just off their rugged good looks.
American Mining Rights Association – Fighting for your right to mine.
October Meeting
Mining can suck, and so can you if you come to this month’s meeting and take notes on our class on dredging. We will be going over the technique of dredging so that you can gain the knowledge you will need to be a successful dredger.
September Meeting
This month’s meeting we will focus on something that we all have questions about……. filing a mining claim. Claims are filed every day incorrectly and then are stolen faster than your wallet on a New York subway. Don’t let that happen to you. Come to our class and keep your wallet!!!
August Meeting
Do you get lost easy and find yourself having to drag a stick in the dirt to find your way back to your vehicle? If so, you have to come to this month’s meeting on Land Navigation/Maps and Compasses! We will be giving away our 3 month prize this meeting, a 1 Year AMRA membership and combined with the class you will be able to make it back to your vehicle to use it a second time!
American Mining Rights Association – Fighting for your right to mine.
July Meeting
The weather is hot and dry, perfect time to get out and do some dry washing. Join us this month as we talk about the intricate method of dry washing and how to maximize your gold recovery. If we get enough members to show this month, our board of directors will show the lost art of how to dry wash indoors.
June Meeting
This months meeting we will be having a guest speaker Mr. Rick Sloinsky. Rick will be teaching us how to research, locate and stake new claims! We will be giving away our 6 month prize this meeting, a mini high banker! During the break the board of directors will have a contest to see who can eat the most habaneros in one minute.
May Meeting
With the weather warming up and we gain access to more areas, this month’s meeting will be on sluicing, types of sluices and how to maximize your sluice’s ability to catch gold. This month we will be giving away our 3-month raffle prize, a 1-year AMRA membership and an autographed swimsuit photo of our board of directors.
American Mining Rights Association – Fighting for your right to mine.
April Meeting
Join us for a insightful discussion with our guest speaker Steve Herschbach, an influential, well known professional and respected metal detectorist from DetectorProspector.com.
March Meeting
Come Join us for our March meeting as we go over the different types of gold, discuss how it behaves in different environments and most importantly how to find it.
February Meeting
This month’s meeting we will be hosting a special guest speaker, Juan Ibarra from the hit TV series Gold Rush. Come join us for this exciting meeting and results from our January outing to Rye Patch! We will be drawing our 3-month raffle prize this month, a 1-year AMRA membership along with a one-of-a-kind autographed photo of our claim’s director digging!
Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan | Discovery
American Mining Rights Association – Fighting for your right to mine.
January Meeting
Come join us this month to ring in the New Year with a class on panning, the different types of pans and their effectiveness. Learn how you can increase your speed and better your chances at finding gold.
Firearm safety
This meeting will be the drawing for our 3 month and 6 month prizes. We will also be giving a short refresher firearms safety class and our very own board of directors singing Christmas carols during the break.
Outing To Chunky Monkey (Metal Detecting)
Meet at the Flying J / McDonalds in Winnemucca @ 0800. We will be departing shortly there after. Bring food and Water. This is an all day trip to the claim.
November Meeting
Novembers meeting will focus on detecting. We will be covering the different types of detectors, the differences between them, the pros and cons and which work best based on what you are looking for.
October Meeting
Come join us for our October meeting with our special guest speaker from AMRA. He will be talking about mining law and geology with gold specimen examples. Notice that this meeting will be on Wednesday, not our normal Tuesday meeting day.
July Outing
Please come join us for a fun filled day of dry washing. Come practice what you learn with us at the July meeting. Meet at the Silverado Casino parking lot in Fernley NV, near the gas station at 0900 AM. Bring plenty of water, sunscreen, appropriate clothing, gloves, a lunch and prepare to get dusty.
July Meeting
It is that time of the year! DRYWASHING season. We are having a class on the fundamentals of dry washing.
June Meeting
Mountain Mike's Pizza (map)
Come join us for an instruction class on desert environment, as well as plants in our area.
June Outing !!!
We will be going to a newly staked claim. Please join us for this fun filled day of detecting and looking for rocks. Meet at Fernley, NV Silverado casino parking lot, near the gas station @ 0900.
1380 W Newlands Dr Fernley, NV 89408
May Meeting
It’s warming up out there. Just in time for a class on snipping & understanding where to look for that pocket of gold we all dream about. Come join us for snipping.
April Meeting
Welcome all to our April Sluice class. Just in time for the warm weather. Come one, come all, to an excellent class in the fine art of sluicing.
March Meeting
Our march meeting will cover panning techniques. There are lots of ways to pan. Come join us to learn a few styles & the basic do’s and do not’s.
February Meeting
Come Join us for our first class of the year. We will be teaching loadout (what to bring)! This is a important foundational class. We will go over metal detecting & sluicing gear bags.