Southern Indiana Chapter of the GPAA
Southern Indiana Chapter of the GPAA
Your local gold prospecting club from Brown County
Yes there IS gold in Indiana
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Our Friend Robin Stevens
At The Gatesville Country Store
GPAA stands for Gold Prospectors Association of America (C)
2850 E. County Rd. 875 S.
Mooresville Indiana 46158
317-539-4836
How to find Gatesville Indiana ---->> Map Page
We meet at the store in Gatesville at the crossroads of North Saltcreek Rd and Gatesville Rd
To call Gatesville a small town is not really fair to small towns. Gatesville is more of a tiny town, well its really just a
store a firehouse and some houses with Saltcreek
running thru it, but Saltcreek has gold even if it is glacier gold.
INDEMNITY AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY FORM
Thanks to Chuck Lassiter from Midwest Prospctor
If you have a Orginzation or club or something like that you want us to post here let us know
Gold prospecting - fastest growing outdoor recreation in Indiana
Everyones doing it.why not you?
Click here to go to the yahoo Group Page Forums
Welcome to the Southern Indiana GPAA website for the 2012 season
Southern Indiana Gold Prospctors is a member of the (GPAA) Gold Prospectors Association of America
Come on down to Gatesville Indiana and get yourself some gold
There are more places in Indiana then Brown County and Salt Creek to find gold.
Ask around and you may find more
If you are new to prospecting please check out one of Indiana's local clubs.
They are free to join and will be happy to help you out and get you started right.
You may also make some new friends along the way.
It really is more then putting dirt in a pan and shaking it around.
We have 3 clubs in Indiana right now and maybe more on the way.
Check out our links to the other chapters.
For most of us this is just a hobby and a way to get out of the house and into the creek.
There are a few guys making money prospecting (in Indiana) but not me.
They work alot harder at it then I do, hobbys should be fun not work.
But its a great hobby and alot of fun for the family.
We are a local chapter of the GPAA (gold prospectors) from Southern Indiana.
With gold prospecting being the fastest growing outdoor recreation in Indiana,
its important that the new people get started out right, we are here to help with
that. Everybody is always welcome to join our club
(its free to join local chapters) or drop by a meeting and ask questions...
we are happy to help.
All you need to do to become a member of the Southern Chapter is say
you want to..... how much easer could that be?
We have drawings at the meetings and give door prizes.
For a link to all the photos taken this day by myself
October 8th 2011
If anyone knows of a group of boy/girl scouts needing an outdoor activity award or badge for nature I beleve prospecting works towards them.
Our group would like to help, We will set up demos of prospecting and show you how its done.
We can supply small groups at a time the pans and other gear needed. We have experience with scout groups up to 50 or more and would love to hear from your group.
Also church groups and other groups are welcome. Give us a call.
We would be happy to set it up free to all. Please send a message to one of our officers.
Now is the best time to start setting things up for next year.
Every one is always welcome to drop by a meeting and check it out or just say Hi.
All local chapters are always free to join
The winner of the BIG nugget drawing for 2011
That's the problem with the inevitable: it always happens.
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Theres more to gold prospecting then BIG nuggets
Its all in the small details
Saw this on the oregon gold web site.... I think it says about everything needed to be said!
Check out there site at
Copyright 2010/2012 C.L.Snyder/Southern Chapter GPAA. All Rights Reserved.
The club will meet every 2nd Saturday of
the month at 1:00pm in Gatesville Indiana
from March thru October
Check out our newest link on links page
metaldetector.com
Hobby, Security and Industrial Metal Detectors
for Every Use
Club meetings start at 1:00pm 2nd Saturday of every month March to October
Club meetings start at 1:00pm 2nd Saturday of every month March to October
Most of our members are more then just gold prospectors
We are treasure hunters as well.
Most have used a metal detector
Or picked up an artifact from the creek
Spear point or arrowhead
or just an odd looking rock
Some collect garnets or Indiana Dimonds
Nugget winner Jim Bowers and club President Tom Smith
Yes! There is gold in Indiana
Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
The DNR people have posted prospecting info on their website
With PDFs, Maps & Gold locations in Indiana
Plus much more
Drop by there and see what they have
spring begins Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Our next club meeting will be June 9th
at 1:00pm at Gatesville Indiana
I almost made it into the photo
Well it was a good meeting even if it was a little wet
It rained off and on but we were in the shelter house.
There were about 20 or 25 people there, Some new
folks as well. I don't have alot of photos
I was not taking my camrea out in that rain .
Jim had his highbanker setup and a few more where
in the creek but it was raining to hard for me to get
in the water.... Hate to get wet.
Our two nugget winners for April 14th
I hope to have some more photos up soon
One more small bit of change
I have moved our photos for the past
events from Coppermine website to
Photobucket. I hope everything will
flow smoother with the change
<--- My sister Rita's cat "Dori"
Ain't she cute?
These are the things I think are funny or cute
If anyone finds any of the jokes or cartoons
offensive in anyway please let me know and
I will remove it
Also if you think I should move this to its
own page or whatever send me an Email
(C.L.Snyder Webmaster)
In memory of Bill Ming - Dec. 31, 1945-Oct. 13th 2011
A friend lost to soon and to suddenly
Officers
Tom Smith - President tjsmith@iendeavor.com
Carl Kelle - Treasurer cekelle@msn.com
Rita Snyder - Secretary wantgold2dig@yahoo.com
Clarence Snyder - WebMaster snyder47201@yahoo.com
Edward Romine - Vice President &
State Director of the GPAA e.romine@insightbb.com
+ around 30,00 more from old counter
One of the Brown County Overlooks in the Park
Club meeting for May 12th 2012
Southern Indiana Gold Club
We had about 28 people show up for our May meeting. Around 10 were new members.
The Secretary Rita Snyder reported old new then Carl Kelle our Treasurer reported we were in the red
then Tom Smith our President closed the meeting....... one of the fastet we have ever had.
Carl sold a few t-shirts and gave Robin money for the shelterhouse.
There were also like 6 or 7 door prizes but I never won any of then.
Most of the winners were.....
And some that tried but never won
But this guy won this nugget and gave it to his sister
Sorry about the photos but I forgot my good camera and used Rita's I-phone for the pics
It takes good photos but must have had a dirty lens or something
This is a really great club with really great people
Bill does some really nice work as you can see and the prices are not bad either.
Bill's a member of our club and a heck of a wood worker I guess... I mean look at his work!
Edward Romine the VP and his family never made it to this months meeting.
Lets hope there doing ok. Its been a bad year for the Romine so far this year.
Let us know you guys are ok ok?
See you all next month
Starting a new thing here.... Web link of the month
One of our link sites will get front page coverage
For a full month
