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This section is provided for foreign clubs and organizations related to gold mining.
Club Directories / Foreign Prospecting Channel.com World Prospecting Clubs Great listings of foreign gold clubs! International Clubs & Organizations Gold Prospectors Association of America (G.P.A.A.) 43445 Business Park Dr., Suite 113 Temecula, CA 92590 USA PO Box 891509 Temecula, CA 92589 USA Contact: Robert Henry 1-909-699-4749, 1-800 551-9707 or fax: 1-909-699-4062 E-Mail: info@goldprospectors.org Clubs & Organizations/Foreign Africa South African Gold Panning Association PO Box 1316 Barberton 1300 South Africa Phone: +13 7199681 Australia Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association of Western Australia, Inc., The PO Box 2570 Boulder Western Australia 6432 E-Mail: robijn@southwest.com.au APLA is Western Australia's premier prospecting association and helps protect the rights of the states non-corporate prospectors. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, The (AusIMM) E-Mail: marketing@ausimm.com.au The AusIMM has a strategic alliance with the Australian Mineral Foundation. Bendigo Prospectors club, Inc. PO.box 2497.Bendigo mail centre Victoria 3554 Australia. Brisbane Prospecting Club Brisbane, Australia Contact: Danny Van der Walle E-Mail: unavailable Gulong Prospecting Club PO Box 348 Belmont 3216 Victoria, Australia Contact: Shelia Middleton Sydney Electronic Prospecting Club Inc. PO Box 488 Miranda, NSW, 2228 Sydney, Australia E-Mail: unavailable Canada Alberta Gold Prospectors Association 3020 Sanctuary Rd. Calgary T2G 5C9 Contact: Marj Lawrence E-Mail: unavailable British Columbia Placer Miners Association (BCPMA) c/o Cal Olsson 11391 Okanagan Centre. Rd. E., Winfield BC, V4V 1G7 Contact: Cal Olsson Ph: 1-250-766-4071 Contact: Merv Lewis E-Mail: mervlewis@cablelan.net or cal-ole@cablelan.net The British Columbia Placer Miners Association is an organization made up of local associations, clubs and companies with members interested in doing placer mining/ prospecting and related activities. The scope of the organization includes recreational as well as small and large scale placer prospecting/mining ventures. As a group we have a lot of fun as well, networking together. Cariboo Miners Association Located in Quesnel, British Columbia Canada Anyone with an interest in the Cariboo or BC regions invited to join. Klondike Placer Miners' Association 3151 B Third Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1G1 Ph: 867-667-2267 or Fax: 867-668-7127 E-Mail: kpma@kpma.ca Object: -Promote the interests and conserve the rights of those engaged in the placer mining industry in the Yukon. (Klondike Placer Miner's Constitution & By-laws.) -Promote sustainable placer mining and placer exploration in the Yukon. -Promote best practices for placer mining. -Educate the General public on modern, responsible placer mining and placer exploration. Activity: -Negotiations with government involving legislation, regulations and policy affecting placer mining are the Association's principal activity. There is currently a high rate of new and amended legislation and regulation in process, all adding to the cost of placer mining. The KPMA continues to promote modern, responsible placer mining with regulations that will allow the industry to continue to be a major economic contributor in Yukon. -The KPMA remains the only credible voice of the placer industry with Government. We need your support and membership to continue our lobbying efforts on behalf of all placer miners. -Placer miners and Yukon business who rely on the mining industry, BE INFORMED, BE INVOLVED, and JOIN US TODAY ! Northern Prospectors Association P.O. Box 535 Kirkland Lake, ON P2N 3J5 Ph: 1-705-642-1982 E-Mail: ravenr@nt.net The NPA holds its meetings on the first Thursday of every month. The meetings are held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Kirkland Lake, in the Larry Brown room (Blue room). Nuggets Unlimited 406-1240 12th Ave. S.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T3C 0P3 Contact: Terry West 1-403-245-6455 or fax: 1-403-263-7619 E-Mail: unavailable Join the treasure adventure! Pan for gold in the glorious Canadian Rocky Mountains with your lifetime camping and gold prospecting membership! You find it, you keep it! N.U. is a recreational gold prospecting club with land leases near Banff National Park in Canada. Ontario Prospectors Association 1000 Alloy Drive Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada P7B 6A5 Contact: Garry Clark (Chairman of the OPA) Tel: (807)622-3284 or Fax: (807)622-4156 Email: gclark@ontarioprospectors.com The OPA is the parent group for all the regional associations in Ontario Canada. Objectives: The objectives of the Ontario Prospectors Association are to represent and further the interests of the mineral exploration industry and the individual prospector. History: The association started life in the late 1980's as the Ontario Mineral Exploration Federation (OMEF), a group formed to help provide industry input into the drafting of the new Mining Act for Ontario. In December, 1994, the name was changed to the Ontario Prospectors Association to more clearly convey who the group represented, and its close relationship to the regional Ontario prospecting groups. Publications: The official voice of the OPA is The Explorationist, a newsletter which is published 10 times a year and distributed to the members of several of the associated member groups of the OPA. Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 34 King Street East, Suite 900 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2X8 Tel: 416-362 1969 or fax: 416-362 0101 E-Mail: info@pdac.ca The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada is the national voice for the Canadian mineral exploration and development community and provides a forum for information exchange, ensuring a strong mining industry for the benefit of all Canadians. Vancouver Island Placer Miners Association 2785 Sooke Rd. Victoria, B.C. Canada V9B 1Y8 Contact: Bruce Chaytor 1-250-478-9303 or fax: 1-250-478-9274 E-Mail: bchaytor@pacificcoast.net Vernon Placer Miner's Club PO Box 1691 Vernon B.C. Canada V1T 8C3 Contact: Clare Hewson Phone: 1-250-542-0494 E-Mail: chewson@hotmail.com (Subject: Miners Club) The Vernon Placer Miners Club is a very active club and are proud sponsors of the annual BC Open Gold Panning Competition held the weekend before May 24 (Canadian May 24th long weekend). This family event is held at the Gold Panner Campground in Cherryville and is open to the public . Many events for the entire family including panning competitions, gold rush, pan toss, claim staking and bannock baking. Our primary objective is to promote the heritage of placer mining in British Columbia, Canada and encourage good fellowship among all placer miners and recreational miners whom we meet beside the stream. Czechoslovakia Czech Gold Panning Club Geologicka 6 Prague5 Barrandov, ZIP 152 00 Contact: Pavel Lhotsky E-Mail: lhotsky@cgu.cz Finland Gold Museum Mr. Kauko Launonen Goldvillage 99695 Tankavaara France Bienvenue sur le site de la Fédération Française d'Orpaillage E-Mail: sergenenert@netcourrier.com Gold digger in France http://orpailleur.free.fr/index.php Handbook of the Gold digger, Gold washer, on line, Gold bearing zones of France and much more. Has english translation. Federation Francaise d' Orpillage Salle 605 Complexe de la Republique 64000 PAU France Rhon'Or c/o Jacques Brest 6 rue V. Komarov 69200 Venissieux France Tel: +33/4-72-51-00-69 Germany Deutsche Goldsuchervereinigung e.V. c/o Norbert Kurtz Sickenreuther Str. 27 95497 Goldkronach, Germany German Gold Panning Association KIrchgasse 25 95497 Goldkronach Germany Minifossi Werner Stork AG MINIFOSSI Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mineralien, Fossilien & Gold Friedrich-Ebert-Schule D-79650 Schopfheim Telefon +49 7622 7091 or Telefax +49 7622 8757 E-Mail: minifossi@mail.pcom.de Italy Italie Associazione Biellese Cercatori d'Oro (ABCDORO) Biella Gold Prospectors' Association Piazza Mazzini n.54 13872 BORRIANA (BI) Italy E-Mail: unavailable Biella Gold Panner's Association (North Western Italy - Piedmont Region). Send us an e-mail in order to receive as much information as possible about gold panning in Italy and Biella province particularly. Japan All Japan Gold Panning Association c/o Noboru Ichikawa 154 Hamatonbetsu Esashi-gun Hokkaido, Japan Panama Panama Gold Adventures Ph: 1-504-720-3018 E-Mail; pangoldadv@yahoo.com Country: Panama, C.A Gold panning adventures in the hidden canyons, and jungle river streams of Panama,C.A. We are the best in the business so bring your family, friends and corporate executives for a fun get-a-way." Adventures are conducted year round! We are also a local gold prospecting club, not just a travel attraction/destination. The only one in Panama for the record. As a club we do offer other clubs discounts. Poland Polish Guild of Gold Prospectors 59-500 Z3otoryja Poland Rynek 1 tel.: (+48 76) 87 83 778 or fax: (+48 76) 87 81 873 E-Mail: herba@tomcat.wroclaw.tpsa.pl Sweden Guld Graevarnas Foerening (GGF) Mr. Lars Guldstrom Adelfors, 570 15 Holsbybrunn Sweden Phone: Int'l + 46 383 460 110 or fax: Int'l +46 383 460 109 E-Mail: goldwashing@guldstrom.se This site is bilingual. Ovre Norrlands Guldgravarklubb c/o Borje Ohman Bredsel 81 SE-942 95 Vidsel Sweden E-Mail: Tidnings-redaktör fobbe@vittangi.com Svenska guldvaskarfoereningen Moraenvaegen 26 S-13651 Haninge Sweden Contact: Johnny Hagberg, President E-Mail: johnny.hagberg@telia.com Switzerland Swiss Gold Prospectors Association, The Schweizerische Goldwdschervereinigung (They have an English version of their page) Peter Pfander Schwanden 32 3054 Sch|pfen Switzerland E-Mail: Unavailable United Kingdom UK Gold Panner's Association 12 Pikepurse Lane Richmond Yorkshire DL10 4PS England Contact: Michael Gossage
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