On January 28, 2026 GOLD hit an all-time high of $5,626.80/oz!
Due to the recent and continuous upward jumps in the price of GOLD, many are now shifting from GOLD prospecting as only a hobby to a supplemental or even a primary source of income! Constantly we are contacted by those who are either already retired or about to retire and want to enjoy this wonderful hobby while at the same time supplementing their current or future expected retirment income. There has never been a time like this in history nor a better time to join a recreational GOLD prospecting club where you can just go out and dig up the GOLD! The Arizona Association of Gold Prospectors can help you successfully accomplish this and start building your own personal, independent and unrestricted annual income today!
The AAGP is the premier recreational GOLD prospecting and mining club in Arizona, home of the Grand Canyon. If finding GOLD in Arizona is your desire, you will find we are an exciting and very active prospecting club that is dedicated to bringing fun, entertainment and education to the novice, intermediate, and advanced prospector through placer GOLD prospecting and mining activities for both the individual and family members. Each AAGP club chapter is dedicated to providing members with monthly meetings, prospecting and mining events such as outings and common digs, and great local claims to prospect on. If digging, panning, dredging, sluicing, highbanking, drywashing, NUGGET shooting or you simply enjoy outdoor sports then you need to check us out! AAGP members are assured that there will always be plenty of fun and excitement to be had, prospecting to do, and GOLD to be found.
AAGP members prospect and mine on some of the best mining claims in the "golden triangle" of Arizona with the majority only 1 to 2 hours drive of the Phoenix metropolitan area! We are also the only GOLD prospecting club in Arizona to offer it's members special event access to a commercial placer GOLD mining operation! The commercial placer mining operation is located in the shadow of Red Picacho Volcano in the junction of the Wickenburg and Hieroglyphic mountains near Wickenburg and Morristown. Other clubs may offer a week-long access to a trommel operation, but it is usually only during the summer for 1-6 weeks and at an additional $2,500 - $6,000 investment per week above and beyond your membership dues! Both are wonderful, fun opportunities, but you have to ask yourself, how much is the other club's membership really costing you for the activities you really want to be able to enjoy? AAGP members also enjoy great GOLD prospecting opportunities year-round on the three major GOLD bearing and GOLD moving washes in the San Domingo Mining District: the San Domingo Wash, Little San Domingo Wash and Ox Wash! Every smart prospector in the area knows he wishes he could prospect on these three washes! And now he can by joining the AAGP!
Other club opportunities include if you are interested in buying placer GOLD we can give you the information on the where and what so you can buy GOLD online today! We even offer Professional GOLD prospecting lessons and adventures for those who would like to experience the thrill of the (G)Old West and finding GOLD in Arizona. Through the Paydirt Mining Company you can now be one of the few lucky people to participate in an Arizona GOLD Mining Adventure. These exclusive opportunities are only available to prospectors through the AAGP! When you join a GOLD prospecting club, be sure it's the AAGP so you can start getting your share of the Gold!
OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SITE!
GOLD, always a joy to see in both your pan and your hand.
THERE'S GOLD IN THEM HILLS!
The coutryside at the operation
site is beautiful and majestic! The
nights are even more so if you like
to stargaze!
LOADING UP THE GRAVELS
Round and round she goes processing the gravels. Now this
is the funest and easiest way
around to find GOLD!
BIG SMILES ALL AROUND!
This prospecting club will show you that it's fun mining placer GOLD!
Moving all those gravels usually means one thing, LOTS OF GOLD FOR EVERYONE!
ADVANTAGES OF YOUR AAGP MEMBERSHIP
The AAGP "Basic", "Gold-Getter" and "Platinum" memberships give you access to the only club-based year-round commercial placer GOLD mining operation in the world!
With your AAGP Membership you will receive the following:
1. YOU will receive a personal minimum 15%-20% discount on all Special Events hosted by any local AAGP chapter in Arizona. All members also have access to many AAGP events including Common Operation GOLD Digs, Nugget Fest Commercial Common Digs, Splash Bash Common Digs, Nugget Shootouts, Pot Luck Dinners, Treasure Hunts, educational and entertaining GOLD Prospecting Seminars & Classes and Club Outings and local Chapter Meetings.
2. YOU will personally have access to some great mining claims in the state of Arizona to prospect and best of all, YOU GET TO KEEP ALL THE GOLD THAT YOU FIND! AAGP claims are located within an hour's drive from the Phoenix metropolitan area in the Wickenburg/Morristown area. This location is at the junction of the Wickenburg and Heiroglyphic mountains in the area with the richest GOLD production history in Maricopa County.
3. YOU will receive your personalized AAGP Annual Membership Name Badge and your personalized AAGP Claims Guide with easy to read maps and directions to all of the club claims. This will assist you to make sure you are on the right claims to help avoid any unpleasant confrontations in the field. No one likes a thief, or in this case a high grader, and removing minerals from active mineral claims wihout permission is an illegal criminal activity and violators are prosectued! Mineral Theft is a Felony in Arizona so join a legitimate and long standing GOLD prospecting club like the AAGP to be safe and legal!
4. YOU will receive, when scheduled, 1 TO 5 FREE DAYS at a Club GOLD Dig each year including the Christmas Dig.
5. YOU will receive a FREE GOLD sample with every AAGP membership. GOLD Getters and Platinum Members also receive a FREE GOLD Nugget! For over 31 years now the AAGP is the ONLY GOLD PROSPECTING CLUB to give it's new members FREE GOLD! What does that tell you about all the rest?
All AAGP memberships give you the above benefits and the GOLD Getter and Platinum memberships give you even more advantages!
6. In addition to all five of the above benefits of an AAGP membership, GOLD Getter and Platinum members now receive a huge $100 discount off their first professional GOLD prospecting lesson during their first year!
7. In addition to all six of the above benefits of an AAGP membership, GOLD Getter and Platinum members now have access to renting a complete set of drywashing prospecting equipment on a first come-first served basis. Equipment rental is limited to currently available equipment. Reservation required!
Get all of the above plus a whole lot more with the new AAGP PLATINUM Membership for less than 55 cents a day. That's less than the cost of one can of soda and way less than a cup of coffee! It's also much healthier for you too!
2 Hours Of Good Claim Testing Results!SOME DAYS IT REALLY PAYS TO GO OUT!
UPDATE! - Weather over the last decade helps expose and uncover more GOLD for local prospectors! Here's an example. October 2018 was the wettest October and helped make 2018 the 3rd wettest year on record! The next year in December 2019 was one of the wettest Decembers ever on record. This trend continued through 2022 but with a little less Winter rain since. These wetter years help make finding more GOLD out on the claims easier! All of this rain has moved a lot of GOLD bearing gravels and many members are finding a lot of newly uncovered GOLD out on the claims. This GOLD exposure continues to give more GOLD to AAGP members every year!
Every year since 2021, including this year, January through March has been a wonderful, warm and sunny beginning to the new year making it great for being out on the claims. We are currently having the same great weather in 2026. As always, many of our Winter members are having a great time here in the warmer sun. The GOLD they are finding gleams beautifully in the nice warm sun! In a recent year in April, a new member from Alaska found 3 beautiful nuggets in 7 hours of work over 2 days that paid for his new GOLD Getter membership! So if you want to enjoy the sunny warm days prospecting beautiful GOLD, join the AAGP now and come on down here and get out where the GOLD flows like the warm sun! You too can be enjoying this wonderful sunny and nice weather with us while you find and take home the GOLD!
There has never been a better time in human history to prospect for GOLD! Due to the highest prices in history now being paid for GOLD, you can now easily supplement your income with only 1 or 2 days a month average of GOLD prospecting. In fact, at current rates, you only need to find 1/15th an ounce of the small pieces of GOLD commonly called colors, or 2 grams, to pay for your AAGP GOLD Getter membership! If you find lrge flakes and nuggets, the amount needed drops down in weight as those go for a premium to collectors over spot price! If you want to learn how to find even more GOLD, check out our professional GOLD prospecting lessons so you can find and go home with even more GOLD from our local beautiful and bountiful AAGP claims.
THERE'S GOLD IN THEM HILLS!
LOADING UP THE GRAVELS
BIG SMILES ALL AROUND!
