Newsletter
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
January 2025
Hope everyone is safe and healthy.
1. The weather is turning. Get your New Year pans in and cons ready for winter gold is $2687/oz
2. January 11th marks our first Board Meeting at 0900 followed by our first year January Chapter Meeting at 1000am at the Elim Lutheran Church in Port Orchard.
3. Come meet up on January 18th 0900 at The Hideaway in Belfair for a morning breakfast with your other miners. Let’s talk 2025 fun.
4. Our Christmas Party was a great success. Plenty of food and laughs for everyone. It really marked a time of greatness for friends and family to come together and celebrate the holiday festivities. Eric Snyder was successful in comic away with a brand new foldable metal detector. He is on the hunt for treasure for sure.
5. Washington State is undergoing a transition from the APPS program to SAW (Secure Access Washington) which will be the new website for submission of all HPAs that you may be applying for. We will see about developing a procedure for HPA submission for Cape Disappointment beach mining when they work the bugs out.
6. The new Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management has completed their software upgrade to the Mineral & Land Records System (MLRS). This site is used for the most up to date mining claims records of public lands. Explore it to see if your area explored is open to claim today ! Found here: https://mlrs.blm.gov/s/
7. It’s not too early to start thinking about our first outing scheduled for 2025 at Cape Disappointment February 15th. You can check for campsite availability here: https://washington.goingtocamp.com or possibly an Air BnB or Hotel. Watch for possible coupons.
8. Our new schedule of 2025 events is out. Posted on our FB page as well as here.
9. Please see our Membership Coordinator to update your 2024/2025 waiver and receive your 2024/2025 dashboard pass.
10. The newest version of the Gold and Fish book is on WDFW’s web site for download here: https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/02150 .
11. Reminder to all the claims are still open and turn your claims work forms into our claims manager Paul Onstott. Happy diggings.
As always we are small scale miners.
Stay healthy
Eric
WE ARE SMALL SCALE MINERS
Membership
You don’t have to be a member of GPAA to be a member of our chapter. You are welcome to mine on the claims that the chapter owns, provided you adhere to mining policies, rules and procedures. No dues are collected. Chapter funds are raised through bake sales, raffles and various other activities. Meeting minutes and By-Laws available for review at chapter meetings.
Please note: Only GPAA members can become chapter officers. Also, non-GPAA members must be with a GPAA member to use GPAA claims.
Claim Passes & Chapter Emergency Contact Info
Miguel and Rebecca have the 2024 year claims passes available and will have them at meeting upon review of your emergency contact information.
If you no longer want to receive email notifications or to be a member of WWGPAA please notify Miguel and Rebecca at the meeting. Thanks.
The new version of the Gold and Fish book is on WDFW’s web site for download here: https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/02150 . All the claims are still open and turn your claims work forms into our claims manager Paul Onstott. Happy diggings.