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LDMA Events · Hands-on gold camp events
Learn to find gold from the pros.
Metal detecting, dry washing, high banking, and more, taught hands-on at LDMA's private gold camps. Real instruction, real ground, real gold.
Open to everyone · No LDMA membership needed
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Four ways to learn
Pick your method. We'll put you on the gold.
LDMA prospects, digs, and stockpiles gold-bearing paydirt before every event, so the gold is there when you are. First swing or twenty years in, you'll leave knowing more, and with gold.
WatchMetal Detecting
Ground balance, sensitivity, sweep speed, and trusting a faint signal in mineralized ground.
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WatchDry Washing
Recover gold with air and vibration, all the way up to multi-box machines like Big Bertha.
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WatchHigh Banking
Classify, feed, and run paydirt, then learn the cleanup that turns black sand into gold.
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WatchDredging
Get in the water and see how a dredge moves material, at camps where it's allowed.
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