Round Rock Chapter of the GPAA

News and Updates

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JULY OUTING AT MALCOM LONG'S The Round Rock and Llano Chapters are hosting an outing at Long's Fish and Digs, July 10th and 11th. See the "Events" page for details. There is a map link to Malcom's above.

JUNE MEETING CANCELLED Our next meeting will be Saturday, July 17th, at 4pm. We will elect new Chapter officers for 2010.

HALLIBURTON OUTING GOLD!!! See the gold recovered by Mason at the recent Halliburton Outing on our "TX Gold" page. Pictures from the outing can be found here. Thanks to John Griffin for taking these pix.

NEW SHOWS ON PROSPECTINGCHANNEL.COM Joey Wilson has just released the new "Mineral Expedition" series with 3 new shows. Watch them here. He has also released a new show on "How to Build and Use a Gold Suction Tube". Watch episode here.

GOLD FOUND IN TEXAS! I want to thank all of you for sending me pictures of your Texas gold and have created a new page showing off your finds. Click on the "TX Gold" link to the left to see what has been found. If you want your find added, send your pictures along with details on how and where you found it to texasgold@roundrockgpaa.net .

2009 HALLIBURTON APRIL OUTING PIX John Griffin has once again taken time out of prospecting to snap some pictures. He has posted them here. Thank you to everyone who gambled on the weather and came out. Conditions weren't perfect but I heard several prospectors found color. I saw some gold in the cons of one dredger. Special Thanks go out to John Brueckner and John Griffin. They both took time off from prospecting to help coordinate the outing. We had a total of 51 guests throughout the weekend.

2008 HALLIBURTON FALL OUTING PIX I am still putting together all of the pictures from the outing and will have a page up soon. John Griffin has posted his pictures here. Thanks John for taking the time to snap these photos. If anyone else took pictures and would like to share them, send them to me.

ARE YOU A BLOGGER? We have added a new category to our "Links" page called "Prospecting Blogs". Send me your link to have your blog page posted. Thanks to David Hart for being our first entry.

MAKING YOUR OWN CLASSIFIERS Thanks to Roland S for this link. This website sells screen material of all mesh sizes. Click here for detailed instructions to find the right material.

EMAIL UPDATE NOTICE We are currently compiling a 2010 members e-mail list. If you have not entered your e-mail address to our database, please follow this link.