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Quartzsite Metal Detecting Club!
The club is built on volunteers, so if we have no volunteers, we have no club.
QMDC H
elps Support The Community, March 2024.
QMDC takes an active part in supporting the Quartzsite community, especially education and training for young people. The club has annually supported the after school programs. On behalf of QMDC President Rhonda Bernard and Vice-President Jan Koegler donated $1,000 in after school supplies.
Thank you to all the QMDC members for supporting this donation.
LATEST NEWS
March 24, 2024 QMDC Membership
Last Day to sign up for QMDC Memberships will be March 29, 2024. Memberships will resume November 1, 2024. It’s been a good season, hoping for safe travels for everyone. See you next year!
The board of directors would like to thank every one who participated in our exciting events in the 2023/2024 season. Your continued support makes this club what it is. The meetings, outings and coin hunts are the core of our activities. But … who can forget the raffles and draws and of course contests that put even more excitement into our club. Not to mention pizza at the final coin hunt of this season. This year the Gold Show had a fantastic turn out of visitors and vendors. The club has in the 2023/2024 season been able to support the community, in many different ways, and appreciate the support the community has given to the club! Thank you to all our sponsors in the local area that donated prizes and time. Speaking of time, all the members are lucky to once again have such a great hard working board of directors and a group of volunteers, they are golden!
SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!
Please check our events page for the 2024/2025 schedule.
3/2024 The March coin hunt at the town park was the final hunt of the season. There were 186 participants out to enjoy the day starting at ages 4 and 6 years old! Thank you to the 68 volunteer planters that put 20,000 coins in the ground Saturday morning, yes folks 20,000 coins! All 40 tokens were found for the prize table. The prizes included a MINELAB pin pointer and a MINELAB 440 metal detector. Being the last hunt of the year, pizza was served afterwards in the town pavilion, and there was lots of it! (see pictures in the photo section) Every member went home full of pizza and fun from this fantastic day. I’m sure all the members would like to thank the volunteers that stepped forward this year to help. And especially those members of the board and the directors that made this great day possible. Thank you.
3/2024 The club had it’s outing at one of the claims, and the highlight of the day was the panning contest. The 2024 Gold Panning Champion is Joe Wallingford. He retrieved all four small nuggets in just 19.16 seconds...faster than 21 other contestants! For years, Joe has taught the kids in the Quartzsite After School Program how to pan. After the contest today he helped some of our own members develop panning skills. Thanks, Joe, and congratulations!