The membership may want to consider establishing guidelines for the types of equipment that can be used on some of our club claims. Quartzville Creek Claim Because the Quartzville Creek placer claim is relatively small and shared by our membership, higher-impact equipment—such as dredges, highbankers, or other large processing equipment—can work a significant amount of ground in a short period of time. This could potentially reduce the available ground and gold before other members have an opportunity to enjoy the claim. One option for the membership to consider would be limiting the Quartzville Creek claim to lower-impact prospecting methods, such as gold pans, classifiers, hand tools, and small portable sluices.…