Welcome
The Prospectors and Miners Association of Victoria is a voluntary body established to protect and enhance the rights and opportunities of those who wish to prospect, fossick or mine in the State of Victoria, Australia.
From recreational prospector to smaller scale miner - the PMAV is protecting your interests.
Our membership ranges from prospectors using gold pans, sluices and metal detectors to find gold, gemstones or other minerals, to those using machinery on mining licences.
Most of the largest gold nuggets ever found were from the central Victorian goldfields, we also enjoy deposits of many other valuable or interesting minerals.
Despite this, the Right to conduct these activities in Victoria is constantly under threat from those who seek to abolish the Rights and Privileges won through the stand taken by miners and their supporters at Eureka, Ballarat in 1854.
The PMAV will not surrender these Rights or Privileges - we are passionate in our belief that individual prospectors and miners must have fair and reasonable access to a share of this State's considerable mineral wealth.
At Bullumwaal Victoria
The East Gippsland branch of the PMAV recently held a “Come & try prospecting” and Allied crafts display day at the historic Bullumwaal Hall, in the heart of one of Gippslands most historically diverse & productive goldfields. Panners at Boggy Crk The Bullumwaal goldfield is located on the upper reaches of Boggy Creek approximately 40 minutes drive from Bairnsdale. The "come & try day" held on the Sunday of the Labour day long weekend was well attended despite the inclement weather.
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