(EOMP) is a non-profit corporation, run by volunteers and based in Baker City, Oregon.

Our primary charter is to teach the public safe and sound recreational (hobby) mining techniques which have minimal impact on the environment.

We are actively involved in working with the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation in teaching several hundred elementary school children, from numerous Eastern Oregon school districts, the proper panning techniques at the Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area in Sumpter, Oregon.

EOMP members participate in the education of the general public in a variety of recreational mining techniques at the Miner’s Jubilee in Baker City every July. The three day event draws tourists from all over the west. In addition, we teach panning classes at Sumpter, Oregon “Sumpter Days” every Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day Weekend. Members also attend Baker County Fair in Halfway, Oregon where panning classes are offered to the general public.