Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter – September 2018

Welcome

Welcome to the 2018 GOLD FEVER Newsletter.  Another year, another gold prospecting opportunity.  If you have not tried to find gold, you need to give it a try.  Let us know if you need help to get started, there are many people with experience that the help you.

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President’s Message

  Update on Dave Ambroes his shoulder is slowly getting better he can raise it over his head now but not with any large amount of weight. He is rehabbing at the gym daily and hopes to get to the October meeting but isn't up for the outing yet. He has been doing research on (summer branch drop). It is a phenomenal that happens during hot humid days without wind were branches just break and fall for no apparent reason. I looked it up there is a lot of articles on it. He believes this might have been the cause of the tree breaking and hitting him.

 I am leaving for Roaring River camp on Sept 1 will be back on the 10th that didn't leave much time to get ready for a meeting on the third weekend that is why we are having our outing on the fourth weekend this month. The October meeting will be back at the town of Lagrange town hall on the third weekend of October 20th. Wayne and I will report on our week stay at Roaring Camp, it is also election time.

See you in the creeks Mike Fait             

Upcoming Events

 September 8, 2018 – Wausau Prospectors Outing - Black River slucing for Diamonds and Gold

September 22, 2018 – (4^th Saturday) Tomah Outing to Nugget Lake

October 6, 2018 – Wausau Prospectors Meeting/Program – Election of Officers’ & California Gold Prospecting

October 20, 2018 - Tomah Club Meeting Town of LaGrange Town Hall – at 1:00 pm – 2019 Election of Officers

Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes August 18, 2018

Old Business:                                                                                                                                                              

The August meeting was held at Tomah Club Meeting Town of LaGrange Town Hall - 13 members and guests attended, with three new members present.

Meeting started with a pledge to the flag. Mike gave the financial report, and discussed the upcoming sept 22 outing to Nugget Lake.

   Wayne Ellefson demonstrated the GOLD MINER gold wheel. He ran some concentrates to show how it worked while giving a running explanation of what you needed for best recovery. He also show his new metal detector he is taking to California to look for gold with. It is a French made DUCE detector, it is wireless and comes with 14 programs, and very light headphones.

 He showed an 1893 Indianhead cent he found on the morning of the meeting, he also found a 1894 large Canadian penny last week.

  Rodney Kenyen showed the gold he got at the Burnt river LDMA camp.

 New Business:

The upcoming September 22 outing to Nugget Lake. It will be a group dig with all the concentrates being split with all the participants. We are meeting at 10:00 am by the parking area at the bottom of the hill next to the office where you pay your entry fee. $5 per carload.

If you get there late cross the bridge and listen for the members they will be spread out from the second bridge to the bridge where the two creeks combine. You can prospect anywhere you like then bring all the concentrates to the pavilion by the lake I don't think we will need to reserve them that late in the year but if they are both full then we will go to site #12 to split the concentrates. That is my camp site. The dig is over at 3:00PM. After that you could work for yourself if you have any energy left.

 There will not be a meeting or pot luck so bring your own lunch and drinks. If you are camping you can come to my site for supper I will have hotdogs, beans and beer. Bring a chair.

  Raffles:  

50/50 raffle won by Merlin Meyer

Gold Nugget- Richard Powell

Gold concentates- Larry Bender

Thank you to all that donated items for the Table Raffle – Jeff Hastings, Diane Kollins, Larry Bender, Rich Powell, Rodney Kenyon, and Wayne Ellefson Sr.  Sorry I missed anyone who donated.                                                   

 Gold Price on 8/27/18 was $1,210.80               Silver Price on 8/27/18 was $14.86

Respectfully submitted by Diane North – Newsletter Editor

Tomah Gold Club e-mail:   

Gold Spiral Wheel Concentrators provide Excellent Fine Gold Recovery from Black Sand concentrates

 Why Use a Gold Spiral Wheel? Gold Mining Equipment Shows always have the spiral wheel concentrators featured up front and on display. How often have you watched with amazement as the heavy black sand laden gold concentrates are dumped into the wheel and just seconds later the gold travels up the spirals and drops neatly into the center cup or pan?

For those of you that dredge, sluice, use a highbanker or just process a lot of black sand, the choices for concentrate clean-up are limited to hand panning, using a micro-sluice, a centrifugal style blue bowl, or a spiral concentrating wheel.

After hand panning you will always end up with black sand still in the gold. The micro-sluices and small blue bowls work well but are very slow and you will probably still end up with black sand in your gold. But with a good spiral wheel concentrator properly set up you can process 50 to 150 lbs. of black sand concentrates an hour with very little effort and have clean gold ready to display or sell.

So, if you mine for gold and do not want to sit around for backbreaking hours panning and then picking out the black sand by hand you need to consider an automatic spiral wheel gold concentrator.

FINE GOLD SEPARATION TIP: The importance of classifying your material: Black sand concentrates are a combination of heavy minerals usually with magnetic iron being the main mineral. These dense minerals have a specific gravity in the 5 to 6 range. Gold has a specific gravity of 15 to 19.3 depending on its purity. The black sands will weigh 1/4 to 1/3 as much as the gold. A cubic foot of black sand will weigh about 225 lbs. Or 26.7 lbs. per gallon. These heavy black sands present the major problem in fine gold recovery for recreational gold miners.

Gold, with a specific gravity of 15 to 19.3, and black sands at 5 to 6, when properly screened down to approximately the same size, will allow the gold to be easily separated using a good spiral wheel concentrator. Without proper screening (classification with a sieve), particles many times the size of the gold will climb the spirals and disturb the concentrating action of the water and gravity. As the gold climbs up the spirals this disturbance can cause small grains of black sand, along with the large pieces, to follow the gold up to the center tube and be deposited in the pan. The best rule of thumb to follow is: "The finer the gold, the finer you want to screen your concentrates." Run the material in several different batches of finer and finer material. With proper screening and wheel operation it is possible to recover microscopic (micron) gold down to almost 500 mesh with a high quality gold spiral wheel.

Information taken from:  https://www.goldfeverprospecting.com/goldgenie.html

 Officers – elected for 2018.

President – Michael Fait (mgfait@charter.net) 715-384-9265   (Cell phone to be used only on meeting days = 715-305-8319)

Vice-President – Gary Morrison 715-316-2555

Secretary – Jeanne Morrison 715-316-2555

Newsletter Editor - Diane North (dbnorth@centurytel.net) 608-635-7031

Treasure – Gayle Fait (mgfait@charter.net) 715-384-9265

Outing Chairman – Jeff Hastings (monkeyhast@frontier.net)  (608) 637-3097

Claims Director – Richard Niemyjski (richnski@frontiernet.net) 608-637-3295

State Director – Mike Flint (mwink12@excite.com) 608-372-0694

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Wisconsin Area Clubs

he Kettle Moraine Prospectors of Wisconsin – We still meet in the Community Center in Plymouth, Wi.  on the second Saturday of the month, providing the church doesn't have something else on their schedule .- 1:00 PM Meetings  Contact: Chuck Riel – 414-328-3194 or visit wisgold.org/index.html

Midstate Metal Detecting Club – meets every 3^rd Wednesday at 7:00 pm at Shooters Bar and Restaurant at the intersection of Hwy 39 and 54, next to the Shell Station.  Contact: Steve Miller 715-572-1845

Wausau Prospectors – meets the 1^st Saturday of the month at 11:00 am at the Village Town Hall in Brokaw Wisconsin. Address is: 218 2^nd St., Brokaw, WI. Take US 51 north of Wausau and take exit 197. Then go east on county road WW. At the 4 way stop in Brokaw take a right. You are there (just past the Credit Union).  Contact:  Kurt Bublitz 715-340-2831 or e-mail lizzy101@charter.net

Wisconsin Michigan Prospectors.GPAA Chapter – holds their meetings on the 3^rd Saturday of every month at 11:00 am, at meeting location for the next few months at Newinghams Supper Club at 722 Main St. Wausaukee, WI 54177. Contact Ron Smith.  

MAY THERE BE GOLD IN EVERY PAN !!!!