Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter – June 2019

Welcome

Welcome to the 2019 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

 I put some of the information in about Muskallunge in this issue so you could get a start on reserving a site. The weather is always cool by the lake so this is a way to beat the heat in July. I can't look up all the hotels and campgrounds for you but with the internet it is easy to find all kinds of places to stay.

 I hope to see you all at our Nugget Lake outing in June. This is the best place to prospect in Wisconsin and you don't have to worry about someone telling you that you can't dig there! Just be sure to fill in you holes and no digging in the banks.

 I hope I finally have my truck fixed it has been giving me trouble all spring. It  won't start for long periods of time , changed the fuel pump twice now  my mechanic has cleaned a ground wire and hopes that did the trick, time will tell. The car I drive to the meetings has a broken front bar. He is looking for a used one if he can find it I'll be out another grand. Hope you all are having better luck.

                                                                     See you in the creeks Mike Fait

Upcoming Events

Planned Outings:

-       June 7-8-9, 2019 -  Upper Michigan outing Wausau chapter to Ontonagon for copper ,Yooperlites and maybe gold

-       June 15, 2019 - Nugget Lake outing –Tomah

-       July 13, 2019 -  weekend Muskellunge Lake Michigan outing - Tomah   gold in black sand, agates, fossils and Yooperlits

-       July 26-27-28, 2019 -  Midstate metal detectors club 23rd annual open hunt

-       August 9-10-11, 2019 - Thermal City North Carolina outing - Wausau – Tomah

-       Sept 6-7-8, 2019 -  Snyder county Park outing – Wausau

-       September 21, 2019 -  Nugget Lake group dig -Tomah

Tomah Club Meeting - Town of LaGrange Town Hall. 22731 Flint Ave. Tomah WI. 54660 - 1.8 miles west of the 12/21 Hwy intersection in Tomah. – At 1:00 pm on the following dates, speakers will be announced as they are scheduled:

-       October 19, 2019

-       September 23,2019

Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes May, 2019

Club Business:                                                                                                                                                              

    Just a note to touch base with the Club members. We had 5 people that braved the cold, rainy weather on Saturday for the metal detecting outing at Veterans Memorial Park in West Salem. Jack, John, Rich, myself and my partner in crime Misti. It was definitely cold and we lucked out to only have a few sprinkles around 10 o clock. Richard found a 1948 dime and 1935 dime and some other clad coins and fishing lure parts. Jack and John found clad coins also and so did I and Misti. It was her first time out with professional relic hunters, lol. She said she enjoys digging in the dirt and pinpointing targets together. The soil was very nice digging. We hung it up around 12:30 and went to get lunch and went rummage saleing to finish off the day. Hopefully we will see you at Nugget Lake on the 15th of June.   No raffle were held.

                                                                      Sincerely Jeff Hastings

 The Nugget Lake outing is on June 15. Bring a dish to pass, it is $5.00 a carload to enter the park. We will have a pavilion rented down by the lake for lunch. We will be eating around noon, and the club will be cooking brats, hotdogs and hamburgers. We also supply soda and water, followed by a short meeting and raffles, then to the creek. It is 2 hrs. and 16 minutes from Marshfield to Nugget Lake County Park. The address is N4351 county road HH, Plum City WI. 54761. The phone number for the park is 715-639-5611. Campsites fill up fast as it is father’s day weekend minimum two days on weekends $22 per day plus $6 registration fee if you use a credit card over the phone. No motorized equipment allowed. Sluices, pans, and rocker boxes are OK. The gold is mostly flower size but plentiful.

 The July outing is coming on the 13 at Muskellunge park in Michigan. The park might not have any sites left for camping as they have two thirds shut down for electrical upgrades. I have a site for the week but have to move mid-week to be able to stay for the whole week! There is gold in the black sands on the beach, how much I can tell you as it changes each year and after each storm! There are other campgrounds in the area if you do a google search you can find them, but they are most likely off a gravel or sand road. If you come up thru Newberry you will be on blacktop the whole way. Phone # for Muskellunge Lake is 906-658-3338.

 Gold Price on 05/30/19 was $1,288.30               Silver Price on 05/30/19 was $14.51

Respectfully submitted by Diane North – Newsletter Editor

Two news articles out of Australia

Australian family finds $24G gold nugget on family walk with dog named Lucky

An Australian family experienced a stroke of good fortune when they found a gold nugget — valued at tens of thousands of dollars — while they were walking their dog on Sunday.

The family's father and two daughters, who asked to remain anonymous, were out with their dog, coincidentally named "Lucky," when they came across the pricey nugget.

I actually walked right past it but my daughter pretty much kicked it as she was walking," the father told the Bendigo Advertiser. "She then goes, 'Dad, is this gold?' I said, 'I think it might be.'"

The father said they weighed the nugget at a nearby supermarket, as they couldn't find anywhere to properly weight it. The gold nugget weighed 20 ounces, or 1.25 pounds — a value the family claims could be worth upwards of $24,000 USD.

"To sell it as a nugget whole, it's probably worth a little bit more than that," he told the news outlet. "We've come on some tough times so it's really good because we've been struggling financially. It couldn't be better timing really."

The family's "Lucky" find was only the latest time an Australian has been revealed to have discovered a gold nugget.

In September, a retired man found a roughly seven-pound gold nugget worth an estimated $80,000 in the northern Goldfields of Western Australia. He had been searching the area with a metal detector for years, and ultimately took him two hours to dig the nugget out of the ground.

Australian finds A $100,000 gold nugget using metal detector

An Australian man has unearthed a 1.4kg (49oz) gold nugget with a metal detector while wandering Western Australia's gold fields, say locals.

A shop in Kalgoorlie shared pictures of the rock online, estimated to be worth A$100,000 (£54,000; $69,000).

The unidentified man was an experienced local hobbyist, shop owner Matt Cook, told the BBC.

Finds of this scale by prospectors are known to happen a few times a year, experts say.

About three-quarters of the gold mined in Australia is produced in and around the Kalgoorlie region.

Mr Cook, who owns a shop selling supplies to gold prospectors, said the man detected the piece on some saltbush flats, about 45cm (18 inches) below the surface.

"He walked into my shop and showed me the nugget in his hand with a big smile on my face," Mr Cook told the BBC.

"It just a bit bigger than a packet of smokes, and the density of it was incredible, so heavy."

Officers – elected for 2019.

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

The 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.