Gold Fever !!!
Tomah
Wisconsin GPAA Chapter April, 2014
Welcome
Welcome to the 2014 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.
The Tomah, Wisconsin GPAA Chapter
newsletter is your newsletter, please let me know what you would like to see in
it, we hope to bring you more information in the coming year.
I hope you enjoy the information and articles included in this
newsletter. You can receive this
Newsletter by mail, by either attended a meeting, or sent a book of stamps for
postage.
We are also always looking for
speakers, we need to help out our great president (Mike Fait).
He has been putting the programs together with very little help.
If you have taken a trip or just have a story about somewhere, we would
like to hear about it. You do NOT
need to be an expert speaker; everyone likes to hear about what other members
are doing.
Do not forget the Newsletter and
pictures can always be found at:
Presidents Message
Thank you Kurt for
showing us how to use the black magic clean up sluice. Most of the members had
never seen one before or how they worked.
I had a wonderful time
at the Greenbush gold and treasure show March 22-23. Lots of curious people came
by the booth. They looked at our photo displays.
Some even knew where some of my pictures were taken. Some from
Murfreesboro Diamond mines, Thermal city, and the UP brought up conversations
with others who had been to the same places. If I didn't get them with the photo
books I more than likely got them with my mineral collections. Even the mineral
and gem dealers like my collection. I have one area where I put a seven pound
chunk of float copper, and galena sample next to some coal and pumice for weight
comparisons. Little kids real like this on as I let them handle the samples.
This was the last year
the gold show will be in Sheboygan Falls as they are remolding the building into
office spaces. Where the next show will be is still up in the air.
Douglas Sasse had heart surgery last month we hope he makes a fast recovery.
We
will be seeing water soon Mike Fait
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA
Chapter Minutes March, 2014
Old Business:
The March meeting was held at the Town Hall at the Town of Lagrange, 22731 Flint
Ave. on Route #21 west of Tomah Wisconsin on March 15th.
28 members and guests attended the March
meeting.
We are still looking for a Librarian. Let Mike know if you would like to
volunteer or we won't have one.
The latest TV gold shows were discussed.
Kurt Bublitz show his Black Magic recovery system, explained about the need to
classify your material down to 30 mesh or smaller for good recovery and then ran
some concentrates thru his machine so we could see how it preformed. Very fast
work with real fine gold.
Steve Miller got his English trip finds back. He brought them to the meeting to
show he might bring them back again this fall to explain what they all were so
everyone can see them.
Ted Ehrhardt brought some interesting printouts from some web sites he had been
reading. The sites are goldrushnuggets.com he had an article on fake gold
nuggets. Also desert-gold-diggers.org had charts for how much each pennyweight
of gold was in ounces.
New
Business:
Aprils meeting will be on the 3rd Saturday of April on the 19th
at 1:00 pm. Please bring a dish to pass
for lunch.
Guest speaker
Mike Fait will be showing his mineral collection that he takes to
all the gold shows.
Donations to the raffle were from:
Dave and Bev Bender, Capt'n Bob Minshall, Richard Niemyjski, Larry Bender, Dan
Koehler, Diane Kollins, Barb Bublitz and Val Thompson, hope
I didn't miss anyone.
Raffles:
50/50 raffle winner
John Schwingle
Gold raffle
winners: Barb Bublirtz nugget, and jar of coins;
Richard Niemyjski gem/gold bag
Gold
Price on 3/30/14 was $1,249.90
Silver Price on 3/30/14
was $19.82
Respectfully submitted by Diane North
Newsletter Editor
Iowa
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Gold Sites
There are many locations within Iowa where gold
can be found. In general, the gold in Iowa is relatively fine (flour
gold) compared to other states, but it does exist none the less! Gold is
present from glacially deposited material that covers much of the state.
It is supposedly from Minnesota and Canada, with the glaciers eroding
those gold rich rocks, mixing them with other rocks and depositing them
in Iowa. The largest concentrations are along rivers and streams that
cut through these glacial deposits. Focus on deposits of "black sand"
and especially in areas of dark red, iron oxidized and hematite rich
areas above creek banks...these will typically always provide the
richest returns with occasional flakes! (I'm still hunting for a
nugget...I'm sure some are there...somewhere!) Here are some locations
gold has been reported:
Adel: Flour gold can be found
along the Racoon River and tributaries near Adel in Dallas County. (NTO
can confirm this, having found fine glacial gold in nearby tributaries.)
Bush Creek & the Volga River:
Fayette and Clayton Counties.
Des Moines River:
Near Pella, Douds and Farmington. Fine gold has been found near the
Pella-Harvey bridge just North of Harvey. The fine gold is usually found
in the sand layer in the river bank.
Douds: Check local bodies of
water, rivers and streams. Especially the Des Moines River.
Eldora: Gold was reportedly
found 7 miles north of the town along the Iowa River and also south of
town. It is also the site of one of the few minor "gold rush" areas in
the state. READ THIS fine article.
Farmington: Check local bodies of
water, rivers and streams, especially the Des Moines River.
Fayette County:
Glacial deposits of gold can be found along the Volga river.
Hardin County: Gold was reported found
in this area around 1877 by old prospectors and there are also reports
that they buried their gold nuggets along the Iowa River.
Iowa River: In Hardin County around
Iowa Falls. Fine gold has been found about 2.5 miles Northwest of Le
Grand at the Three Bridges County Recreation area. The area has been on
the north side of the river, just west of the old 1880s bridge found in
the center of the park.
Little Sioux River:
Klondike in Lyon County (One of Iowa's only commercial gold mining
ventures).
Okoboji: Gold can be found in
the various Lakes in the area. (NTO can confirm this, having found some
very fine glacial gold on a shoreline.)
Otter Creek: Near West Union. In
1904, the Iowa Geological Survey Annual Report XV stated that $1-$1.50
worth of gold could be panned from Otter Creek by a patient washer in a
day. (Gold was around $20.50 an ounce at that time).
Skunk River: Some flake gold has
been found in the South Skunk River, Southwest of Newton and near
Highway 14.
Steamboat Rock:
Hardin County.
Wadena: 4 miles west of town
off of a gravel road.
Yellow Banks State Park:
Located near Altoona. Gold supposedly found nearby. |
Items for Sale:
Tomah Gold Club t-shirts
with Gold Club emblem and
created either with your personal name or without your name.
Contact Mike Fait if you are interested.
For Sale: Fisher 1220
metal detector with headphones and manual $300 call Ted Ehrhardt (608)985-7360
or (608)415-1661
Officers all officers were re-elected for 2014.
President Michael Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
Vice-President Gary
Morrison 715-316-2160
Secretary Jeanne
Morrison 715-316-2160
Newsletter Editor - Diane
North (dbnorth@centurytel.net) 608-635-7031
Treasure Gayle Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
Outing Chairman Richard
Niemyjski (richnski@frontiernet.net)
608-637-3295
Claims Director Richard
Niemyjski (richnski@frontiernet.net)
608-637-3295
State Director Mike
Flint (mwink12@excite.com)
608-372-0694
Upcoming Events
April 25, 26, & 27, 2014
Springtime in the Parrish Outing.(Wausau Outing)
May 3-4, 2014 - Heart of
Wisconsin Rock and Gem show Marshfield senior High School
May 17, 2014 -
Tomah
Club Meeting at Town of
LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm Speaker May 17 Dr.
William Cordua will talk on meteorites and wrongs
June 21, 2014 - Nugget
Lake County Park. Call for camping reservations 715-639-5611
July 18-20, 2014 - Upper
Michigan Copper and Rock hunting (Wausau Outing)
July 19, 2014 - Metal
Detecting - site to be determined (Tomah Outing)
July, 2014 - Dredging and
sluicing in Indiana (Greenbush Outing)
Sept 12-14, 2014 - Snider
Lake outing (Wausau Outing)
Sept, 26 28, 2014 - Fall
in Parrish (Dennis Laubenstein outing)
Wisconsin Area Clubs
Greenbush Wisconsin GPAA
Chapter holds their meetings on the 2nd Saturday of each month at
3:00 pm in the Greenbush Town Hall, N644 Sugarbush Rd, Greenbush Wi. Contact:
Ron Smith 920-207-4092
Midstate Metal Detecting
Club meets every 3rd 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 1st Saturday of the month at 11:00 am in the community room at
Cedar Creek Mall next to I-39 just north of Gander Mountain.
Take I-39 exit 185. Contact:
Kurt Bublitz 715-340-2831 or e-mail
lizzy101@charter.net
Wisconsin Northwoods
Adventures GPAA Chapter holds their meetings on the 2nd Saturday of
every month at 11:00 am, at Rice Lake Regional Airport
located west of Cameron and west of hwy53 on 19th St., Rice Lake, Wi.
Contact: Mike Wiersma 715-833-7603