Gold Fever !!!
November Newsletter
Gold Fever !!!
Tomah
Wisconsin GPAA Chapter November, 2013
Welcome
Welcome to the 2013 GOLD FEVER Newsletter.
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.
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 :
www.huntforgems.com/gpaatomahwi/
Presidents Message
I want to thank Wanda and Johann Riel for their talk last month and all that
they are doing for all of us with the DNR and the state legislature. I would
have the patients to deal with all the roadblock they keep running into or the
green movement uniformed that they have to talk to.
Well the time has come I had to move my panning tub inside. If I wasn't so busy
hunting I would have to pan in the house I have had Ice in my tub that didn't
melt all day.
Thank you for the vote of confidence and re-electing me the Presidency. I hope I
can serve you well.
See you all in November Mike Fait
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes October, 2013
Old Business:
The October meeting was held at the Town Hall at the Town of Lagrange on Route
#20 west of Tomah Wisconsin on October 18th.
26 Members attended the February meeting.
Wanda and Johann Riel (our State Lobbyists) spoke about all they are doing in
state including the state representation just what hobby mine is described.
They had a lot of work to do including finding where the laws/rules were
for Wisconsin. They determined that
recreational mining is falling through the cracks.
There really is no law/rules for recreational prospecting.
Each prospector in Wisconsin needs the knowledge to have the power to
stay out of trouble. Private
landowner laws are very important in Wisconsin and everyone needs to ask
permission to go on private land.
Tribal lands the suggestion is to just stay off of that land.
In Wisconsin prospecting needs to stay in the 10 sq. ft. area and only
use manual tools, rocker box, shoved. Sluice box, pan and/or classifiers.
News from the October Treasurer Magazine -
there was an article about the Wausau outing where Mike (our president) had to
remove snow to have an outing.
New Business:
Novembers meeting will be on the 3rd Saturday of November on the 16th
at 1:00 pm.
Guest speaker
Doug Moore a professor at UW Stevens Point will be our guest speaker for Nov.
16. He will be talking on Thunder eggs.
No that is not eggs laid during a thunder storm.
Come and learn just what Thunder eggs are and where they can be found.
Finds were:
Richard Niemyjski 1960 D dime, 4 wheat cents, 1933 Canadian cent, 15 Fair
tokens, 47 Memorial cents, and 16 clad quarters & dime.
Donations to the raffle were from:
Bev Bender, Capt. Bob Minshall, Diane North, Mike Fait, Valery Thompson,
Robert
Wysocky, Gary & Jeanne Morrison, Barb
Bublitz,
and Mike Flint. Everyone is
always so generous with their donations, with new and useful items that a lot of
you have donated. We thank all of
you.
Raffles:
50/50 raffle winner Richard Niemyjski - $34.50.
That is 2 months in a row!!!!!!
Gold raffle winners: Robert Wysocky gold nugget & Diane North Thermal City
paydirt.
Gold
Price on 10/31/13 was $1322.70 Silver
Price on 10/31/13 was $21.91
Respectfully submitted by Diane North
Secretary & Newsletter Editor
Earthquakes Turn Water into Gold
- - -
By Becky Oskin,
OurAmazingPlanet
Earthquakes have the Midas touch, a new study claims.
Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a
model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The
model provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz
seen in many of the world's gold deposits, said Dion Weatherley, a geophysicist
at the
University of
Queensland in Australia and lead author of the study.
When an earthquake strikes, it moves along a rupture in the ground a fracture
called a fault. Big faults can have many small fractures along their length,
connected by jogs that appear as rectangular voids.
Water often lubricates faults,
filling in fractures and jogs.
About
6 miles (10 kilometers) below the surface, under incredible temperatures and
pressures, the water carries high concentrations of carbon dioxide, silica and
economically attractive elements
like
gold.
Shake, rattle and gold
During
an earthquake, the fault jog suddenly opens wider. It's like pulling the lid off
a pressure cooker: The water inside the void instantly vaporizes, flashing to
steam and forcing silica, which forms the mineral quartz, and gold out of the
fluids and onto nearby surfaces, suggest Weatherley and co-author Richard
Henley, of the
Australian
National University
in Canberra.
While scientists have long suspected that sudden pressure drops could account
for the link between giant gold deposits and ancient faults, the study takes
this idea to the extreme, said Jamie Wilkinson, a geochemist at Imperial College
London in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study.
"To me, it seems pretty plausible. It's something that people would probably
want to model either experimentally or numerically in a bit more detail to see
if it would actually work," Wilkinson told OurAmazingPlanet.
Previously, scientists suspected fluids would effervesce, bubbling like an
opened soda bottle, during earthquakes or other pressure changes. This
would
line underground pockets with gold.
Others suggested minerals would simply accumulate
slowly over time.
Weatherley said the amount of gold left behind after an earthquake is tiny,
because underground fluids carry at most only one part per million of the
precious element. But an earthquake
zone like
New Zealand's Alpine Fault,
one of the world's fastest, could build a mineable
deposit in 100,000 years, he said.
Surprisingly, the quartz doesn't even have time to crystallize, the study
indicates. Instead, the mineral comes out of the fluid in the form of
nanoparticles, perhaps even making a gel-like substance on the fracture walls.
The quartz nanoparticles then crystallize over
time. [Gold
Quiz: From Nuggets to Flecks]
Even earthquakes smaller than magnitude 4.0, which may rattle nerves but rarely
cause damage, can trigger flash vaporization, the study finds.
"Given that small-magnitude earthquakes are exceptionally frequent in fault
systems, this process may be the primary driver for the formation of economic
gold deposits," Weatherley told OurAmazingPlanet.
The hills have gold
Quartz-linked gold has sourced some famous deposits, such as the placer gold
that sparked the 19th-century California and Klondike gold rushes. Both deposits
had eroded from quartz veins upstream.
Placer gold
consists of particles, flakes and nuggets mixed in with sand and
gravel
in stream and river beds. Prospectors traced the
gravels back to their sources, where hard-rock mining continues today.
But earthquakes aren't the only cataclysmic source of gold. Volcanoes and their
underground plumbing are just as prolific, if not more so, at producing the
precious metal. While Weatherley and Henley suggest that a similar process could
take place under volcanoes, Wilkinson, who
studies
volcano-linked gold,
said that's not the case.
"Beneath
volcanoes, most of the gold is not precipitated in faults that are active during
earthquakes," Wilkinson said. "It's a very different mechanism."
Understanding how gold forms helps companies prospect for new mines. "This new
knowledge on gold-deposit formation mechanisms may assist future gold
exploration efforts," Weatherley said.
In their quest for gold, humans have pulled more than 188,000 tons (171,000
metric tons) of the metal from the ground, exhausting easily accessed sources,
according to the World Gold Council, an industry group
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.
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 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
November 2, 2013 Wausau Prospector Meeting Cedar Creek Mall in Wausau
11:00 am
November 16,
2013 Tomah
Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm
December 7, 2013 Wausau Prospector Meeting Cedar Creek Mall in Wausau
11:00 am
December 21, 2013 -
Tomah
Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm Meeting and Christmas
Party.
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 B.S. on Main, 34 N Main St. Rice Lake,
Wi. Contact: Mike Wiersma
715-833-7603
MAY THERE BE GOLD IN EVERY PAN !!!!
