Gold Fever

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.

As I read all the outings on the list I don't know how I will be able to make them all. Work has been mandating me every chance they get, even with me volunteering to work whenever I don't have a meeting or outing, let alone a family thing! I also want to go back to Roaring Camp with Wayne this year! I'm burned out already the year hasn't even started. And I don't know when we will be able to squeeze in a detecting outing maybe April but that depends on the weather or August. I’m pretty sure if I go to California I won't be able to go to Athens.

I hope to see you all at the Christmas party on the 21^st. See you at the meetings Mike Fait President

- January 18, 2020 – Tomah Club Meeting - reading a river for gold - Kurt Bublitz and Mick Whalen

- May 16-17, 2020 - GPAA gold show Milwaukee Wisconsin at the state park fairgrounds

- July 24,25,26,2020 - Midstate metal detectors club 24th annual open hunt Nekoosa

- Sept 18,19,20, 2020 - Wausau outing to Nugget Lake - this is Tomah’s weekend so we will join them (individual dig for yourself)

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:

Christmas gift exchange was talked about. If you come to the meeting in December and bring a gift you will receive a gift in return. The gifts should be new in the $10-15$ range, and relate to prospecting, or camping!

Next year’s outings were discussed. The Wausau chapter has all their outing and meeting topics for next year planed out. A list of dates will follow.

Kurt also brought information from the Indiana Gold Prospectors Alaska trip to Akau Resort. Prices are for a group of twenty $1600 a week per person. You are responsible for your airfare. If you are interested in this trip call Jeffery Behnke at 847-858-2526. Jeff is the president of the Indiana gold prospectors or call Thomas Fowlkes at 317-946-0155 Thomas is the state director for Indiana.

Mick Whalen talked to the group on improving mating to capture fine gold. You can see this mat making on you tub by Allen Robinson. Mike has made some molds with matting in them. He then uses 100% silicon- it must be clear. You also need a mix of Dawn dish soap and water in a 25/75 soap to water ratio. First squeeze the silicon onto a flat board, if you try to squeeze it directly into the mixture you will get worm like deposits. Put the pile of silicon into the soap/water solution for 2 and 1/2 minutes to thicken up the caulk. Pre spray your mold before putting silicone on so it comes off easier when hard. Smear silicone into the mold use the tube to roll it flat on the backside and get the air bubbles out. Wait at least half a hr. to harden before removing. You now have your very own silicone mat it is supposed to be very efficient at separating the gold from the black sand. Do not breathe in the fumes!

The GPAA is giving away 4 bags of concentrates a week until the end of the year - enter by liking there Facebook page and following the directions

Donations from Larry Bender, Lisa Fait, Merlin Meyer, Barb Bublitz, Richard Niemyjski,Jeff Hastings, and Diane Kollins, sorry if I probably missed anyone.

I got your email from the Gold Prospecting Ass. She told me you may have members that might be interested in some of my mining scales I have for sale. I can send pictures via cell phone but don't know how to send them on a pc, sorry. These scales are from Ca from when I used to mine years ago and in great shape. The larger ones are worth 300-375 and not sure yet about the smaller ones. I'm listing these for my friend and if you have any questions you can call him at 920-284-0154 or his shop at 715-258-8282 He lives in Waupaca, Wi Thanks for your consideration. Le Roy

The 5 Biggest Gold Nuggets ever found by humans. With the second-largest gold nugget finding recently in Australia (2018).

Learn about what percentage of gold purity the typical gold nugget is depending on the location it is found. As well, what the troy ounce gold yield was for each of the biggest gold nuggets ever found. To begin, let us define what a Gold Nugget is.

Gold Nugget - (n) a naturally occurring piece of native high-density gold.

Gold nuggets often get recovered by placer mining, but they also get found in residual deposits where the gold-bearing veins or lodes get weathered. Gold nuggets also get discovered in the tailings piles of previous mining operations, especially those left by gold mining dredges.

Gold nuggets typically have a 21K to 22K gold purity (88% to 92% gold by mass weight).

Historically gold nuggets found in Australia are often 23K or higher purity. Alaskan gold nuggets are usually at the lower end of the gold nugget purity spectrum.

A gold nugget’s fineness or purity can be roughly assessed by a gold nugget’s color. The darker and more vibrant an orange-yellow coloring a gold nugget has the higher percentage the gold content yield it has typically.

Gold nuggets high in silver content constitute the alloy electrum, which is the gold-silver mixed composition of the first gold coins struck and used in Ancient Lydia around 600 B.C.

Below we count down the 5 Biggest Gold Nuggets ever recorded with the second-largest find recently occurring only months ago in Australia

RANK	GOLD NUGGET NAME	LOCATION FOUND	YEAR FOUND	GOLD TROY OUNCE YIELD
5th Largest	Pepita Canaa	Para, Brazil	1983	1,683 troy ounces of gold
4th Largest	Welcome Nugget	Ballarat, Australia	1858	2,196 troy ounces gold
3rd Largest	Welcome Stranger	Victoria, Australia	1869	2,284 troy ounces gold
2nd Largest	RNC Minerals’ recent gold find	Kambalda East, Australia	2018	2,300 troy ounces gold*
Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found	Holtermann Nugget	New South Wales, Australia	1872	3,000 troy ounces gold

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

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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.