Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter – July 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 want to thank all the members that helped at the nugget lake outing, and make it a joy to be at. Thou I didn't get a lot of gold I got 180 micro spects from three days prospecting and still have dirt from the raffle bucket to run, If it only quits raining.

 As you know I have been having trouble with my truck not wanting to start. It ran every time at the outing. But on Tuesday night I went to my sisters to pick up some carpeting for a different sister. The truck wouldn't start when I was ready to go home. My sister got it started the next morning and brought it to me house. I drove it to work Thursday and it wouldn't start when I wanted to go home had to call Gayle to come and get me. It wouldn't start yet on Saturday after I work the morning, my mechanic picked it up in the afternoon and it started for him and has been starting for him ever since. I don't think it likes me. And I don't like it anymore either. I’m looking for a new truck. I was going to try one out Monday but guess what, it wouldn't start! It has been on the lot long enough for both batteries to die. It is a diesel Ford 3500 super max it looks real good only 84000 miles. After they charge the batteries I’m going to test drive it. Need a truck to get my camper to Muskellunge Lake. Time is getting short and I just got my driveway cemented now money is getting tight too. I will get to Muskellunge for the weekend outing even if I have to use my car and tent it only I wouldn't stay the whole week then. I’m sure I’ll have a truck by then thou!

  If I don't see you at muskellunge I hope some of you will make it to Thermal city in august for the Wausau outing. $50 a person to be part of the dig. I have a room at the super 8 in Marion. I Talked to Kim Mickleson last night she said that one is booked full, she is going to get one in Black Mountain. I’m working 6 days a week when im not at an outing, I really look forward to the outings!

                                               See you on the beach or in the creek Mike Fait

Upcoming Events

Planned Outings:

-       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

Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes June, 2019

Club Business:                                                                                                                                                              

   We had 20 members make it to the June outing at Nugget Lake County Park. The weather was cloudy but almost no rain, it was in the low 70s which made digging comfortable. We started off with a brat and hamburger fry. Thanks to Gary Morrison for cooking and Larry Bender helping with the raffles. Barb Bublitz won the 50/50 raffle.

Dave Ambrose and Cory Werner won nuggets Ricahrd Niemyjski won the concentrates bag. After a short meeting some of us headed for the creek, all we using either a pyramid pan or a flow pan. Everyone got some gold thou it was all small.

Donations: Larry Bender donated a nugget for the raffle and the brats for the meal. Jeff Hastings and Mike Fait also made donations to the raffle.

  The Midstate hunt was discussed at the meeting.   

 July 13 outing is at Muskellunge State park 29881 co rd. 407 Newberry Mi.49868 906-658-3338 Michigan relay center    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.

 Black sand on the beach has gold in it. It is very hard to separate out of the black sands. You can run a gold cube or battery operated sluce on the beach but you can't take water by pump directly from the lake, but can use buckets to fill your tubs for recirculation. When you are done you have to dump your water and sand back on the beach not into the lake. With the high water in the great lakes im no sure how much beach we will have to work with. There are also lots of rocks on the beach and everyone is looking for agates and fossils. Here is the web site for the park http://www.dnr.state.mi.us/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?id=424&type=SPRK

 Gold Price on 07/01/19 was $1,383.70              Silver Price on 75/01/19 was $15.11

Respectfully submitted by Diane North – Newsletter Editor

Web site for Midstate Annual Hunt Flyer   http://wausauprospectors.com/index_htm_files/23rd%20Midstate%20Annual%20Hunt%20Flyer%202019.pdf

 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.  

MAY THERE BE GOLD IN EVERY PAN !!!!