NUPA NUGGETS

Volume XXI, Issue 5 May 2012

May 22nd Meeting

President:
Sandy Patterson 801-393-2132

The May 22nd meeting is a working session with two concurrent activities. Donale Richan will conduct a wire wrapping session. The club is furnishing the wire. Cabochons will be available for purchase at a very reasonable price if you do not bring your own. Tools used include:

1st Vice President:

Mike Kozlowski

2nd Vice President:

David Linton

Treasurer:
Tom Garfield

Secretary:
Sheri Gaddis

Chain nose pliers Flush cutters Round nose pliers Pin vise

Parliamentarian:
Dave DeHeer

Claims Director:
Lonnie Fausett

Example of a wire wrapped cabochon

If you have any of these tools please bring them to the meeting.

Members at Large:
Mike John Kim Patterson Donale Richan Leo Richan Bob Shriber Hal Berry Alan Meyer

Cody Patterson will show and let you practice dowsing (also called divining, doodlebugging and water witching). Cody may just turn you into a believer! The Discovery Channel filmed the crew of the Christine Rose dowsing for gold. The short video can be seen at this link:
http://dsc.discovery.com/show-news/dousing-for-gold-on-the-bering-sea.html

Newsletter Editor:
Carolyn Durga 801-479-7247 cardurga@msn.com

Gold: $1557.60 Silver: $28.18

From www.kitco.com as of May 14, 2012

N.U.P.A. website at: www.nupainc.org or http://nupagold.blogspot.com

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May 2012 How about this weather? As of today, while I am writing this, it is beautiful outside. I sure hope it stays that way. I hope you all have your prospecting gear in shape and ready to go. Now if we could just get the price of fuel to drop, it will be a good summer. Thanks to everyone who helped with the Road Clean-up. We had a good turnout, and that makes the job go much faster and leaves more time for eating. Thank you to everyone who has signed up to help at the upcoming GPAA show. I hope it will be a success. I would like to extend a special thanks to Kim, my husband. He has spent a good amount of time making bags of gold bearing sand and insuring that every bag has the same amount of gold in it. It is a time consuming process and I really appreciate his doing it. Be sure to attend Mays meeting and learn how to do wire wrapping and/or a little bit on dowsing. I hope there will be something for everyone. The Spring Fling is coming up also. Please help make this a success. Last year we had 18 members show up and it was very disappointing. I truly hope the turnout is much, much better this year. Watch for upcoming interviews in the newsletter. This should be interesting. Happy prospecting!!

Sandy
Spring Fling Saturday, May 26, 2012 Shady Lane Park 600 W & (about) 3000 N Pleasant View The club is providing hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks. Please bring a side dish (dessert, chips & dip, salad, etc.) to share. If you have not signed up and cant attend the next meeting, but you WILL come to the picnic please e-mail cardurga@msn.com or call 801-4797247 by Wednesday, May 23rd and let us know how many to add to the list

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How to Mine and Prospect for Placer Gold

By J.M. West (Continued from last month)
Dip-Box
The dip-box is useful where water is scarce and where an ordinary sluice cannot be used because of the terrain. It is portable and will handle about the same quantity of material as the rocker. Construction is relatively simple. The box has a bottom of 1- by 12-inch lumber to which are nailed 1- by 6-inch sides and an end that serves as the back or head. At the other end is nailed a piece approximately 1 inch high. The bottom of the box is covered with burlap, canvas, or thin carpet to catch the gold, and over this, beginning 1 foot below the back end of the box, is laid a 1- by 3-foot strip of heavy wire screen of about 1/4-inch mesh. The fabric and screen are held in place by cleats along the sides of the box. Overall length may be 6 to 8 feet, although nearly all gold will probably collect in the first 3 feet. The box is placed so the back is about waist high; the other end is 1/2 to 1 foot lower. Material is simply dumped or shoveled into the upper end and washed by pouring water over it from a dipper, bucket, hose, or pipe until it passes through the box. The water should not be poured so hard that it washes the gold away. Larger stones (after being washed) are thrown out by hand, or a screen box can be added to separate them. Riffles may be added to the lower section of the box if it is believed gold is being lost.

Long Tom
A long tom usually has a greater capacity than a rocker and does not require the labor of rocking. It consists essentially of a short receiving launder, an open washing box 6 to 12 feet long with the lower end a perforated plate or a screen set at an angle, and a short sluice with riffles. The component boxes are set on slopes ranging from 1 to 1-1/2 inches per foot. The drop between boxes aids in breaking up lumps of clay and freeing the contained gold. A good supply of running water is required to operate a long tom successfully. The water is introduced into the receiving box with the gravel, and both pass into the washing box. The sand and water pass through the screen's 1/2-inch openings and into the sluice. The oversize material is forked out. The gold is caught by the riffles. The riffle concentrates are removed and cleaned in a pan. Quicksilver may be used in the riffles if the gravel contains much fine gold. The quantity of gravel that can be treated per day will vary with the nature of the gravel, the water supply, and the number of men employed to shovel stones into the tom and then fork them out. For example, two men, one shoveling into the tom and one working on it, might wash 6 cubic yards of ordinary gravel, or 3 to 4 cubic yards of cemented gravel, in 10 hours. A tom may be operated by four men--two shoveling in, one forking out stones, and one shoveling fine tailings away. Where running water and a grade are available, a simple sluice is generally as effective as the long tom and requires less labor.

More next month!

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Door Prize & Raffle Winners

Eddie Dickerson
Tweezer/vial

Testing Gold Density

The density of pure 24K gold is about 19.3 g/ml, which is much higher than most other metals. As a rule of thumb, the higher the density, the purer the gold.

Emergency fire starter Magnetic parts holder 6 in 1 screwdriver Gold magnet Browning knife Alaska gold in vial

Dave Mathews Ryan Larkin

Weigh your piece of gold. You will need the weight in grams. Fill a vial, that has millimeter markings on the side, with water. It doesnt matter how much water you use as long as you dont fill the vial to the top as the water level will rise once you immerse the gold. Note the exact amount of the water level Place your gold in the vial. Take note of the new water level and calculate the difference between those two numbers in milliliters. Density = mass/volume displacement.

Glen Gaddis Paul Silcox

Bruce Smith Bob Shriber Hal Berry

Gold pan

Justin Issacsontiny gold Clair Mackey.2 gram gold Paul Silcox4/10 gram gold
Just as a reminder, winners of the door prizes (white tickets) are asked to bring refreshments for May 22nd Meeting. The treasurer will gladly reimburse you for this expense if you give him your receipt.

Sample calculation: Your gold item weighs 38 g and it displaces 2 milliliters of water. Using the formula of [mass (38 g)]/[volume displacement (2 ml)], divide 38 by 2. Your result would be 19 g/ml, which is very close to the density of gold (19.3 g/ml) Different gold purity will have a different g/ml ratio:

Treasurers Report:
Checking: $2336.09 Savings: $5675.11

14K 12.9 to 14.6 g/ml 18K yellow 15.2 to 15.9 g/ml 18K white 14.7 to 16.9 g/ml 22K 17.7 to 17.8 g/ml

Utah dredge permits are available for online filing at: http://www.waterrights.utah.gov/streamdb/rds/default.asp Idaho dredge permits are available at: http://www.idwr.idaho.gov/RulesStatutesForms/StreamChannel/ DF/2012_Stream_Channel_Alteration_by_Recreational_Mining_Instructions_Final.pdf

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The Cost of Advertising

Do you have a business youd like to see advertised in the newsletter? Well heres the breakdown the cost. Just let the newsletter editor have the information.

Ad Size 3 Months 6 Months 12 Months 1/4 page $3.00 $5.50 $10.00 1/2 page $4.50 $8.00 $15.00 Full Page Business Ad for 1 month $8.00

Items For Sale

Expanded metal, punch plate and woven wire. If youre building a new sluice or renovating a old one and need classification material, call me. I have a lot of different sizes and shapes and may have just what youre looking for without buying a full sheet or paying a cut charge. Kim 801 393-2132

The club is looking for a painter for the clubs trailer. Do you know of someone or can do it yourself? We have the design, we just need someone who is willing to paint it. This is great advertisement for the club! Please contact our President (Sandy not Obama!)

HELP?

Free ad for club members!

To post your items in the newsletter, e-mail your ad to:

cardurga@msn.com

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Upcoming Outings and Events: Mark Them On Your Calendar!

May 22 General Meeting...Wire wrapping Class This will be a hands-on class. Dowsing class being held outside at the same time. May 26thSpring Fling 11:30??? Shady Lane Park in Pleasant View. The Spring Fling is a prospectors swap meet and B.S session. The club furnishes hamburgers and hot dogs and members are asked to bring a salad, desert, chips, etc. Bring your kids, grandkids, friends, and neighbors, anyone you want. Just let us know how many are attending. June 12...Board of Directors Meeting @ Ogden Hinckley Airport Terminal Building at 7:00 pm. June 26thGeneral Meeting...Claims Review We will review all current claims, member recent experiences, access and camping information, etc. This will be a good time to take notes. If you have been to any claims please be prepared to share your experiences. July 10...Board of Directors Meeting @ Ogden Hinckley Airport Terminal Building at 7:00 pm. Approx. November 10...Turkey Shoot Approx. Dec. 15...Christmas Party
Be sure you come to the meetings and tell us what youd like to do and where you would like to go!

Meet Members of NUPA

Sandy Patterson worked her way up from Secretary to her current position as President. Sandy and her husband, Kim, joined NUPA about 10 years ago while attending a GPAA show. Sandy has always been interested in prospecting. When not digging for gold Sandy is digging in her garden so as she puts it all my hobbies involve digging in dirt. The biggest nugget Sandy has found (fingernail size) was during 3 weeks in Alaska prospecting on the beach. Her favorite claims are Phifer Creek and Nupa 5 in Idaho. Dave DeHeer is one of the original founding members and the club Parliamentarian. Dave and Curt & Gae Dayton decided in 1992 to form a club with an interest in prospecting, gems and minerals. They advertised their intentions in the local newspaper and held their first meeting where approximately 300 people showed up. The club has been in together since. If you get a chance to visit with Dave at a meeting or outing he is likely to have some great stories to share.

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