Hooked on Gold Gazette 7/25/08

A peaceful spot on a private claim somewhere in the Colorado High Country

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $928.40
· Spot price last week: $954.60
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Calendar of Events

JULY

4th - Fourth of July
9th GPOC Regular Meeting
26th – 27th Burro Days – Fairplay 1st leg of the burro trifecta

AUGUST

1st – 3rd - COLORADO STATE GOLD PANNING CHAMPIONSHIPS Breckenridge, Co.
2nd – 3rd – Boom Days – Leadville 2nd leg of the burro trifecta
9th – 10th Gold Rush Days in Buena Vista 3rd leg of the burro trifecta
13th GPOC Regular Meeting

SEPTEMBER

· 1st - LABOR DAY
· 10th – GPOC General Meeting
· 12th – 14th Denver Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Panning Demo with GPOC
· 30th – Last Day for Motorized Equipment on the Arkansas River in Colorado
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NEWS

Newsletter is late today because I had better things to do………like picking up my grandsons for a week stay.

As many of you read yesterday, the Gold‘ n’Store is being reworked. The page was too large and crashed the end of June. The new format will be of pictures with item names and links to the description pages. Hopefully this will keep the page size small enough to load properly. If not, I will have to split it up further. In any case, it will take some time to rework and find a format that we can live with. You can view the new format from the home page. All other links to it are dead as the original page was deleted this week.

I will discontinue the streamflow guide for this season as most rivers are where they will be for the rafting season, but you can look at it yourself as I will keep the link at the bottom. If it isn’t live, copy and paste it into your browser. Sometimes blogger doesn’t allow links for some unknown reason. The Arkansas is still a little high at 1400 cfs, but it will continue to go down the next few weeks, and will begin its’ big drop the middle of August when rafting season is over. I hear that the rafting was great this year, although the numbers launch was not used much with the river so high. GOOD news for gold dredgers, though, who have been watching the river stay above safe levels most of the summer. Even those that dive are not in the water much. We hear that the Elephant Rock area is beginning to show some promising gold catching bars as the water levels drop. We also hear that temperatures in Alaska this year are well below normal. Must be global warming.

Fairplay Burro Days will be this weekend, and GPOC will have their panning troughs out for the public to pan in and get a lesson or two from a few people who know a little about it. Colorado Gold Panning Championships are coming up August 1-3 in Breckenridge, too, so you have a couple of weekends to catch a prospecting show while you are out and about. Oh, Boom Days are the same weekend, and then Gold Rush Days in Buena Vista will be the following weekend. Gee, I guess that’s three weekends with prospecting shows. The Cotin Tail Gem and Mineral Show will also be at the Buena Vista Fairgrounds during Gold Rush Days. Lots to do before the river goes down!

Cache Creek is getting plenty of action this year, with probably 3 times as many people visiting than last year, and many things will be changing. Stay tuned to HookedonGold, as we bring you those changes as they occur. We will be in Breckenridge next Friday for the championships, and then at camp for a couple more weeks, so your newsletter will be suspended until August 22nd. Watch for blog postings until then.

http://stream-flow.allaboutrivers.com/Colorado/river_flow-sCO.html

Google had begun running third party ads and is requiring adsense sites to include information about this change on their websites. You can read about this on our Privacy Policy page.

World Open Panning website has this year’s world wide panning competitions listed and they add more all the time. A great site to visit: http://www.worldopenpanning.homestead.com/ .

Until next week……
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If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now opened TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until October 1st.
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Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau
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Gold n Store @ hookedongold

I have several more posts to make about our last trip, but the past few days I have had to turn my attention to the Gold n Store page. The size of the page developed a fatal error and crashed shortly before we went on vacation. Sadly, the page has not been available since then, nor the links to it.

I am putting the page back together with smaller icon pictures and a very short description with the pictures linking to the long description pages. This is going to take some time as the last "fix" to the website omitted several pages that will have to be reworked, as well as duplicating a bunch of others. The site is getting too big even for my tech to handle, sometimes. I have published the first page and it is only available from the home page right now, until I get the bugs worked out. Some pictures do not show, which is a mystery since they were in the original images file. Oh, well. I have some work to do before we leave again, so hang in there with me while I get it all back up and running.

You will find four new Auction pages under the Auctions menu link. It will take you to a page with gold nuggets for auction on it, (At least that's what the search term is for) with three more links at the top of the page to the other three auctions. The page links will tell you what you will find in the auction, and you can also search for anything else on auction in the search box. Have fun!

HookedonGold Gazette 7/18/08

Miners Exchange at St. Elmo last week

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $954.60
· Spot price last week:
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Calendar of Events

JULY
4th - Fourth of July
9th GPOC Regular Meeting
26th – 27th Burro Days – Fairplay 1st leg of the burro trifecta

AUGUST
1st – 3rd - COLORADO STATE GOLD PANNING CHAMPIONSHIPS Breckenridge, Co.
2nd – 3rd – Boom Days – Leadville 2nd leg of the burro trifecta
9th – 10th Gold Rush Days in Buena Vista 3rd leg of the burro trifecta
13th GPOC Regular Meeting

SEPTEMBER
· 1st - LABOR DAY
· 10th – GPOC General Meeting
· 12th – 14th Denver Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Panning Demo with GPOC
· 30th – Last Day for Motorized Equipment on the Arkansas River in Colorado
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NEWS

Miss us? Well, we sure had a ball running around for the two weeks we were gone. We have been so far away from an internet connection that we were only able to connect up twice while we were away. Since then, I have been blogging about every other day. There is a lot more to tell in the next couple of weeks before we are off again for 17 days, beginning with the Colorado State Gold Panning Championships.

First off, if you haven’t read the blog posted before the newsletter, go there next and read it. It concerns Cache Creek and our efforts to find the person or persons who were reportedly running people off with a gun this past week. If you have information you can contact us at info@hookedongold.com or by replying to the blog which will be screened for content before it will be published. If you do not wish the post to be published, you may say so in your post and we will not publish the post.

BLM representatives were in the Cache Creek area this past week and have made further recommendations for the area. GPOC will be working with them to insure this area stays open for prospectors. The biggest concerns were undermining of trees and safety. “Coyote” holes are being dug into walls with 3 feet or more of rock overhang. This is extremely dangerous. Another concern is how to monitor how long a highbanker is there and the camping going on in the parking lot. When you camp in the day use parking lot there is little space for parking. There are ample camping spots near the lot, so please Do Not Camp in the Parking Lot. Kiosks, sign up sheets and portable restrooms are being worked on.

The previous open area north of Buena Vista, that we were all under the impression was unclaimable, is now all under claim and is no longer open to the public for prospecting. A real shame, too, as it was easy access for anyone with limited abilities to get to for some fun and some gold.

Hopefully I will find time this evening to post the streamflows. If not, you can find them on the link below. Flows are down statewide, but still high enough to watch out for. Rafters have begun rafting the numbers on the Arkansas….they can finally get under the bridge! Stay safe out there and FIND SOME GOLD!

http://stream-flow.allaboutrivers.com/Colorado/river_flow-sCO.html

Google had begun running third party ads and is requiring adsense sites to include information about this change on their websites. You can read about this on our Privacy Policy page.

World Open Panning website has this year’s world wide panning competitions listed and they add more all the time. A great site to visit: http://www.worldopenpanning.homestead.com/ .

Until next week……
___________________________________
If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now opened TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until October 1st.
_______________________________________
Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau
http://www.hookedongold.com/
http://www.hookedongold2.com/ Metal Detectors at Auction
info@hookedongold.com contact us
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Cache Creek Clash

I need your help. The BLM has a report from a prospector who drove all the way to the Pueblo office this week to report being run out of Cache Creek by someone with a gun. We need information on this incident, and the BLM is investigating.

People are not allowed to threaten each other with guns on public land. THIS IS NOT THE OLD WEST and everyone has the same rights to the digs as anyone else, regardless of who started or is working a hole. You cannot "run someone off" with a gun. It is a prosecutable offense. If any of you witnessed this event, answer this post with license plate number, color, make of vehicle, names of participants or anything else that can help us investigate this offense. The BLM will be onsite this week to talk to anyone in the area and to report the incident to the police. We simply cannot have this happening! While it is not illegal for you to carry a gun on public land, IT IS ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO THREATEN ANYONE WITH IT! Please help us with any information you have, or you stand a very good chance of losing this area for prospecting.

Elephant Rock placers

Buena Vista and Elephant Rock. New claims in the area have been verified as valid with the proper exception clause GPOC was unaware of. All of the area below the GPOC claims has been claimed and is no longer available to the public, so be advised that you may not propsect in there any longer without permission from the claim holders. That's right folks. We have lost another public area. There are some roads that these claim owners have closed and it is being investigated by the BLM, as they are not allowed to close or deny public access to the properties to anyone who is not prospecting. Locals use some of these areas for camping and picnicing, and they must be allowed to access them as before.

Good Prospecting to You

Home with GOLD!

Two Weeks! Wow! Did that go by fast. Yes, we found gold, but it wasn't easy and we worked really hard for what we found. Cache Creek is packed with people this year, and the creek is still running twice the water it did last year. As run off winds down, I would imagine we will be back closer to the levels we had last year.

Got to run some dirt from a friends claim to find some mighty pretty yellow gold. Pictures will get posted this next week as they get downloaded, along with some of our "adventures". We see that gold finished this past week up aqt $964.60, so everyone should be happy, right? Only a little over two weeks until the Colorado State Gold Panning Championships in Breckenridge, August 1st through the 3rd. Y'all come. Spend a day in Breckenridge, and then one in Leadville for "Boom Days".

Good Prospcting to You.