HookedonGold Gazette 11/26/08

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $806.10 (Wednesday)
· Spot price last Gazette: $801.60
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Calendar of Events
NOVEMBER
· 2nd End of Daylight Savings Time
· 4th ELECTION DAY Get out and VOTE!
· 11th Veterans Day
· 12th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00 p.m.
· 27th THANKSGIVING
· 28th Black Friday or otherwise known as “Shop Til You Drop” day
DECEMBER
· 1st Cyber Monday Don’t forget goldnstore for your prospector gifts
· 10th GPOC General Meeting and Christmas Party don’t forget those toys for Toys for Tots!
· 21st Winter Solstice – Yeah, we start getting longer days tomorrow!!!!!
· 22nd Hanukkah begins
· 24th Christmas Eve
· 25th Christmas Day
· 26th Kwanzaa and Boxing Day
· 31st New Years Eve
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NEWS

Are you ready for some turkey? I know that we are. Thanksgiving will be quiet here since the families have all gotten together early, but we still plan on having an abbreviated feast complete with yams and turkey and pumpkin pie. I can smell it now, can you?


I am thinking about golden memories today of family and prospecting outings with friends. Finding that first piece of gold and the thrill of the mountains in general spur us on in the winter when all is dreary and cold. We have much to be thankful for here in the good ol’ USA. We may be in the midst of economic troubles, but we will bounce back……we always do. AND usually we end up better than we were before, So before you thinking we’re done, remember there is so much going on that isn’t on the economist’s radar yet, that you can’t count us out before we even hit the mat. Innovation is what we are about, and in times like these, the American people tighten their belts, and reeducate themselves into better jobs in companies that will propel us into the next 20 years of prosperity. We have our problems, but I’m bullish on America and Americans. We alone have the ability to decide our own futures. Change isn’t something that comes in an instant, but over time, so get out there and start doing something to make that change in your own life and situation. Pay down your debt and stop borrowing, take that class that could get you that better job, start a business you’ve been wanting to run, start cooking at home instead of going out (WAY healthier, less expensive, too, and it isn’t hard to do), drive less and walk more, take a foreign language course,


I was searching for images of cows this past week (Yeah, you all know about http://www.bellahealthsystems.com/ and who they are to me) and saw something interesting when I searched free (put whatever you are looking for here) images. Google kept giving me a reference at the top of the page with about four thumbnail images that when you click on it, you came up with a search page that listed every picture it could find with that tag on it. Not only that, but when you clicked on the image you were taken to the page where it was found on the website it was found on. If you search gold or gold prospecting you could search an awful lot of websites you might have a hard time finding for the search term you used in a natural search. Try it this weekend and see if you find some websites you have never seen before with your search terms. I was amazed!


Additional searches I found for you this week include an article on gold in Scotland
http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.2470017.0.0.php
An article on gold tipped Nanocrystals being developed for use in constructing computer chips
http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/9775/Gold-tipped_nanocrystals_developed_by_Hebrew_University_researchers.html
Your DIY links are below
Mega Black Sand Magnet
http://miningold.com/mega.html

Mini Highbanker
http://miningold.com/minibnk.html


Remember, you can get your prospecting needs HERE, Clearance HERE, and Monthly Specials HERE.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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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/ . If the links do not work, copy and paste them into your browser.

If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now closed TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until April 1st.
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Golden Holidays

Enjoy that Golden bird!

Thanksgiving week has crept up on me and I realized this morning that I did not tell you that a short Newsletter will be posted Wednesday with some interesting links for you to play with while you are resting from your shopping. I found a few interesting searches for gold prospecting and gold that will bring a ton of links you can easily follow to information you didn't know was there! I played with it myself for a whole morning.

Remember gold'n'store for those special gifts for prospectors. We have FREE shipping!

Blinkx Video: Amazing new cow technology: Bella Health Systems

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HookedonGold Gazette 11/21/08

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $801.60
· Spot price last Gazette: $742.30
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Calendar of Events
NOVEMBER
· 2nd End of Daylight Savings Time
· 4th ELECTION DAY Get out and VOTE!
· 11th Veterans Day
· 12th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00 p.m.
· 27th THANKSGIVING
· 28th Black Friday or otherwise known as “Shop Til You Drop” day
DECEMBER
· 1st Cyber Monday Don’t forget goldnstore for your prospector gifts
· 10th GPOC General Meeting and Christmas Party don’t forget those toys for Toys for Tots!
· 21st Winter Solstice – Yeah, we start getting longer days tomorrow!!!!!
· 22nd Hanukkah begins
· 24th Christmas Eve
· 25th Christmas Day
· 26th Kwanzaa and Boxing Day
· 31st New Years Eve
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NEWS

Things are still hopping at our house, so it has still been difficult to stay ahead of everything. There is a lot of news concerning gold and gold prospecting, and I have several links to blogs and pages you might be interested in. I am very excited about a new affiliate that has EVRYTHING YOU WANT for gold prospecting, too! Equipment, books, maps, pans, classifiers, you name it! You could access them on your own, but, if you go through me, I get to earn a few pennies to help with my website expenses. (Yeah, believe it or not, running a website DOES cost money!) I don’t get a click through, so if you don’t find what you want at the price you want, my affiliate isn’t out any money. However, I am very impressed with this company and that is why I decided to ask them if I could promote them. You can look at what they have HERE, Clearance HERE, and Monthly Specials HERE.


So, are you cold enough yet? We got some light drizzle this morning that froze on the roadways due to temps just under freezing. I still have not turned on the furnace, yet, as it just hasn’t been cold enough in the townhouse to warrant it. I don’t know, but maybe I’m somewhat resistant to cold from all that panning in cold mountain streams, and metal detecting at high altitudes. I’ll tell ya, there have been some of those days that the car was a welcome refuge from the biting winds! Still, I wish it was still summer so I could wander in the woods with a gold pan and a shovel. I remember the smell of the pines and the beauty of the fall colors, listening to the rushing of the river, and wondering if we will have enough water at Cache Creek to pan in. Did you see any wildlife? I mean, in the wild, not in the zoo. The mountains looming in the distance, the call of gold in the gold bearing areas all add to the lure of the gold fields. Ah, how we live for summer!


We celebrated our 37th year of marriage this past week. Ok, celebrate is a bit strong for what we do, but we remember it. LOL! We were married just before Thanksgiving, and so there are always a lot of activities going on at that time and we often have a quiet dinner at home with cards and flowers. Or not.


As I am writing this I see that gold is up and platinum is only about $17.40 more than gold! WOW! How far platinum has fallen since its’ high earlier this year. I am also reading that gold coins are in scarce supply and demand is starting to surge. With the stock market in the dump, the gold ETF’s are trading at well under the spot price of gold, so the paper is not a good investment right now.


There have been a lot of blog and URL links this week that you might be interested in. Here are a few. The first is a blog by a man who lives in Alaska and he writes about the state and its trails. Valdez, Alaska’s Best Kept Secret: The Hiking Trails takes you some of the scenic places you might not see on an ordinary trip to Alaska. The next is a website article on some of the issues dredgers and prospectors are facing in the northwest. Read about it at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/388349_goldvsfish20.html . I also found a hobby blog that has an interesting article on metal detectors I thought you might like to read. Choosing the Proper Metal Detector. Hopefully there will be more time to devote to posts this next week. I know, I know. It’s Thanksgiving week, but all of our family things will have been finished this weekend, so we are free next week to do what we want….and four days to do it in!

Your DIY website links are:
Gold Suckers
http://miningold.com/suck.html

Black Sand Separators
http://miningold.com/seps.html

Gold mining Vacuum
http://miningold.com/gvac.html

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION! And keep those you love close, in proximity and in your heart. We have much that is and will happen now and in the New Year, and much that will be lost. That isn’t a metaphor, but a fact. Our oldest son’s business is soaring, but we may lose one of our parents before that is realized. I believe that all things unfold as they are meant to….I just wish sometimes I could manipulate the timing. Be safe out there and until next week……


Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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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: www.worldopenpanning.homestead.com . If the links do not work, copy and paste them into your browser.

If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now closed TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until April 1st.
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HookedonGold Gazette 11/14/08

Yup, that's what gold looks like!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $742.30
· Spot price last Gazette: $733.90
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Calendar of Events
NOVEMBER
· 2nd End of Daylight Savings Time
· 4th ELECTION DAY Get out and VOTE!
· 11th Veterans Day
· 12th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00 p.m.
· 27th THANKSGIVING
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NEWS

You would think that with most of our gold finding season behind us, an early Thanksgiving feast finished, and the fact that it isn’t quite Christmas shopping season yet, that we would be having a nice, quiet reprieve before the holidays, right? NOT! In fact, our lives seem to have been even BUSIER than they were this summer. I really didn’t think that was possible, but it has taken me three days to catch up on the household things that are URGENT since Wednesday. When I realized it was time to publish the Newsletter, well, the list of things to write about was done, but that was it. So, I am a day late, but by Wednesday, I was THREE days late.

You read about part of the newsletter items yesterday in a blog post, and so, I will finish today with what else is going on. The biggest news in Colorado mining this past week has been Freeport-McMoran’s decision to postpone the opening of the Climax Moly mine indefinitely and layoff 25% of their workforce at the Henderson mine. They are planning to complete the construction going on at the Climax mine, but opening it has been delayed due to the slow down in steel production and demand. You can read more about it at http://www.fcx.com/ .

We had our first measurable snow yesterday here in Denver with a quick storm that moved in early in the morning and left almost a quarter inch of the stuff, which melted as soon as the sun came out later in the day. That means we did not make the latest date for snow fall in the Denver area, which would have been Nov. 22nd. I-70 and the mountains have had several good snows over the past couple of weeks, and most ski areas opened early.

Blog posts you might be interested in include one by an artist on panning at Panning For Gold, this newsarticle from Vancouver on new panning regulations http://www.thenewstribune.com/adventure/story/536229.html , and several that are commenting on the gold markets and what they may do this next year. Open Letter on Gold Demand and Supply, 'GOLD TO BREAK TO UPSIDE, DOLLAR TO COLLAPSE', and Gold Outperforms... Everything .

As to the gold ETFs, you are essentially buying paper, and the paper has been trading at a discount to the real price of gold. Invest in the real thing, if you are looking to do that. Gold miners should go up with this trend in a bull market in gold, too.

Are you still out finding gold? If so, comment to our blog and let us know what you are finding. If you receive RSS notifications, Hooked on Gold website now has an RSS feed you can subscribe to. You’ll find it on the home page.

Well, that’s it for today. I could go on about my trip up to Greeley to deliver a new distributor to Bella Health Systems, but that isn’t about this kind of “gold”. See you next week, and hopefully there will be more time for some extra blogs this week. As always…..

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
Google has 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: www.worldopenpanning.homestead.com . If the links do not work, copy and paste them into your browser.

If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now closed TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until April 1st.
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Is It Friday? Must Be time to Find Out What Gold Closed At

Corrugated Minisluice 'poop tube"

Is it Friday already!? I cannot believe a whole week has gone by already, and I am not ready with the newsletter, so you will get a mini version blog post today, and I’ll get it ready tomorrow with all that is going on....that is if I can stay connected right now. Connections have failed here just now and all day yesterday, so who knows.

Gold touched below $700 this past week, but has rallied today to end the week at $742.30, while the markets still can’t make up their minds.

GPOC’s meeting included a run down on the Arkansas River project that artist Cristobal wants to put up on it in 2012. If you are not interested in seeing a red sky while you are rafting, you might want to let the Alamosa BLM office know about it. They are also wanting to erect pylons all along the river banks to support the red material they want to suspend over the river…… for miles. They also have no intention of removing said pylons when they are done, either. Now, I’m probably wrong, but I think they have to dig a whole lot of dirt to put these concrete pylons up, and then leave for all posterity to admire. I’m not sure how all this damage is different from prospecting, but the Arkansas Headwaters group seems to be in favor of this type of damage.

The November Gem Show last weekend had a lot of people wandering, but sales were very slow. I have new jewelry, however, that will be perfect for the Christmas season and beyond. 18K gold and emeralds, of course.

Here is your DIY links so you can search for that special piece of prospecting equipment:
Suction Device
http://www.goldprospectors.org/plans.cfm

Specific Gravity Scale
http://miningold.com/scale.html

Sluice, Hibanker, ect
http://www.geocities.com/wyo_gold/?200625

I haven’t checked these out, but if you find they are gone, drop me a comment and let me and others know.

OH! We now have a new RSS feed onsite for you to subscribe to. Better post now and see you tomorrow.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau
www.hookedongold.com

HookedonGold Gazette 11/07/08

Christmas is around the corner, so don't forget the prospecting scenes we have available for your favorite prospector!

Prospector with Sluice box with blue agate pool

Prospector with Amethyst and wagon wheel with or without the "Colorado"

Miners with small geode, with or without the "Colorado"

Geode Pendants in silver or gold leaf

Panner on Pyrite or panner on amethyst. (The panners are about the same size.)



Miner on small rail spike, with or without "Colorado"

Mine Train on Large Rail Spike, with or without "Colorado" All available in the goldnstore!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $733.90
· Spot price last Gazette: $723.70
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Calendar of Events
NOVEMBER
· 2nd End of Daylight Savings Time
· 4th ELECTION DAY Get out and VOTE!
· 11th Veterans Day
· 12th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00 p.m.
· 27th THANKSGIVING
_______________________________________
NEWS

Ah, another week with emeralds in 18K gold….what could be better? Ok, ok. I know there is finding gold and all, but there’s about a foot or more of snow falling in the Colorado mountains, and this is the best game in town for me right now. Veterans Day is this Tuesday, so remember all our vets who have given so much for this country. Hooked on Gold Thanks you!!!

International California Mining Journal in their October issue has a story on miners being “dusted”. Check out the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in google and then search Richard J. Ennis. You should find it interesting.

Also, they reported on the Colorado roadless areas rules the U.S. Forest Service has published. It is 23 pages and too long for here, but you can see it at http://roadless.fs.fed.us/documents/colorado_roadless/fr_co_rule.pdf A lot of double speak and charts, but a once over skim looks like they will eliminate roads to over 4 million acres of Colorado.

Goes hand in hand with what Colorado’s Democratic Governor, Legislature and Congressional representatives would like to do….put our public lands into wilderness without an act of Congress, so the public can’t access them. The mountain bikers and hikers don’t like it when they get excluded right along with everyone else. They usually think they will be able to access areas unfettered by the rest of us. The last one I heard about was this summer involving Browns Canyon, again. Let’s see….California group to conduct a15 year study…..limited access by anyone….and you would have to apply for a permit to use the area and get approved. Even horses would be limited for travel. Seems like you might want to start applying for those permits now so you can go camping in 2020.

Got a thought on the price of gold and the dollar. Now, we know that a declining dollar is supposed to be good the gold, right? Well, how come do you suppose, the dollar is strengthening when the banks are such a mess? Consider this: If all those 401K’s get put into cash, that would be dollars, right? And if we are buying all of our own dollars, are we strengthening our own dollar right now? What happens when we stop liquidating assets in 401K’s, IRA’s and Hedge Funds? Falling dollar and rising gold? HMMMMM.. Not sure. Don’t know.

As I announced yesterday, I will be including some links to other blogs and information I get through goolge alerts. Anyone can sign up for this service from google, but be aware that if you want your alerts to be specific and not general, you need to put your search word in quotation marks so goolge only finds that word or words and doesn’t send you alerts on all the words singularly. Hope you found some good information on Thursday’s links.

Here is your DIY link for the week. Sluice Box
http://www.geocities.com/wyo_gold/build.html?200624 That it for this week. As always

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
Google has 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/ . If the links do not work, copy and paste them into your browser.

If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now closed TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until April 1st.
_______________________________________
http://www.hookedongold.com/
http://www.hookedongold2.com/ Metal Detectors at Auction
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Hooked on Gold Gazette delayed this Friday

Hey gold prospectors! I forgot to mention in todays earlier blog that the Gazette will not make this page until after 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. The Gem Show is in Denver, and that means I will be in the Emerald booth for the next three days and won't be home in time to post tomorrow until after 8:00. See you then, and

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley

Google Alerts on Gold and Gold Prospecting

Reminder from this Summer. I can smell the breeze, can you?

Hey all you gold prospectors out there! Man, o, man has the Fall been busy this year!!!! I keep thinking I will have time to blog, and the next thing I know I’m climbing the stairs to go to bed! I have finally subscribed to Google Alerts, and they are sending me some very interesting information I will share with you as space and time permits. There are several interesting blogs you might like to follow, or read their post that I link to. It should give me some more to blog about, too.

Market Rubbemeker’s blog on gold is very interesting, and follows some of my own thinking on the subject. Give this page a read and see if you don’t gain some insite on this page entitled So That's Why Gold Prices Are Up Today .

For those of you who like the Minelab metal detectors, you will find this forum of interest. I am referencing a page on it that is describing coils at Re: 5x10" DD/HF Coil and the 6" DD/HF Coil - Visible Differences , and please note that the page is almost a year old. Doesn’t matter, though, ‘cause the info is still the same.

I’ll leave you with one more that has to do with the price of gold and where it might go in the near future. Check out what one gold bug is saying about it at Brien Lundin: Is Gold Holding a Wild Card? .

Baby boy is in the Philippines now for three days. Haven’t heard from him yet, but I think they started their classes today, and they are teaching at night. Might be a bit confusing right now, what with jetlag, nights that are days, and all they needed to do to prepare for their classes. Hopefully he will give us a jingle this weekend.

Elections are finally over!!!! Yah! Dems in control, though, are not good for public lands. They like to think that the public has no right to use ‘em. Also means that we will continue to lose places to prospect for gold and finding gold will become more difficult. ICMJ had some interesting things to say about them in their latest issue that I’ll cover tomorrow in the newsletter. That’s it for now, and REMEMBER that if the links do not work, copy and paste them into your browser to view. If all else fails, put it into a word doc and access it from there. If you continue to have trouble with the links, PLEASE let me know so I can modify them to be more browser friendly.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau