Wishing you a Golden Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to All! We hope everyone has a wonderful time with family and freinds this holiday. The turkey is in the oven and we are getting ready for our feast, but I have a few minutes to chat with you since there will be no Gazette tomorrow.

Gold is down today around $1186 as Dubai asked for a 6 month extension on its' loans, which, in turn, sent the London Stock Exchange tumbling and forcing a three hour closure. This should frim up the dollar sending gold lower, but I'll be watching to see what happens later.

We got the tile laid in the entry way yesterday, so we will be looking for another project to work on. Shopping will be taking up some time and there are get togethers with friends to look forward to in the coming weeks. Have a happy and safe holiday season, and may your golden wishes all come true. Check Gold 'N' Store for that special gold nugget jewelry item your looking for. Check back next week, too, as I get more raw gold for sale posted. We should have some time in the next few days to get it photgraphed and posted on the store site. Looking for a prospecting gift or stocking stuffer with a gold prospecting theme? We have those, too.

Until next week,

Good Prospecting to You,

Shirley

http://www.hookedongold.com/

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Hooked on Gold Gazette 11/20/09

HOOKED ON GOLD GAZETTE
· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $1150.90
· Spot price last Gazette : $1096.90
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Calendar of Events

NOVEMBER

· 3rd Election Day
· 11th GPOC Meeting
· 13th-15th Gem Show at Merchandise Mart
· 26th Thanksgiving

DECEMBER

· 9th GPOC Christmas Party…Remember your unwrapped toys for children. Our Marine friends will be there to pick them up. You may also make cash donations.
· 24th Christmas Eve
· 25th Christmas Day
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NEWS

As with all good intentions that fail, things this past week have gotten in the way of my getting back to you before now. Our friend Pedro, from Colombia, S.A., had some extra time in Denver this week, so we spent our week with him. We don’t get these chances often, so we take them when we can. We visited the Denver Museum and the Garden of the Gods, and even though we had snow last weekend, the days we were out were very nice, indeed. Beautiful blue skies and warm weather made for a very enjoyable time together.

I’ll be working on internal linking to Gold ‘N’ Store as I am sure the text links go to the wrong page. I thought about that this past weekend and realized that I still have more work to do on the store, too. I’ll be putting up more page links and getting some more gold listed, as well as working on meta tags and descriptions. Check back on Cyber Monday to see what I have that is new.

Cache Creek still had gold prospectors in and out as of a couple of weeks ago, even with 4 inches of snow still on the ground. The Game and Fish Dept. has been watching for hunters in the area, too. As a conservation area, it is closed to hunting, and there have been several hunters in there this season.

Hope you have been watching gold jump up and down this past week. It touched $1170 before falling back again. Still, a nice run up in the metal. Everyone at the Gem Show was talking about the healthcare bill and the state of the economy around the world. All news bodes well for gold, but silver may be the story of note after all is said and done. It closed today at $18.51.

Looking for some extra cash? You might want to ‘get your teeth’ into selling gold. Read about it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/19/business/main5711640.shtml . And, is you are interested in buying or have bought gold ingot bars, you might want to check into this article about how some of them may be filled with tungsten http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tungsten-filled-gold-bar-conspiracy-gets-discussed-on-cnbc-2009-11 .

There is probably a ton of other news out there that I missed while I was gallivanting around Colorado. With the holidays beginning next week, we are looking forward to a quiet weekend before the Thanksgiving Holiday and the mad rush to Christmas begins. This also means that there will be no Gazette next Friday as we spend time with our extended families. I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas, and a Holiday Season that is filled with Joy, and remember to visit Gold ‘N’ Store for your prospecting gifts.

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Monthly Prospecting Equipment Specials
Basic Prospecting Equipment

Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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Playing with a Different Kind of Gold This Weekend

Two of the gold panner examples of gifts for prospectors in Gold 'N' Store

Guess what? This is Gem Show weekend! All of you that have read this blog for a while know that means I will be playing with a different kind of gold as I spending the weekend in the Columbian Emerald Booth with 18K jewelry gold at the Merchandise Mart. That also means you will not get a Newsletter today, but I'll get back with you on Tuesday with what news I have for you.

Gold spot price is staying above $1100 as of this morning, and I'll be watching it to see if it holds for the weekend. It has only $7.00 to fall before it closes below $1100, so today will be an interesting day to watch it.

I have news on Cache Creek, too, for you.

Remember that the new store is back up and running. I have spent time this past week getting the descriptions up to snuff and I have started to add the gold back to it, too. Check back often to see what is new and what has sold already. Get ready for Christmas realy so you don't miss the old priced 14K gold nugget jewelry I still have in stock. You can check out Gold 'N' Store now if you like.

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Monthly Prospecting Equipment Specials
Basic Prospecting Equipment

Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)

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New Store at Hooked on Gold

Good Day to everyone. I have had a wonderful start to my day by being able to finish, upload and link the new store. That's right! Hooked on Gold has a new gold prospectors store. After last year's attempt to replace the pages that I had spent weeks constructing and never did work well, I found a program that was easy to use and purchased it. Last year I purchased a program that was so confusing to use I gave up on it after about 8 weeks.

My experience with it was so bad, I was reluctant to try the new one, but I have to say it has delivered everything it said it would so far, and more. While it still took some time and effort to put together, the instructions were easy to understand and implement. CoffeeCup has really good programs on its' website that include my new store.

Now, I didn't spring for the customizable template options since I didn't know if it would even work well, but I did include the familiar goldpanner icon I have on my webpages. The "HOME" button at the top of the menu takes you back to the hookdeongold home page.

You will find only a few of the items listed on the store home page, and more if you click on the categories either in the menu or on the page. I'll add more items and some gold in the next week, so check back to see what else is going on. Christmas is coming!

While going through the links after I had uploaded everything, I found the Cache Creek page is not loading, so I'll have to work on that this afternoon. For now, you can see and use the new store at http://www.hookedongold.com/store

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
http://www.hookedongold.com/

Hooked on Gold Gazette 11/06/09

Good News! Ben Parker's book is back in print. New link should be up in the store this weekend.

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $1096.90
· Spot price last Gazette : $1044.70
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Calendar of Events

NOVEMBER

· 3rd Election Day
· 11th GPOC Meeting
· 13th-15th Gem Show at Merchandise Mart
· 26th Thanksgiving

DECEMBER
· 24th Christmas Eve
· 25th Christmas Day
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NEWS

What a difference a week makes! Freezing temps last week and mid 70’s this week. Being out of doors was really pleasant the past few days, and we are thinking about a metal detecting trip tomorrow. Or perhaps I should say Larry is. I’m not ready to be cold again quite so soon.

Gold, now there was a story this past week. It jumped over $52.00 and even touched $1001.00 before retreating on Thursday. With economic concerns in everyone’s minds, many are picking up gold as a hedge more now. India’s purchase of IMF gold didn’t hurt either, and has caused people to take their gold into the markets in exchange for money. Many are melting older pieces to be made into new for their brides.

I found this interesting article this past week on why the government won’t confiscate your gold. The first reason is that circumstances now are simply not what they were in the 1930’s, another is that we are already off the gold standard. Several other points are very well made in the article. A very good read. http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1257177600.php

I was wandering around the internet looking for information on another subject when I came across this very god website about Victor, Colorado at http://www.victorcolorado.com/history.htm

Oregon has been in the news concerning gold prospecting and dredging for gold. ICMJ has an article on their Governor wanting to have many acres withdrawn from mineral entry so that all gold prospecting and mining will be halted or severely restricted in those areas. ICMJ has a great quote in it’s article by Mike Higbee about dredgers and fishermen. http://icmj.com/index.php for more info. Oregon is also attempting to curtail dredging there as California has done, and you can read about that at http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/ap/kulongoski-wants-to-head-off-calif-gold-miners-64391782.html I probably gave you that last one before, but this situation bears repeating the article.

That’s about it, folks. Enjoy the nice weather while we have it. Thanksgiving is coming up fast and I have almost all my Christmas shopping finished. Still hoping I can get my new sluice box in the water before everything freezes up, but who knows. Maybe it won’t see water until next Spring.

(Links to our affiliates for gold prospecting equipment
Good deals, and GREAT folks)
You can find Panning Kits
Monthly Prospecting Equipment Specials
Basic Prospecting Equipment

Until next week…….

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 MARCH 1st.
_______________________________________
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www.hookedongoldprospecting.ning.com
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