1st Annual- presented by Gold-Unlimited. Saturday, November 3, 2012.
Gold is at $1714.90 this morning. As promised, I am bringing you the first installment of the events that took place last Saturday.
Amidst all the problems and work associated with buying a
new home, moving and selling the old home, we decided to take last Saturday
afternoon off to attend a ‘gold summit’ put on by Gold Unlimited whose purpose
was to get some information out to prospectors in the Colorado area about local
regulations and what local entities are expecting from gold prospectors.
The 5 hour speaker lineup was informative and spanned
general prospecting to hard rock, and even had one local celebrity from the
Gold Rush show. Pizza was brought in for
participants who knew lunch was being served.
The venue was cold….I mean there was no heat in the room and the door
was open the entire afternoon. It was sunny and 60 degrees outside, but for
those who were inside sitting on metal chairs for hours, it was cold. Thankfully, one of the speakers needed a bit
of preparation time, or we would not have had a break at all. Of course, you could leave at any time and miss
part of what was being said. Not an
option for someone who needed to get the information down and written about in
a blog. I was chilled to the bone and
shivering by the time it was over.
That being said, the rest of the afternoon was worth our
time to listen to what was said. If it
hadn’t been, I certainly would not have stayed and froze all afternoon. LOL!
Since there was so much that was gone over, I will post for several days
so you can digest it in pieces.
Speakers were from Gold-Unlimited, Christie Wright from South Park
Historical Society and Park County Mining Association, Al Mosche who owns and
operates the Phoenix Mine outside Idaho Springs, Fred Dodge representing the
for profit gold miners, Ann Beierle who discussed regulations pertaining to
Clear Creek in Golden, Dave Winters National Forest Service Stream Biologist,
Colleen Gad with Jefferson County Open Space, and Jake Wells with Denver Parks
and Recreation. We also were given some information about Gold Unlimited and
heard a history of Arapahoe City.
Everyone had a specific time slot to fill and the meeting
moved along very nicely. We were
finished by around 5:00 p.m., in time for a nice dinner before heading home to
turn all our clocks back one hour to end daylight savings time.
Since this start is getting so long, I
will stop it here and tomorrow I will start catching you up on the information
that the speakers gave out. You will
find you know much of it, but there was much clarification on some of the terms
used. As usual, your interpretation and
theirs is not the same, and I did ask for clarification so I understood it
myself.
As Always,
Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau
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