Time Passes Quickly When You Are Finding Gold

Mountain Vistas in Gold Country!

It's July 5th. I am having a hard time believing that my last post here was on June 27th! I am online almost every day writing somewhere and answering questions, so if I have neglected you here, I am sorry.

Gold closed last Friday around $931.00 and it is at $929.60 now. The 4th of July weekend was quiet at Cache Creek, and we are looking at our second trip back home to pick up mail. That might not seem significant to you, but that means we have been away for almost a month, since the P.O. will only hold for 30 days. Our oldest son will be celebrating his 35th birthday this week, and the youngest is moving. Needless to say, this trip back will be very busy although short.

We have found gold most days we have looked, and with the Arkansas still near flood stage, Cache Creek and Point Bar are about all there is that can be worked right now. Lots of nice gold is still coming out regularly. Most days there is one highbanker to every 4 sluices at Cache Creek, and some days there are no 'bankers at all. Weather has been cool with rain most days, too. New signs have been placed by the BLM concerning trees as too many are being undercut and taken down. They also placed a piece of plexi glass on the permanent information side of the Kiosk so weather and wind doesn't send the papers flying all over the parking lot.

We had our water pump go out on the new UTV on Saturday, and we suspect it was damaged in the first place, as I could smell coolant and water vapor from the start. The impeller also does not turn, so we are looking at conversations with the shiper tomorrow morning to see what needs to be done. We are looking forward to some July sunshine, and then will probably complain about how hot it is. LOL! DID find some more old markers and got a better look at others that we have photographed before the pump went out. Until next time...

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley

Cache Creek Gold Prospecting Responsibilities

Trees should stand tall at Cache Creek, not down in a hole!

Cache Creek is becoming a challenge to keep things from getting out of control. While most miners in the area adhere to the regs, there are those who feel the regs do not apply to them when no one is watching. Several violations will be addressed here, and hopefully get the word out that these types of infractions jeopardize the continuation of keeping the area open to the public.

First is the undermining of trees. NO ONE who has NOT contacted the BLM about tree removal is allowed to remove ANY tree for ANY reason. The tree above was undercut three feet past its' tap root. This tree was also marked in orange and was to be saved. Who in their right mind would undermine a tree to this extent and cause such a hazard to all who are in the area? Camp Hosts called BLM concerning it and obtained permission to take it down, but if this irresponsible conduct continues, BLM will close this area due to the unsafe nature of the area to all who visit.

FIRES MUST BE CONTAINED IN A METAL FIRE CONTAINER, AND MUST BE OUTSIDE THE DAY USE AREA! In case you are not aware, the middle mountains of Colorado are under extreme fire danger regardless of the amount of rain we get. Beetle kill is so wide spread that any fire is potentially the start of a fire here that will be unstoppable due to the number of dead and dying trees. Certainly, no one using Cache Creek would want to be responsible for or prosecuted for starting such a fire. This is NO JOKE! It is VERY serious, and beyond being ticketed for having a fire on the ground and not in an elevated metal fire pan, the Federal Government WILL jail you for starting a forest fire, as they have before for irresponsible behavior.

PICK UP YOUR CIGARETTE BUTTS!

FILL IN YOUR HOLES! While we are aware that many leave the holes open for themselves or others to use after they have left the area, this poses a danger for anyone walking above them. Camp Hosts are constantly filling in holes and pits that others leave. This is exhausting work, and if you think it takes too much of your time, imagine how much time it takes for those who did not make them in the first place.

The bear is becoming more aggressive. It is appearing earlier in the evening and is getting used to people, their noises and movements. This is creating a situation where the camping signs will need to be moved so that all the camps are not so close together creating a foraging opportunity for the bear. You are in its' habitat, not the other way around, and it would be prudent for campers to spread out a bit so that a confrontation with the bear is less likely to happen. The area being used now may be convenient, but it is creating a problem with congestion, etc.

We are hopeful that all will abide by common sense and the regulations posted on the kiosk, as well as not pushing the envelope when no one is watching. We are not there to babysit all of you, but it seems as if some of you need that. We truly do not want to lose this area to the irresponsible actions of a few. Please do not shoot at the bear. An attack will close the area and the bear will suffer the consequences as well as you will. All of you are responsible for policing yourselves and questioning your neighbors if their actions are not in compliance with regulations. Enforcement is NOT your duty, but you can ask why they are acting the way they are, and report to the camp host any questionable activity as soon as possible so that action by them can be taken.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
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New Gold Prospecting Toy

Ready to find those yellow rocks!

Wow! getting everything written and posted while being involved with all we are doing in reallife is becoming more challenging. I will have several posts in the next couple of days concerning gold and Cache Creek, and other things going on.

Today, the UTV is finished and ready to roll. Cloudy weather may keep us close to 'home' and not out finding gold, but we should be able to take our new toy out for a spin on some back roads to see how it handles. That's it in the photo, and yeah it's for us old people. Originally developed for light duty use on a farm, it looks like it will be just what we need to get around on those roads we cannot get the truck up.

The gold prospecting season here on the Arkansas is starting to heat up, even though weather has been a hinderance. Most days have been warm until early afternoon when we get showers, sometimes lasting into the evening. Everything here seems to be about a month behind and we still have cottonwood cotton flying around. We have found gold with our pans while we are hosting at Cache Creek and taken the metal detectors out to find some more gold, too. Website should show you the changes in the claim status at Cache Creek in the next day or so. We have active claims now at the cemetery, so you need to stay out of there. All for now. Stay tuned!

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau
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Cache Creek Gold Prospecting

Building from days long ago

Ok, Ok, it's been a while since I have had time to enter a blog post on this site, but we have been SUPER busy. Twitter helps with info, but it just isn't the same, is it? Weather has not been with us so far, but it should be getting better as June turns into July.

We have begun the Camp Host program at Cache Creek and begun trying to address some of the problems in the area. Undercutting of trees is still going on and everyone needs to remember that you need to stay 10 feet from the trees leaving their main roots alone. Cutting of trees is prohibited and the digging of straight down pits is dangerous. Anyone doing that needs to fill those in completely. It is NOT the Camp Hosts job to clean up your mess.

Another item that came to our attention is the claims at the bottom of the valley near the highway and below the cemetery. Those are now active and everyone needs to respect that and stay out of there.

The Porta Potty has been a big hit, so much so that GPOC is looking into having it pumped either twice a week or putting in a second one if funds permit from the grant money. All for now.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
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Gold Prospecting in the Rain

Another great shot of Mt. Princeton from Snowy Peaks RV Park.

Last week was dismally wet with rain nearly eveny day. This is one of the last shots I got of the mountains before everything went cloudy and grey. I have a couple of great shots out my back window of the park and how wet and gloomy the day was yesterday posted on hookedongoldprospecting. You can see them on the main page.

Snow lines were below the trees today as we sped our way through South Park on our way back to Arvada to open mail and finish getting everything ready for our summer escape. We will still have a few trips back and forth, but we should be able to stay most of the time in B.V.

We have injoyed our stay at Snowy Peaks, too, even though the weather has been less than great. Even in the rain, the staff goes busily about their chores and everything in the park is kept tidy. Six shower/restrooms and an onsite laundry makes keeping everything clean very convenient. Many activities are scheduled throughout the week in addition to everything that is going on in Buena Vista.

With all the snow and rain we have had these past couple of months, I want to remind everyone that we are in Spring runoff in Colorado, and all the streams and rivers are running high and swift. It only takes a couple on inches of swift water to knock you down and send you tumbling along the boulders. 6 inches can turn a car over.

Gold prospecting season is heating up. Have fun out there, but remember you are looking and finding gold in wild places, so be careful.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
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Visiting Cache Creek

It's HERE! The Porta Potty was put in at Cache Creek this weekend! And they even came in and serviced it while we were there.

Yes, gold prospectors, the porta potty is a reality at Cache Creek. This is a BIG plus for us and credit needs to go to the BLM and GPOC for all their hard work and cooperation to keep this area open for gold prospecting.

The creek is runing with lots of water now, but those who were in the area this past weekend left trash all around, cigarette butts, and even had fires within the area on the ground and not in fire pans. These are things that can not be tolerated. Trash removal and fire pans are state wide regulations that must be abided by. I would like to remind all that keeping this area open has been a long struggle for everyone involved and we certainly do not wish to see this oportunity destroyed because of a few who have decided that they do not have to abide by rules and regulations. Oh, and, PICK UP YOUR BUTTS!

We met some great people while we were there, even one who is a member of the hookedongoldprospecting.ning.com membership site. Another has been hiking in since mid spring after seeing the new sign at the beginning of the power line road. Also took it upon himslef to reattach the papers to the kiosk. Thanks Issac!

As always, we enjoyed ourselves completely and look forward to our next time there. Oh, we didn't find much gold this trip, but we will find an area we can work and find some gold. Did hear another story of big gold coming out of the highbanking area last year late, though.

It started raining here just before dusk, and we may get some more during the night, but the next few days look to be nice with possible showers in the afternoon. Those who follow on Twitter saw my first twitpics posted there today. The white peaks were gorgeous this morning. As Always,

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
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Gold Prospecting from Buena Vista

Mt. Harvard from Snowy Peaks RV Park

Hey gang! We have sunshine this morning in Buena Vista! Yesterday was so gloomy no one wanted to do much of anything. We had a propane bottle to try and fix and then it started to rain...and rain. It started about 3:30 p.m. and was still raining when we went to bed. Not hard, just steady. One of my twitter follows sent a twitpic from west of here while it was snowing.

We have a couple of days to try and get out to Cache Creek and see what has been going on so far. We might even pick up some gold while we are there prospecting. :>D

I have a gold prospecting article for you today on the resurgence of gold panning in the U.K. at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1188876/Gold-rush-How-hundreds-turned-prospecting-beat-crunch.html

Later prospectors.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
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Cache Creek Gold

Mosquito Pass

Yes, it is still cloudy and gloomy here, and it has rained twice since lunchtime, but we are still in the beautiful Colorado Mountains for the summer, and you ain't! LOL. Ok, maybe you are, but most of you ain't.

Good news yesterday! The BLM gate to the highbanking area at Cache Creek was open yesterday so let the gold getting begin. Remember to have you special bonds for this area.

While you are in your rush to BBQ and find gold, please remember to take a few minutes to remember or thank those who have served or are serving this Memorial Day Weekend. We know we appreciate each and every one of you, and thank you all for your sacrifices so that we can remain a free people.

Article of interest I came across concerning the future prices of gold can be found at http://www.goldensextant.com/commentary34.html#anchor376929

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
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Gold Prospecting to Begin Memorial Day Weekend

Mt. Massive earlier today from Adelaide

Gold has closed up this week at $956.50 and silver at $14.69. Quite a ride from the $880's a few weeks ago, eh?

Toady we ventured out to do some prospecting. Found a bit of ore and got caught in a downpour at about the Hayden Ranch through Twin Lakes. Granite was dry when we got there on our way back to camp, but by 5:15 p.m. there was some pretty intense rain falling in BV. It has stopped, but we are predicted to have more of the same through the weekend.

To boot, the hills were all white this morning and I expect them to be that way again tomorrow. Hopefully, the gate will get opened tomorrow to the highbanking area at Cache Creek. We'll stop by tomorrow and see if it is or not.

I haven't had much time to blog the last few days, but now that we are settled in, more or less, I will have more time to get more posted about what we are doing, and what is going on. There is much going on on twitter, also, and you can follow the 'twits' with an RSS feeder or your own account.

Speaking of a lot going on, if you haven't joined the new prospectors networking site at http://www.hookedongoldprospecting.ning.com you are missing a lot of information, questions, answers and activity. Discussion groups have been started on many topics and we have members signing up almost daily. The site has lots to keep you busy and interested. Check it out, join up and invite your prospecting friends to do the same.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley

Ready for Gold Prospecting

Camp is set up now for the summer here at Snowy Peaks RV Park, and we are a couple of very 'happy campers'. LOL! The weather is gorgeous, sunny and warm. We bugged out about 8 this morning, stopped into Frenchman's Creek to pick up the tailer, and got ourselves parked before noon. All afternoon we have been getting things situated and cleaned, and making lists of what we need to bring up next week. Wifi connection is great, and the dish is working, so we are all set for prospecting for gold, blogging, and relaxing. Looks like rain tomorrow, but we have plenty to keep us busy if it gets too nasty.

Gold closed the weekend at $930.90 a nice leap from this morning before we left. I found an article this past week on the mint at Carson City I thought you might like. If you ever find any gold coins made by this mint, be sure and keep them. They are usually in high demand and sell for very good prices.

Watch this next week for information on Cache Creek and the changes and new items coming to the area on the website. I have placed some of the information on http://www.hookedongoldprospecting.ning.com for members to read. Anyone can join the site and we have lively discussions going on about metal detecting, Cache Creek, and Lost Canyon.

Have to go get ice cream.....I know, but we gotta do what we gotta do. More later this week.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley
P.S. We read this morning that mining companies are suing Ken Salazar, head of the department of the Interior, for canceling some of the scheduled auctions for leases earlier this year.

Point Bar Mother's Day Weekend '09

The Pit at Point Bar

One of five camps this weekend

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! Everyone is having a great time this weekend at Point Bar State Recreational Area. Met some great people and everyone is finding gold. We all have some sore muscles, but the warm temps and getting out to play in the dirt has been enjoyed by all. Looking forward to another great day today, and putting more gold into our vial.

Weather here has been warm, although with wind. We saw this morning that they had about 3 inches of snow yesterday at Eldora and Denver was chilly with rain. Sure glad we are in Salida right now. :>D

Good Prospecting to You,

Shirley

Let's Go Gold Panning Days

Working the Gold Pans at Point Bar -
What came out of 3/4 of a bucket with two pans

Our first day at Let's Go Gold Panning Days was good. The windy was pesky, but we pulled enough fine gold from the pit to cover the bottom of a vial. :>D We got to the GPOC camp too late to set up the highbanker, so we dug about 6 3/4 buckets and panned them at the river. The picture above shows what came out of one of those buckets.

We did eat dirt all day, as the wind kicked up all afternoon, but the weather was sunny and warm enough to get my feet in the river. We will have more time today to take more pictures, so stay tuned tomorrow for day two.

Gold closed yesterday at $916.20 and had a very nice rise over last week. I missed John Gregory's 150th anniversary of his discovery of gold in the Blackhawk area on May 6th, but I did find a nice article on it you can read at the link.

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley

HookedonGold Gazette 5/02/09

Nuthin' but a blur and 12.12 seconds. Not good enough for first, though.

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $885.80
· Spot price last Gazette: $913.00
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Calendar of Events

MAY


· 2-3 GPAA Denver Show
· 5th Cinco de Mayo
· 8, 9, & 10th Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar Recreational Area
· 10th MOTHER’S DAY
· 23rd -25th Memorial Day Weekend Observed
· 30th Memorial Day

JUNE

· 6th D-Day
· 14th Flag Day
· 20th – 21st Kingdom Days, Breckenridge, Co
· 21st FATHER’S DAY

JULY

· 4th Fourth of July-Indepence Day
· 25th – 26th Burro Days – Fairplay
· 31st – Aug 2nd Colo. St. Gold Panning Championships in Breckenridge, Co.

AUGUST

· July 31st– Aug 2nd Colo.St Gold Panning Championships in Breckenridge, Co.
· 1st – 2nd Gold Rush Days, and Cotin Tail mineral show in Buena Vista, Co.
· 7th – 9th Boom Days in Leadville, Co.

SEPTEMBER

· 7th Labor Day
· 18th – 20th Denver Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show

I have a request from the Colorado State Department of Health for a link to information about the swine flu outbreak.
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/epr You can also track swine flu from this website at http://mashable.com/2009/04/25/track-swine-flu
My own opinion: Wash your hands and no kissing if your partner is sick. Regular flu kills 30,000 + in the U.S. every year, and even more around the world, yet that is not considered an epidemic. Are governments and media attempting to divert your attention to what is really going on behind your back? I have to wonder at this tactic, all too often used, when something is not going well on Capitol Hill.
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NEWS

NEW! Prospecting Community Network! We have great group started with several already blogging and getting involved. You will be able to view the main page when you pull the site up to decide if it is a place you would like to hang out at.

Man, did you watch gold drop this week? Nearly got a nosebleed! LOL! Did you notice the Gazette was late? If so, I am sorry that I did not get it posted last Friday. With retirement plans going on, of course everything did not go as smoothly as I had hoped and there were many other things that jumped on the list of things to do. You know how it is. LOL!

The new prospecting forum/network is hopping with new members and questions to be answered, too, and it has taken a lot of time this past week along with everything else. Not complaining here, but we have been busy. Retirement parties went well, and Larry was very surprised when the Limo drove up to take us home on his last day at work.

Looks like, right now, we will have nice weather this next weekend for Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar, sponsored by Woody and GPOC. It is always a lot of fun getting out with folks that weekend, so if you have a day or the weekend to come out and play, please join us Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday for some gold prospecting fun. You can find more info on this event at www.gpoc.com . After that we will be looking forward to a summer of prospecting. Everyone is tired of the gloomy weather and ready to get out and get away, as well as find some gold!

I will try to follow a format for the summer that will include links to information sites, questions and answers on prospecting, as well as pictures and information about what we are doing this summer, but this will be the last official Gazette for the summer. Let me know how you like the new format, and maybe I will just adapt the blog to that. I seem to have a problem doing both without it taking too much time.

In the news this past week; some links to information that went across the wires for you to read. The first one is about an interesting way to ‘prospect’ for gold by taking it from your employer http://www.jrdeputyaccountant.com/2009/05/woman-steals-500-pounds-of-gold-from.html . There has been a lot in the news recently concerning ‘protected status’ lands and wind and solar power. Most of the usable wind and solar power in located in the western part of the U.S. Legislators continue to put vast areas of public land into protected status here, and there is much debate about how to use the west’s wind and solar power with its’ demand for water and land for the panels and towers. There is also much debate about land access to be able to put this electric power into the grid via transmission lines. As legislators put more and more land into protected status, once clear avenues to the power grid are taken away before the project can be completed, thus wasting billions of dollars in the attempt to put this ‘green’ energy to use. There is also much debate on just how green this technology really is, when taken into context with manufacturing. However, I found website with some information about protected land in the west, with an accompanying map that shows all the protected land now in the west. You will notice that unprotected lands are in white. Here is the link to U. S. protected areas database article http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2201 If you are wondering about how this pertains to prospecting for gold, all the darker areas will be harder for you to access or impossible. There is a lot of area out there that is already in protected status, or as I like to refer to it as wilderness without an act of Congress, and more is added all the time. Soon, they will have all of us trapped in small confined spaces where we cannot ‘hurt’ mother nature and wildlife. Lookin’ forward to it, aren’t you?

I wanted to say “Hi” to Travis who I saw at the GPAA show yesterday, and is a member of www.hookdongoldprospecting.ning.com . Hope to see a lot more of you this summer and as time goes on. That’s all for me this weekend. Gotta go and clean up after the open house. Ah, Monday may actually be a welcome relief! ;>D

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Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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HookedonGold Gazette 4/24/09

Yeah! That's What I'm Talkin' About!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $913.00
· Spot price last Gazette: $868.70
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Calendar of Events

APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equipment Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
· 24-26 Denver Spring Mineral and Fossil Show

MAY
· 2-3 GPAA Denver Show
· 5th Cinco de Mayo
· 8, 9, & 10th Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar Recreational Area
· 23rd -25th Memorial Day Weekend Observed
· 30th Memorial Day
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NEWS

NEW! Prospecting Community Network! We have great group started with several already blogging and getting involved. You will be able to view the main page when you pull the site up to decide if it is a place you would like to hang out at.

SOOOO nice to have sunshine again! While we will have rain this weekend, it at least will not be solid for most of us. Spring rains are welcome here and in the high country, as rain will bring snow down faster and start our gold season sooner.

You will find a new widget on the home page of www.hookedongold.com with twitter updates. It has two purposes….1 to get a posting every day to the home page so it will update in the search engines, and 2 so you can follow. Also, you will find the Calendar of Events page is updated for the summer with dates I know. I’m sure I missed a bit, but I’ll get back to it this next week as I try to get everything finalized and put to rest for the summer. Links to the panning tips page still need work.

A couple of interesting articles came up this past week I thought you might like to see. The first is about wind power and the National Parks Service’s concerns over the amount of water and land needed to support the use of solar panels in the southwest where most of the sunny days are located. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/18/national/a005500D28.DTL The other was a report about a ship from South America with gold aboard that was sunk last January. http://en.mercopress.com/2009/04/22/mystery-of-sunken-gold-cargo-in-south-atlantic-remains-locked

Summer is approaching, and we will be off prospecting. May 1st will be the last regular Gazette until Fall. I have decided that regular blogs every few days will be better to do than having the spectre of a deadline over me every Friday. I will also continue to twitter, but probably not as much. Can’t twitter and blog when you are finding gold! LOL! Larry’s last work day will be next Thursday. After that we have several weekend things planned as well as Let’s Go Gold Panning Days. Then we will be setting up summer camp around the 15th of May, and settled in by the end of May. Lots of trips are being planned with various people, so we plan to have a busy summer finding gold. Hope you will be finding the yellow stuff, too. Remember to be respectful of private property and try not to p**s anybody off. There are reports that California prospectors are coming up against robbers, so you might want to try to keep to groups.

Looking forward to reporting to you of our adventures and posting pictures of gold for you to drool over.

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Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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HookedonGold Gazette 4/17/09

Colorado Gold! Yup, that's our summer water supply!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $868.70
· Spot price last Gazette: $880.80
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Calendar of Events

APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equipment Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
· 24-26 Denver Spring Mineral and Fossil Show

MAY
· 2-3 GPAA Denver Show
· 5th Cinco de Mayo
· 8, 9, & 10th Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar Recreational Area
· 23rd -25th Memorial Day Weekend Observed
· 30th Memorial Day
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NEWS

NEW! Prospecting Community Network! We have a great group started with several already blogging and getting involved. You will be able to view the whole site for a few more weeks, and then only the main page. Check it out, and free to join.

It is snowing here in Denver today and through tomorrow. You’d have to be a hermit not to have heard on the news that we will get around 20 inches of spring snow today into tomorrow. Yes, we are dry, and it will be much needed moisture for the Front Range, but It IS April, and we’d rather the weather be good enough by now to get some prospecting in. Can’t even take the metal detectors out. 70’s this next week should break this pattern for the rest of the spring…..we hope.

I had a question this past week about the swedish pan. (You can find an example on Amazon) I have not used it, but if there is anyone one out there that has, leave a comment on it at the end of this post. I would love to hear what you have to say about it. The newer system of delivering the DIY bucket classifier instructions is working better. Much less spam coming in, too. This is a good thing.

Metals have all been down this week as the dollar stays up. How long this will last, no one can tell for sure, but many analysts are suggesting you have some of your investments in gold stocks and the actual metals, too. Some of them are saying you should have a lot. Silver is also, once again, being touted as the metal of choice as it is expected to jump up even higher than gold by percentage.

Gosh, I wish I had prospecting news to tell you. I mean, news about actual prospecting, but it has just been too nasty out to do much. We are starting to get testy around here without being able to get gold pans or metal detectors or anything out to find some gold. Days are filled with twitter information, the new prospecting community network, blogs and staring longingly out the window at snow and rain, and wishing we were away somewhere warm, sunny, and able to find gold. Alas, we did not even go to Arizona this year, saving all our time and money for the day Larry retires so we have what we will need until the payments kick in. (5 working days left! :>) If you are looking to retire soon, best you find a seminar to take about it sooner than later so you are kinda prepared. Lots to go through.

The work done at Point Bar should be completed by now and you should have some new dirt to play in. We are looking forward to Let’s Go Gold Panning Days in May and praying it doesn’t snow 3 feet like it did about 10 years ago. Hopefully we will have been out finding gold at least once before then, but who knows. It could snow into June this year. :>O In the mean time we are testing metal detectors, packing and repacking the truck, repairing equipment and waiting.

We attended the American Legion ceremony this past week honoring all the veterans from the post in Longmont that had died this past year. Larry's Dad belonged to the group having been a WWII vet. Very nice. Each family was presented with a certificate and then the list of names was burned. The youngest son is still looking for work and has now expanded his search to the Denver area and out of Greeley. Although he had a job in February, the company changed their phone script and expected them to lie to clients. He decided he could not do that and quit after a few days of it.

The new prospectors networking community at ning is keeping me busy. Blogging in two places has certainly been a challenge, but it has been fun these past few weeks. Met some very nice people there and looking forward to meeting some more. Are you finding gold? If so let us know. Post a comment at the bottom of this blog and tell us what you have found. Have fun out there and add to your stash of gold and coins.

You can find Panning Kits Here
Monthly Prospecting Equipment Specials HERE
Basic Prospecting Equipment

Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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HookedonGold Gazette 4/10/09

Isn't that a nice 'Easter' Egg?

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $880.80
· Spot price last Gazette: $893.80
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Calendar of Events

APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equipment Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
· 24-26 Denver Spring Mineral and Fossil Show

MAY
· 2-3 GPAA Denver Show
· 5th Cinco de Mayo
· 8, 9, & 10th Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar Recreational Area
· 23rd -25th Memorial Day Weekend Observed
· 30th Memorial Day
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NEWS

Happy Easter and Passover to All!

NEW! Prospecting Community Network! We have great group started with several already blogging and getting involved. You will be able to view the whole site for a few more weeks, and then only the main page. Check it out, and join up.

The BLM and GPOC are having some work done down at Point Bar fixing the coyote holes and uncovering some new area for you to play in. They should have the work completed this weekend. Don’t forget to join us there for Let’s Go Gold Panning Days May 8-10th.

Denver will host the first GPAA show they have had in three years on May 2nd and 3rd. A good time for all, and they give away some pretty nice door prizes. Lots to see here, a panning contest, and vendors of all sorts. $5.00 at the door gets a vial of gold to the first 100 through.

In the news the past few days were some interesting articles including one about the woman who sold those gold coins in a bank in Utah for face value. Here is the REST of the story .
Everyone knows how I love to talk about gold, but I found an article this past week about what silver might be ready to do and why it just might outstrip gold when all is said and done. Kitco was where I found this and you might want to check them out for information on metals. http://www.kitco.com/ind/Ruff/ruff_apr032009.html . Bullish on gold? Read this article for a nice take on why you just might be right. http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20090408/bs_prweb/prweb2282734_3 .

I have two more days before I can go out prospecting for gold. Lent will be over, and my pledge will be over and I can search for gold once again! Getting ready for Larry’s retirement, the website, the NEW website, the blog, and twitter has kept me busy, so the time has past quickly. I, however, have been too busy to keep the blog like I would like to or to make as many changes in the website as were needed. I will continue to work on the site pages, but some things will begin to slip through as prospecting season starts to heat up. Hey, a girl has to do, what a girl has to do! LOL!

Gold was absolutely flat today. I have never seen an open market day like this before. It was spooky.

Legislative stuff: S22 of the Omnibus Public Land Management was defeated, however it was resurrected and attached to HR146 by Senator Reid in the Senate and passed before debate or comment was made on it. Some 88,000 acres (if I remember the numbers correctly) have been put into some type of protected status since the first of the year. That is a HUGE percentage of our state that is now out of public use to the average man. The 500 MPH train wreck continues to barrel its’ way down the tracks without the ability for ANYONE to comment, debate, or change anything….the Dems simply pass a resolution to prohibit it. What do you suppose will happen when this train hits the bick wall? I'm thinkin' the swan dive over the cliff into the abyss could be spectacular. Just hope I'm NOT on board, know what I mean? LOL!

Although President Obama pledged to stop earmarks, these bills have contained over 8,500 earmarks that cannot be commented on or debated, leaving you, the taxpayer, in the dark. I suppose if he gets around to this by the end of his Presidency he can claim he stopped earmarking, but in the mean time he is signing everything that comes before him, even as he grandstands about what he isn’t going to allow.

That’s it for this week. Hope to see some of you at one of the events this summer. Don’t be shy, come on over and let me know who you are. I promise I won’t bite! Now, get out there and FIND SOME GOLD!

Panning Kits Here
Monthly Prospecting Equipment Specials HERE
Basic Prospecting Equipment

Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now OPEN TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until October 1st.
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HookedonGold Gazette 4/4/09

Blurry picture, but still enough for Tacos!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $893.80
· Spot price last Gazette: $923.10
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Calendar of Events
APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equip. Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
MAY
· 5th Cinco de Mayo
· 8, 9, & 10th Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar Recreational Area
· 23rd -25th Memorial Day Weekend Observed
· 30th Memorial Day
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NEWS

NEW! Prospecting Community Network! Site was updated this morning with a new template and color scheme. You will be able to view the whole site for a few more weeks, and then only the main page. Check it out, and join up.

You know how prospectors are….not too responsible when it comes to an opportunity to go prospecting and anything else that should get done. With snow on the way for today, and Larry with a day off, we decided to take the detectors out and do some more coin shooting. The MXT, of course, found 10 times what anyone else did, but getting out of the house and into the field was what we were really after. (And if you believe that, then I have some swamp land for sale in the Everglades). LOL! He came home this time with almost $3.00 in coins, as you can see from the photo. (I found a nickel! AND a pair of scissors)

Gold dropped to under $900 this week, as you can see from the top of the page. G20 talks, a DOW that was up and the talk of the IMF selling over 400 tonnes were some of the things at the heart of the drop. Lots of news floated around this past week about metals manipulation in the last quarter of ’08. Copper was up this past week, though, and analysts say the copper will lead the metals higher…..don’t know if this is a blip on the screen or a true breakout yet.

Oh, man! Can you feel Spring in the air and that itch to be out with a shovel, dredge, highbanker, or metal detector looking and finding gold? It is getting real hard to stay in the city while the snow piles up and we have to wait for it to melt in the high country. Fortunately, I have the new prospectors networking community to keep me busy. The site gives us so many opportunities to interact with other prospectors, AND you can get answers from a community instead of just me. Of course, Larry and I will be putting our two cents worth in, but there are so many others out there with information that do not have a platform from which to give their expertise. If you think the same people are joining this that are in other forums, then you would be wrong. While we will attract some of them, we personally know many prospectors who have never even considered joining such a group. Their knowledge is vast and they can certainly answer an array of questions with many points of view. Many we have personally prospected with for years.

Hope you are following my twitter updates that are posted in the lefthand sidebar. I twitter most days and even have some interesting information for you once in a while. I will be putting a twitter bar up on the website, too, probably near the bottom of the page. HTML for now until I have time to figure out the flash. Do hope you visit the new community site…..we love the new template! All for now.
Panning Kits Here
Monthly Prospecting Equipment Specials HERE
Basic Prospecting Equipment

Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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If you find a broken link, please let us know
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Gold Prices and Gold Prospecting

With world leaders seeming to be finding some common ground in banking this week at the G20 conference, it looks like gold is holding back a bit until we find out more about what the new agreements will mean. The selling off of more gold by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) is back on, and this could mean a rise or fall in gold depending on the mood of the market in general. Buyers could perceive this sell off as a buying opportunity, or they could decide that other investments are looking better now than in the near past. Several countries have also voiced their desire to move more of their capital back into gold, and so there is definitely demand, how much is uncertain. India did not buy gold from the market again in March, either.

The most sure sign that gold will rise could more probably be the return of inflation and a sliding dollar. This may not happen this year, but with all the money being printed around the world it is predicted to be a fact in the next year or so. When inflation is back with us, gold is positioned to rise.

So, in the mean time, you might want to get that gold prospecting equipment out and head to the hills, or wherever your favorite prospecting spot is and find yourself a little extra gold. Need a reference book to find another spot you heard about? Check out your equipment before you go, though, and make sure your pump, hoses and clamps are all working. (It's the pits when the clamps break!) Got all the screws in one place and ready to go? How about that special sized screwdriver you used for another project last winter and forgot to put back in the pack? Yeah, been there, done that! LOL! The trip to town to TRY and find another one was a real blast, too. While your at it, make sure you have all your permits up to date. You can find the forms to print off and send in for the Arkansas River drainage in Colorado and Cache Creek on this page of the BLM.gov site. Get out on some of those warm Colorado days and find some gold before we get out and find it! LOL!
Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley

Sunday Gold Musings

Good morning! Two things came up today I wanted to let you know about. First, is an interesting tid bit from the newspaper. It seems the police and a St. George, Utah bank are looking for a woman who brought 14 gold St. Gaudins coins into the bank to exchange for cash. They are estimated to be worth about $18,000 to $20,000 depending on year and condition. The woman received $280 for them as banks only deal in face value money. Needless to say, they are worth many times the cost of the groceries she had waiting for her in Wal-Mart, where they refused the coins in payment for the items.

The other is that Mt. Redoubt in Alaska erupted 2 more times on Saturday, sending ash 50,000 feet into the atmosphere again. I am wondering if volcanic eruptions are ever figured into the climate change figures that are supposed to be only for "man made" greenhouse gasses?

Off to visit with family today. We still have 7 inches of snow, so no metal detecting this weekend. :-(

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley

HookedonGold Gazette 3/27/09

That's Colorado Winter Gold! 15 inches of it, too

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $923.10
· Spot price last Gazette: $952.60
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Calendar of Events

MARCH
8th Daylight Savings Time begins in Colorado, Spring Forward!
11th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00p.m.
17th St. Patrick’s Day
20th Spring Equinox

APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equipment Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
MAY
· 5th Cinco de Mayo
· 8, 9, & 10th Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar Recreational Area
· 23rd -25th Memorial Day Weekend Observed
· 30th Memorial Day
_______________________________________
NEWS

NEW! Prospecting Community Network! Check it out.

Snow yesterday and today has kept me busy with the snow shovel and taking pictures. ;-) We did get out and do some metal detecting last Sunday and came home with about $2.00 worth of coins that I posted and blogged about on the new community site while I was on there doing administrative updates. You can visit to see what we were up to and to see the picture. I do hope you are following me on twitter. My screen name is Goldpanner2.

APRIL 1st! Yes, it’s April Fools day, but it is also the opening day for this seasons' motorized prospecting equipment use on the Arkansas River. That means on Wednesday you can take you highbanker or dredge out and play in the water. You WILL have to have your 2 year permit in place for that, and you can find the forms on the http://www.blm.gov/ site on their page about the Arkansas River bond, and scroll down past the picture of Woody to where you find the sentence in green about the form. Click on that and you will open a PDF file that you can save or print off to fill in and send off.

I have decided to take the panning tips form down and replace it with 5 pages including the 4 panning tips. Since the bucket classifier is something that needs some knowledge of what you are doing, I have put an e-mail link into the DIY Bucket Classifier to request the information, but it may pop under the page and you will need to drop the page down to fill it out and send it. Subject line is already filled in and all I need is a first name and the message will send me your e-mail address to send the info to. It has stopped the spammers dead in their tracks since I took it down yesterday. LOL!

So much gets reported on twitter, I’m not sure where I am this week. Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt has been erupting since Sunday, and yesterday sent ash 12 miles into the atmosphere. I’d like to see how that stacks up against the power plants that are supposed to be causing the “climate change” in the arctic. Oh, wait! I DO! Over one years’ of man’s pollutants cannot compare with one volcanic eruption of pollutants thrown into the UPPER atmosphere. I also saw a reminder about the volcano in South America that blew its’ top in the late 80’s. I remember how shortly after that one, scientists were worried about the ozone hole that then magically closed up in, what, ’92? But, man was supposedly be to blame for that one too.

We deal with wilderness, protected status, and roadless issues, but did you hear about the energy company that put up wind turbines to make power with, only to find out they could not cross an area of land in protected status to deliver the power to the grid? True story. DID see this one coming, though. Wind turbines and solar power panels have to be out in the middle of nowhere, but getting the power to the grid is a huge problem with rights of way over land.

OOPPS! Am I “off topic”? I warned you about winter and having to deal with not being out prospecting for gold. LOL! Eric, I AM jealous of your gold prospecting trek to Utah this last week during Spring Break. Hope you post pictures for all of us on the ning community site this next week. I did not have time to check my alerts for news with past week as the new ning site has had me pretty busy with set up. I’ll give you a blog or two this next week with what I find. In the mean time…..

Panning Kits Here
Monthly Prospecting Equipment Specials HERE
Basic Prospecting Equipment

Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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If you find a broken link, please let us know
THE ARKANSAS RIVER is now closed TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT until April 1st. That’s this Wed, folks
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New Prospecting Social Network Announcment

http://www.hookedongoldprospecting.ning.com is being launched this week. Come on over and see what we are doing. Non members are welcome to view pages, but you will have to be a member to post. Membership is free, and we plan to have a lively community to get informaton to yu.

HookedonGold Gazette 3/20.09

Deafult icon on the new community site

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $952.60
· Spot price last Gazette: $929.40
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Calendar of Events

MARCH
8th Daylight Savings Time begins in Colorado, Spring Forward!
11th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00p.m.
17th St. Patrick’s Day
20th Spring Equinox

APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equipment Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
MAY
· 5th Cinco de Mayo
· 8, 9, & 10th Let’s Go Gold Panning Days at Point Bar Recreational Area
· 23rd -25th Memorial Day Weekend Observed
· 30th Memorial Day
_______________________________________
NEWS

Under the gun today! The new social site for prospectors can be found at http://www.hookedongoldprospecting.ning.com You can see the pages, but you will have to become a member of this social site to ask questions or participate in discussions. Sign up is easy with first name, email and maybe a question or two. You will have to be approved for sign up so that we can weed out spammers like WoW gold. You will then be able to use the same name and email address to access the over 800,000 other social sites on ning. AWESOME resource, and I will probably link other prospecting ning sites to me as I go along. Hope you like the experience, and that we can get some useful information out to you. Good questions I get by email will be shared with the community, too. Give me your thoughts about this project and what you would like to see. I would REALLY like to know what you think of the template. Does it fit OK or should I use one with less? Can you read the type alright? How do you like the font of the letters? This totally changeable, and if there is any problem with what I have chosen, I can change it. The purpose is for it to be to YOUR liking since YOU read it. I can publish with anything. If you visit another social site and would like to see one of their apps, let me know and I’ll take a look at it. I like a clean site with lots of info, but there are many apps that might be appropriate.

So, I had no other blog postings again this week. I’ve been working on getting the ning site up and that has pretty much tied up all my extra time. I DO hope this new venture will be good for you, however, and it has been interesting setting it up.

All are awaiting the opening of the Arkansas River to motorized prospecting in 12 days. The weather has been wonderful on Point Bar, but everything up above Buena Vista still has some snow. B.V. might be OK some days after the 1st of April, but it can still be pretty chilly.

Here are some links I am repeating that I twittered about this past week include: “The Case for Inflation” by Howard Ruff on the dollar, stock market, gold and silver. If you didn’t read it yesterday, you might like to now. Very interesting what he has to say.
Another one was on India and how they are affecting gold prices by using scrap gold to fill their gold jewelry demand without importing gold. Gold coins are heating up and the U.S. mint has suspended the minting of gold and silver coins again due to the price of the metals. I’m thinkin’ that means those Buffalos and St. Gaudins are going to be worth a lot more….make SURE you get them slabbed by PCGS or Numismatics. Cost is around $40.00 per coin, but it can boost their value by a couple hundred or more. There are several lesser grading houses around that charge you less, but the standards are PCGS and Numismatic. They have been around a long time and grade better than the others, in my opinion. I’ve been burned by some of the others, ad coin dealers use PCGS and Numismatic grades on all coins. So if your coin says MS70 from another house, if it isn’t so with these two giants, your coin will NOT be worth MS70 prices. You get what you pay for in coin grading.


I am off to finish the set up at Ning. See you in the forum.


PLEASE BE ADVISED THE FORMS PAGE IS STILL NOT WORKING!!!!! It is posted on the page prominently in two places that it is not working, but every day I have someone try to send it to me and all I get is the email with no information attached to it. Please send me an email to either info@hookedongold.com or hookeongold@gmail.com and ask for the specific information you are wanting. I can send it to you that way, but not with the form. If I get this social site working, I’ll take the form page down as I can post the information on the social site.


Panning Kits Here
Monthly Specials HERE
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 April 1st.
_______________________________________
www.hookedongold.com
www.hookedongold2.com Metal Detectors at Auction
hookedongold@gmail.com contact us
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HookedonGold Gazette 3/13/09

I just like this one...It's IMPRESSIVE!
Didn't think I would get this out in time, but once I started, it flowed.....kinda like water over a fall! LOL!

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $929.40
· Spot price last Gazette: $938.40
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Calendar of Events

MARCH
8th Daylight Savings Time begins in Colorado, Spring Forward!
11th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00p.m.
17th St. Patrick’s Day
20th Spring Equinox

APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equipment Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
_______________________________________
NEWS

WOW! Today it has been a challenge to get off of twitter and facebook and get to the newsletter! Facebook has some new features and a new look, so I spent some time on it to get used to the new feel. And then there is twitter, with all the news flying around with the people I follow. If you aren’t on twitter, you are missing a great resource for information….but be warned; it can be addictive to read everything! LOL!

One of the new communication items I keep finding on the web can be found at ning.com. It is a website that allows you to set up a forum type social network for your niche. GPOC president, Eric Vesterby, suggested a website for me to look at, and I noticed it was set up with ning. I have seen several others in other niches set up with the same website, and so Eric and I thought it might be a good idea to set one up for Hooked on Gold. I’ll be working on that this next week. It has a very interesting array of options that I think you will like. Social networks are very hot for users right now, and I could get you information quicker AND answer questions quicker. You could also ask questions of others and get answers. There is also a chat room and various discussion boards, so I think this is going to be a good fit for us.

PLEASE BE ADVISED THE FORMS PAGE IS STILL NOT WORKING!!!!! It is posted on the page prominently in two places that it is not working, but every day I have someone try to send it to me and all I get is the email with no information attached to it. Please send me an email to either info@hookedongold.com or hookeongold@gmail.com and ask for the specific information you are wanting. I can send it to you that way, but not with the form. If I get this social site working, I’ll take the form page down as I can post the information on the social site.

FYI, I did buy a new emerald ring last weekend, but not to wear now. My friend Pedro Arevalo who owns and operates T.L.E. International was taking old inventory back to Colombia to rework, and one of the rings has a very sweet marquise cut emerald of fantastic quality with VS1 baguettes in it. I have really like the stones in the ring, but I have one that is styled similarly with a mandarine garnet. I asked how much he wanted for the stones and he gave me a very good price, so I bought the stones to rework into a wedding set later on.

Are you ready for motorized equipment prospecting season to begin on the Arkansas April 1st? Everyone I talk with is itching to begin. Point Bar has been busy already with all the warm weather we had a couple of weeks ago, and getting into the water early is on everyone’s mind. We can’t until after Easter, as that was what I gave up for Lent. Believe me, giving up early prospecting is a big sacrifice for me! We are making headway with retirement the end of April, too, and setting up things for the summer. So far, we will be forced to take a week off before then or lose the time and money for it, and we will need to readjust a loan we made that the rules changed on. No BIG shoes have dropped so far, although we continue to watch for one that will stop us for another year. So far, we do not foresee anything large enough for us to pull back, yet. It’s gonna be a GREAT summer!

I also heard from Eric that the claims that were placed below GPOC’s Prospector #3 last summer, North of Buena Vista, have been denied and the area is once again open to the public. The BLM was there last Fall to see the claimants break camp and leave. This is GREAT news for everyone!

I had one link this past week that might be interesting for you to check out. It’s entitled “Gold going down in favor of equities, and silver up?” http://www.safehaven.com/article-12794.htm I still see some who predict the gold ETF’s could figure prominently in the course of where gold heads. Inflation will also be a determining factor in the next few years, but the ETF’s hold a tremendous amount of vaulted gold and when those folks decide to start selling, it could put gold in a tailspin. Silver is in a similar position, but they don’t own the same percentage of known bullion that the gold ETF’s do. Probably won’t happen until we hyper inflate, though, so watch for them to start pulling out of their gold positions when they need dollars to pay the rent with. In the meantime, gold coins are beginning to rise nicely and are commanding about 20% to 30% or more over spot for AU 55 and better.

HR699 is still on a desk somewhere. GPOC has a information on what you can do to get a letter to your congressperson before it gets passed. Do not bother signing and sending on any type of petition that gets passed by e-mail. It is a waist of your time, as it just gets passed around. There is no way for anyone to retrieve all those signature and send it anywhere, much less expect that anyone would even look at or consider such a petition that was received by a representative, as all of the names could be trumped up. Come on people…..use your heads. Where does it say in these emails how it will EVER get delivered, to whom, and WHEN? If you want to say anything to your representatives, you have to do it YOURSELF! You can find more information on this at http://www.gpoc.com .

Lots more going on, but I’ll have to blog it later this week. Happy Birthday today to my youngest grandson who is turning 2 years old!!! Have a happy Friday the 13th, everyone. I’m outta here.

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Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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HookedonGold Gazzette 3/07/09

OOOOH Emeralds in 18K Gold

· Gold Spot Closing Price for Friday: $938.40
· Spot price last Gazette: $939.60
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Calendar of Events
MARCH
8th Daylight Savings Time begins in Colorado, Spring Forward!
11th GPOC Regular Meeting 7:00p.m.
17th St. Patrick’s Day
20th Spring Equinox

APRIL
· 1st April Fools Day, Motorized Equipment Opening Day on Arkansas River
· 10th Good Friday
· 12th Easter
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NEWS

Short Newsletter today as I am in the booth selling Emeralds for the weekend. I have a couple of links for you. The first one is about the proposed changes to the mining law that will affect you. http://www.icmj.com/article.php?id=56&keywords=Rahall_Proposes_Bill_to_End_All_Mining_in_the_U.S. HR 699 Mining law proposal
As proposed now, anything over panning or hand sluicing would no longer be considered “casual”, and will be subjected to additional regulations, bonding, and plans of operation whether on your own claim, someone else’s, or open areas. Remember, this is not passed yet, but proposed and still in committee. If you have an opinion about it, you should contact your representatives in the congress and let them know what you would like tem to do.

Here is a link to a page that gives a good explanation of the difference between owning physical gold and one of the ETF’s or gold owned on paper. http://www.sprott.com/pdf/marketsataglance/MAAG.pdf

PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO GET INFORMATION OFF OF THE PANNING TIPS AND BUCKET CLASSIFIER PAGE. The page is still not working and I will have to find the path I have not included in it before it will. I did not build the last one, so I have to do some trial and error to get it to work. Requests are coming in daily, but the e-mail address you send me and the information you want is not coming in with the email. I have a broken link somewhere I have to find. Thanks for your patience.

Well, that’s it for me. I have a reader who sent me some information on Jefferson County open space rules on prospecting, so I will be getting that up on the proper page this next week. Much easier to do than the form. LOL! Have a great weekend and a great week!

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Until next week…….

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley (MQS)
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If you find a broken link, please let us know
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I know I have had way too much going on in my life when my e-mail goes down, and I don't even realise it.....for months. I got to thinking this past week that it seemed like a long time since I had gotten any e-mail. Now, mail IS slow during the winter, but...not THIS slow.

I decided early this morning to check out my cPanel and see what was going on, since I woke up very early and could not sleep. (High pressure systems do that to me. Make me bright eyed and bushy tailed! :=) All I could find was the possibility that the mailbox was overloaded, but there were not THAT many e-mails in the delivered box. I emptied it and reconfigured the mail and it is working again.

I cannot tell you how sorry I am if you have asked for information and not gotten it! Try again. In the mean time, I will be setting up a different account in gmail to handle this, as this is the second time in less than a year I have had trouble with email with the server. I use gmail for other things, and it works ALL THE TIME! For the next week or so, I will continue with the present account, but I will be changing the email address real soon. The first place you will find it is on the information submission page. After that, each website page that has it on it will have to be changed and republished, along with the email and tags at the bottom of all pages on the blog. Bear with me, and please ask for information again. I'm not ignoring you...I'm not getting the requests. Answering your questions and sending you information is one of the things I enjoy the most, so please send in those "cards and letters".

This winter has been awfully stressful. We have had a close family member pass away under stressful conditions, a son who went to the Philippines and was sent back home and fired over a blog posting, the joy and loss of a grandchild as our daughter-in-law miscarried her second child. Along with all of that we had the holidays to get through, too. It was a strange end to '08 for us and '09 has not been very much better so far. Happily, prospecting season is almost here and things for the family in general are looking up!

Good Prospecting to You
Shirley