November 17, 2006
Question of the Week: http://www.hookedongold.com/custformnew258670.html
CONGRATULATIONS TO : GLENN for being the first correct qualified answer to this week’s question! Take a look at the answer if you haven’t been onsite to see it yet.
NEW GOLD PIECES HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE SITE THIS PAST WEEK. Look for their announcement and a description of the special piece near the bottom of the newsletter.
www.hookedongold.blogspot.com will be carrying extra information that you may be interested in. It will fill the gap for us until we can add more pages to the main website. Also, we will be posting the Friday newsletters later in the week for you to view.
CHRISTMAS TIME IS FOR KIDS……..Young and old. HobbyTron has a selection of “toys” for all ages. R.C. cars, helicopters, boats, you name it, Airguns, Robots, Kits. Check them out by clicking on the link below! You won’t believe what they have for you. There will be money off coupons on the website you can use towards your purchases and shipping in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
HobbyTron.com Blow Out Specials - Up to 60% Off (Limited quantities)
GPOC Temporary Page is at:
http://www.hookedongold.com/new263863.html
I have a couple of link partners that I would like to tell you about for Christmas. Both of these sites have items that the prospector in your life would love to have.
www.colorado-trails.com which has several media items on Spanish trails and signs in the Southwest that can lead to old Spanish mines, and
www.historicmapsrestored.com which reproduces historic maps, many of which have never been reproduced before, from around the U.S. Check out their wide selection of maps today. P.S. they are not affiliate sites, just good folks with items of interest to you.
If you find a broken link PLEASE LET US KNOW so we can fix it.
Well, as soon as these two announcements left this page, we had some new people tell us they wanted to prospect on Clear Creek in Wheatridge, so back up it goes. Fortunately, we got to tell them before the cops did. LOL! I have a couple of announcements about Clear Creek as it runs through Wheatridge, and also about Boulder County. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT you cannot use ANY type of equipment on the river in Wheatridge. You WILL have your equipment confiscated and you will be ticketed, even if you are only using a finish pan.
Also, prospecting is still being allowed in Boulder County, BUT ONLY ON FEDERAL LAND. If you are caught using any equipment anywhere else you will be fined and your equipment will be confiscated, even if you are only using a finish pan.
If you are coming off the river with lots of black sand and you have never found a way to separate it fast and easily, then it is time to get your mini sluice concentrate separator. You can find it at: http://www.hookedongold.com/catalog244861.html
It comes complete with adjustable legs, pump, hopper, hose and the mini sluice. It will separate black sand faster and more easily for you than anything else we have used, and at an affordable price. Works GREAT with the blue bowl for separating instead of screening before you do your last separation with the bowl.
Anyone interested in getting a continuing gold quote streamer on your computer taskbar can go to www.kitco.com and look for the little Kcast blue and gold banner near the top of the page. It isn’t always there, but if you refresh the page a few times it should pop up. I haven’t seen it on their page for a long time, but I’m glad it’s there now. I was able to put it on the taskbar of the laptop last night so I can see what the price is anytime I am online.
EVERYBODY LOVES gold! The larger nuggets we promised are posted for you to consider for gift giving and collecting. One piece of particular interest is a bailed pendant of California gold. The 2 lb. bags of Colorado dredge concentrate with Colorado gold on the gold page are waiting for you to get cleaned up. Look for “Madam, Queen Shirley’s Magic Black Sand Panning Concentrates”. Make your gold pan Magically turn yellow. Colorado Concentrates, Colorado GOLD! Comes with our Black Sand Separation panning tips. GOLD AND CONCENTRATES ARE AT:
http://www.hookedongold.com/catalog244888.html GET ONE……GET TWO for double the fun! [Just added to the panning concentrates: While we are cleaning some of the ore pieces we find, some of it falls off and is too small to do anything with, so we are adding a piece or two of the wires, flakes or crystal pieces to the bags. You may find them clean, or with ore still attached that is black, quartz, or red. Some pieces may be larger than the other sands, too.]
THE ARKANSAS RIVER WILL BE CLOSED TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT FOR THE WINTER UNTIL APRIL 1st, 2007. The river will still open for panning, sluicing, and dry washing.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING! Now is the time to look for all those things you want Santa to bring you so you can put it on your list.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE! May your day with family and friends be extra special. Until next week,
Good Prospecting to You,
Larry and Shirley Weilnau
www.hookedongold.com
www.hookedongold2.com A COOL little website!
hookedongold@msn.com
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Gold weights and equivalents and Karat fine
I have had several requests for a more expanded weights table for gold so that you can convert the values more easily. This table shows gold's specific gravity to be 19.3, but you can find any number of resources that will quote it as 19.1, also. The conversion of gold troy weights to gold auvoidupois can be very confusing and this table should help you do that more easily. An ounce in ordinary weights is about 2 Tablespoons. Also included is the Karat system of purity for gold usually used in jewelry, but also used in raw gold weight to determine price according to what impurities are running with the gold. You know, that nasty stuff like silver, copper and lead.
Gold
• The chemical symbol for gold is Au.
• Gold’s atomic number is 79 and its atomic weight
is 196.967.
• Gold melts at 1064.43° Centigrade
• The specific gravity of gold is 19.3, meaning gold
weighs 19.3 times more than an equal volume of
water.
··········
WEIGHT EQUIVALENTS
1 troy ounce = 480 grains
1 troy ounce = 31.1 grams
15.1 grains = 1 gram
1 gram = .03215 troy ounces
1000 troy ounces = 31.3 kilograms
1 kilogram = 32.15 troy ounces
1 tonne = 32.150 troy ounces
1 ordinary ounce = .9115 troy ounces
1 ordinary pound = 14.58 troy ounces
··········
Percent Gold = European System = Karat System
(the Karat system = purity
the carat system = gem weight)
100 % = 1000 fine = 24 karat
91.7 % = 917 fine = 22 karat
75.0 % = 750 fine = 18 karat
58.5 % = 585 fine = 14 karat
41.6 % = 416 fine = 10 karat
Gold
• The chemical symbol for gold is Au.
• Gold’s atomic number is 79 and its atomic weight
is 196.967.
• Gold melts at 1064.43° Centigrade
• The specific gravity of gold is 19.3, meaning gold
weighs 19.3 times more than an equal volume of
water.
··········
WEIGHT EQUIVALENTS
1 troy ounce = 480 grains
1 troy ounce = 31.1 grams
15.1 grains = 1 gram
1 gram = .03215 troy ounces
1000 troy ounces = 31.3 kilograms
1 kilogram = 32.15 troy ounces
1 tonne = 32.150 troy ounces
1 ordinary ounce = .9115 troy ounces
1 ordinary pound = 14.58 troy ounces
··········
Percent Gold = European System = Karat System
(the Karat system = purity
the carat system = gem weight)
100 % = 1000 fine = 24 karat
91.7 % = 917 fine = 22 karat
75.0 % = 750 fine = 18 karat
58.5 % = 585 fine = 14 karat
41.6 % = 416 fine = 10 karat
Monday, November 06, 2006
November 3, 2006 Newsletter
For your convenience, we are adding our weekly Friday newsletter to the blogspot. Those of you who have trouble getting it, can view it here each Monday in one of our public spaces.
HOOKED ON GOLD NEWSLETTER
November 3, 2006
Question of the Week: http://www.hookedongold.com/custformnew258670.html
CONGRATULATIONS TO : Aaron for being the first correct qualified answer to this week’s question! Take a look at the answer if you haven’t been onsite to see it yet.
GPOC Temporary Page is at: http//:www.hookedongold.com/new263863.htlm Larry Weilnau will be doing a presentation on what steps to take to find a spot that you can run your metal detector on (this works with any type of prospecting as well), what gold sounds like, and what to expect when you think you have found it, at the November 8th GPOC meeting.
I have a couple of link partners that might have some interesting things for you to look at for Christmas. We are not affilites, so we do't get anything for promoting them, but they are great folks with great products.
www.colorado-trails.com which has several media items on Spanish trails and signs in the Southwest, and
http://www.historicmapsrestored.com/ which reproduces historic maps, many of which have never been reproduced before from around the U.S. Check out their wide selection of maps today.
REMEMBER TO VOTE! Even if you are a Tory or a Whig.
This winter we want to give you some excerpts of articles we find or ideas and conversations we have with others that might be of interest to you. This week we are looking at the International California Mining Journal which often follows legislation around the U.S. This month there is the third part of a story on how to find a metal detecting site….you know researching and such. Well, to make a long story short this fellow researched and found an old site for a prospecting group, whose members didn’t find much ‘cause they didn’t search much, and didn’t like the rough road or the rough terrain and decided not to use it. The man and his companions filed on it, worked it, FOUND the gold…..a LOT of it, and when they were finished with it, offered it to the prospecting group, who took them up on it and then found even MORE gold, although no one yet has taken anything as big as the original group did. If you do not read this magazine, you might want to pick a copy up from your local prospecting shop or get your own subscription at http://www.icmj.com/ another great gift idea.
CHECK OUT OUR NEW COOL LITTLE e-BAY WEBSITE www.hookedongold2.com. We have gold nuggets listed on the home page, but you can use the eBay search bar to find whatever you want. It also has a tool you can use to look for misspelled words in your searches, or sign up for an e-Bay account right from the page. A link back to Hooked on Gold is on the links page or you can use your back button. HAVE FUN with this page. It really is COOL!
There is a NEW CHAPTER OF GPAA that has been started in the Colorado Springs area. They are meeting the first Wed. of the month in the Toyota dealership. HookedonGold has put up schedules and details for them on the events page.
HMMMMM Paypal is tougher to integrate then they lead you to believe.
If you find a broken link PLEASE LET US KNOW so we can fix it.
NEW for you. If you are interested in purchasing gold or some of the poop tube items with a check instead of a credit card, as a newsletter recipient you may e-mail us with your request, and we will save the item(s) for you until 10 days after we receive the check so it clears, and then ship or deliver to you. An invoice would be sent via e-mail with your shipping options so you would know how much to send and the address. We thought some of you might appreciate the extra service. Also, we can deliver anything that is ours on the catalog pages to anyone attending the GPOC or GPR club meetings.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: Some of the items in the catalog are drop shipped. Regardless of what their copy says, delivery can take 2 to 4 weeks. We have no control over this, but we will attempt to assist you if you have a problem with delivery.
I have a couple of new announcements about Clear Creek as it runs through Wheatridge, and also about Boulder County. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT you cannot use ANY type of equipment on the river in Wheatridge. You WILL have your equipment confiscated and you will be ticketed, even if you are only using a finish pan. We had this announcement most of the summer in this newsletter, and as soon as we took it down, a new reader did not get the message and had planned on panning in this area. Luckily, we were able to get the info to them BEFORE they got told by the cops.
Also, prospecting is still being allowed in Boulder County, BUT ONLY ON FEDERAL LAND. If you are caught using any equipment anywhere else you will be fined and your equipment will be confiscated, even if you are only using a finish pan.
If you are coming off the river with lots of black sand and you have never found a way to separate it fast and easily, then it is time to get your mini sluice concentrate separator. You can find it at: http://www.hookedongold.com/catalog244861.html
It comes complete with adjustable legs, pump, hopper, hose and the mini sluice. It will separate black sand faster and more easily for you than anything else we have used, and at an affordable price. Works GREAT with the blue bowl for separating instead of screening before you do your last separation with the bowl.
Anyone interested in getting a continuing gold quote streamer on your computer taskbar can go to http://www.kitco.com/ and look for the little Kcast blue and gold banner near the top of the page. It isn’t always there, but if you refresh the page a few times it should pop up. I haven’t seen it on their page for a long time, but I’m glad it’s there now. I was able to put it on the taskbar of the laptop last night so I can see what the price is anytime I am online.
EVERYBODY LOVES gold! We have added 2 lb. bags of Colorado dredge concentrate with Colorado gold to the gold page. Look for “Madam, Queen Shirley’s Magic Black Sand Panning Concentrates”. Make your gold pan Magically turn yellow. Colorado Concentrates, Colorado GOLD! Comes with our Black Sand Separation panning tips.
http://www.hookedongold.com/catalog244888.html Just added to the panning concentrates: While we are cleaning some of the ore pieces we find, some of it falls off and is too small to do anything with, so we are adding a piece or two of the wires, flakes or crystal pieces to the bags. You may find them clean, or with ore still attached that is black, quartz, or red. Some pieces may be larger than the other sands, too. Thinking of that special gift for Christmas? One of our gold pieces would make a wonderful gift for that special guy or gal. CHRISTMAS IS COMING…….THIS MAKES A TERRIFIC GIFT FOR YOUR FAVORITE PROSPECTOR. Get one…get TWO for double the fun.
THE ARKANSAS RIVER WILL BE CLOSED TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT FOR THE WINTER UNTIL APRIL 1st, 2007. The river will still open for panning, sluicing, and dry washing.
Thanks to everyone who has supported our affiliates this past year. Hopefully, you have found some good information and products from them. CHRISTMAS IS COMING! Now is the time to look for all those things you want Santa to bring you so you can put it on your list.
Until next week,
Good Prospecting to You,
Larry and Shirley Weilnau
http://www.hookedongold.com/
http://www.hookedongold2.com/ A COOL little website!
hookedongold@msn.com
HOOKED ON GOLD NEWSLETTER
November 3, 2006
Question of the Week: http://www.hookedongold.com/custformnew258670.html
CONGRATULATIONS TO : Aaron for being the first correct qualified answer to this week’s question! Take a look at the answer if you haven’t been onsite to see it yet.
GPOC Temporary Page is at: http//:www.hookedongold.com/new263863.htlm Larry Weilnau will be doing a presentation on what steps to take to find a spot that you can run your metal detector on (this works with any type of prospecting as well), what gold sounds like, and what to expect when you think you have found it, at the November 8th GPOC meeting.
I have a couple of link partners that might have some interesting things for you to look at for Christmas. We are not affilites, so we do't get anything for promoting them, but they are great folks with great products.
www.colorado-trails.com which has several media items on Spanish trails and signs in the Southwest, and
http://www.historicmapsrestored.com/ which reproduces historic maps, many of which have never been reproduced before from around the U.S. Check out their wide selection of maps today.
REMEMBER TO VOTE! Even if you are a Tory or a Whig.
This winter we want to give you some excerpts of articles we find or ideas and conversations we have with others that might be of interest to you. This week we are looking at the International California Mining Journal which often follows legislation around the U.S. This month there is the third part of a story on how to find a metal detecting site….you know researching and such. Well, to make a long story short this fellow researched and found an old site for a prospecting group, whose members didn’t find much ‘cause they didn’t search much, and didn’t like the rough road or the rough terrain and decided not to use it. The man and his companions filed on it, worked it, FOUND the gold…..a LOT of it, and when they were finished with it, offered it to the prospecting group, who took them up on it and then found even MORE gold, although no one yet has taken anything as big as the original group did. If you do not read this magazine, you might want to pick a copy up from your local prospecting shop or get your own subscription at http://www.icmj.com/ another great gift idea.
CHECK OUT OUR NEW COOL LITTLE e-BAY WEBSITE www.hookedongold2.com. We have gold nuggets listed on the home page, but you can use the eBay search bar to find whatever you want. It also has a tool you can use to look for misspelled words in your searches, or sign up for an e-Bay account right from the page. A link back to Hooked on Gold is on the links page or you can use your back button. HAVE FUN with this page. It really is COOL!
There is a NEW CHAPTER OF GPAA that has been started in the Colorado Springs area. They are meeting the first Wed. of the month in the Toyota dealership. HookedonGold has put up schedules and details for them on the events page.
HMMMMM Paypal is tougher to integrate then they lead you to believe.
If you find a broken link PLEASE LET US KNOW so we can fix it.
NEW for you. If you are interested in purchasing gold or some of the poop tube items with a check instead of a credit card, as a newsletter recipient you may e-mail us with your request, and we will save the item(s) for you until 10 days after we receive the check so it clears, and then ship or deliver to you. An invoice would be sent via e-mail with your shipping options so you would know how much to send and the address. We thought some of you might appreciate the extra service. Also, we can deliver anything that is ours on the catalog pages to anyone attending the GPOC or GPR club meetings.
PLEASE BE ADVISED: Some of the items in the catalog are drop shipped. Regardless of what their copy says, delivery can take 2 to 4 weeks. We have no control over this, but we will attempt to assist you if you have a problem with delivery.
I have a couple of new announcements about Clear Creek as it runs through Wheatridge, and also about Boulder County. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT you cannot use ANY type of equipment on the river in Wheatridge. You WILL have your equipment confiscated and you will be ticketed, even if you are only using a finish pan. We had this announcement most of the summer in this newsletter, and as soon as we took it down, a new reader did not get the message and had planned on panning in this area. Luckily, we were able to get the info to them BEFORE they got told by the cops.
Also, prospecting is still being allowed in Boulder County, BUT ONLY ON FEDERAL LAND. If you are caught using any equipment anywhere else you will be fined and your equipment will be confiscated, even if you are only using a finish pan.
If you are coming off the river with lots of black sand and you have never found a way to separate it fast and easily, then it is time to get your mini sluice concentrate separator. You can find it at: http://www.hookedongold.com/catalog244861.html
It comes complete with adjustable legs, pump, hopper, hose and the mini sluice. It will separate black sand faster and more easily for you than anything else we have used, and at an affordable price. Works GREAT with the blue bowl for separating instead of screening before you do your last separation with the bowl.
Anyone interested in getting a continuing gold quote streamer on your computer taskbar can go to http://www.kitco.com/ and look for the little Kcast blue and gold banner near the top of the page. It isn’t always there, but if you refresh the page a few times it should pop up. I haven’t seen it on their page for a long time, but I’m glad it’s there now. I was able to put it on the taskbar of the laptop last night so I can see what the price is anytime I am online.
EVERYBODY LOVES gold! We have added 2 lb. bags of Colorado dredge concentrate with Colorado gold to the gold page. Look for “Madam, Queen Shirley’s Magic Black Sand Panning Concentrates”. Make your gold pan Magically turn yellow. Colorado Concentrates, Colorado GOLD! Comes with our Black Sand Separation panning tips.
http://www.hookedongold.com/catalog244888.html Just added to the panning concentrates: While we are cleaning some of the ore pieces we find, some of it falls off and is too small to do anything with, so we are adding a piece or two of the wires, flakes or crystal pieces to the bags. You may find them clean, or with ore still attached that is black, quartz, or red. Some pieces may be larger than the other sands, too. Thinking of that special gift for Christmas? One of our gold pieces would make a wonderful gift for that special guy or gal. CHRISTMAS IS COMING…….THIS MAKES A TERRIFIC GIFT FOR YOUR FAVORITE PROSPECTOR. Get one…get TWO for double the fun.
THE ARKANSAS RIVER WILL BE CLOSED TO MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT FOR THE WINTER UNTIL APRIL 1st, 2007. The river will still open for panning, sluicing, and dry washing.
Thanks to everyone who has supported our affiliates this past year. Hopefully, you have found some good information and products from them. CHRISTMAS IS COMING! Now is the time to look for all those things you want Santa to bring you so you can put it on your list.
Until next week,
Good Prospecting to You,
Larry and Shirley Weilnau
http://www.hookedongold.com/
http://www.hookedongold2.com/ A COOL little website!
hookedongold@msn.com
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Gold Up
Whoa! It certainly has been a busy Fall. WAY too much going on. GPOC has had their claim posts put in place on their newest gold placer claim, Prospector three, and there have been no additional problems in B.V. But, then the motorized season is over. However, those that were down there before it was, did not report any harrassment.
ARE YOU WATCHING GOLD? It has reached its' breakout price and is moving steadily higher. Did ya buy any at 560? Higher gold means a weakening dollar, and it looks like some of those banks that have been dumping gold are now looking to buy it back. The supply simply will not keep up with the demand in India, where gold is treasured and hoarded. We all know how the Chinese feel about gold, having gleaned every speck possible out of every placer operation they touched around the world. Anybody looked at the prospects for the Pebble discovery in Alaska? Northern Dynasty is trying to bring that one to full production. I think Rio Tinto has a hand in it, if I remember correctly. Hope you are ready to dig in and find some gold this next season, or head for warmer climates this winter for some of the yellow stuf. Me, I'll be headed for Arizona around the end of January while the snakes are still asleep, or at least groggy. LOL!
ARE YOU WATCHING GOLD? It has reached its' breakout price and is moving steadily higher. Did ya buy any at 560? Higher gold means a weakening dollar, and it looks like some of those banks that have been dumping gold are now looking to buy it back. The supply simply will not keep up with the demand in India, where gold is treasured and hoarded. We all know how the Chinese feel about gold, having gleaned every speck possible out of every placer operation they touched around the world. Anybody looked at the prospects for the Pebble discovery in Alaska? Northern Dynasty is trying to bring that one to full production. I think Rio Tinto has a hand in it, if I remember correctly. Hope you are ready to dig in and find some gold this next season, or head for warmer climates this winter for some of the yellow stuf. Me, I'll be headed for Arizona around the end of January while the snakes are still asleep, or at least groggy. LOL!
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