January 2014 NUPA Newsletter

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NUPA NUGGETS

In This Issue

Pres message

Treasurers report

Winners

How to pan for

gold

Ads

Calendar

Next Meeting, January 22, 2014

Presidents Message

Hello all,Hope everyone's Holidays where happy and full of lots

of good eats.Just want to Thank everybody for the opportunity of be-

ing the club president for the year.

I really enjoyed being able to get to know members on

a little more personal note being in office, nice bunch offolks, looking forward togoing on some outings withyou this year.Best of luck to the new board that will be coming in for

2014. I will be turning over my reins at the meeting on

January 22nd and have not scheduled a speaker so that

the new board may be greeted by you all and let you

know what plans they may have for the up coming year.Wish you all lots of luck for the coming year.

May your pans smile back at ya

Mike

Northern Utah Prospectors Association January 2014

Gold: $1,249.70

Silver: $20.14

As of January, 10, 2014


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Officers

2014

President

Kim Patterson801-393-2132

[email protected]

1st Vice President

Curtis Roche435-723-9663

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2nd Vice President

Bob Shriber801-726-4824

Newsletter

Rich Roper801-725-0727

[email protected]

Secretary/Treasurer

Sheri Gaddis

801-510

-2657

[email protected]

Parliamentarian

Dave DeHeer

Claims Director

Lonnie Fausett

Members at Large

Leo & Donale Richan

Hal & Lynda Berry

Alan Meyer

Curt Dayton

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Treasurers Report Dec, 2013

Checking Savings

Dec 13 Balance $ 1252.09 Dec 13 Balance $ 5076.33

Winners

White Ticket: (Door Prize)

Magnifier Mike KozMini Pick Jeremy RichineSquare Lynda HadleyClassifier Bob ShriberPick Bob Shriber

Pocket Scale Bob ShriberNugget Brian Boley

Nugget James PavelkaNugget Kelly Taylor

Door prize (white ticket) winners are asked to bring refreshments

to the next meeting and are reimbursed with a receipt.

Blue Ticket: (Raffle)

Quarterly Nugget Sandra PavelkaChristmas Nugget Paul SillcoxChristmas Nugget Sheila Hopkins

Christmas Nugget Colin Kendell

Christmas Nugget Martina John

Christmas Nugget Frank Kuba

Christmas Nugget Kelly Taylor

For the Christmas gifts, everyone at the party received a $25.00

gift certificate to the NUPA store, we will have several items add-

ed to that inventory. If you dont see something that you want

then talk to Sheri Gaddis (Secretary/Treasurer) and the $25.00

can be put towards an order from JOBE.


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Membership

Dues

Membership dues are from January

through December. Anyone joining

after October 1 will be considered a

paid member through the next

calendar year.

New membership $40.00

Renewal $30.00

Mailed Newsletter $5.00

E-mail copies of the newsletter are

included as part of membership.

Mailed newsletters add $5.00 to

renewal to help defray cost of postage

and printing.

You will have an opportunity to

choose your newsletter delivery

preference when you renew your

membership.

The gold pan is most commonly used to locate a richer paying area by sampling,so

that larger production equipment can be brought into that location to work the ground to

recover more gold.

Panning gold is basically simple, once you realize that you are doing the same thingthat the river does when it causes gold to concentrate and deposit during flood storms.The process basically consists of placing the material that you want to process intoyour pan and shaking it in a left to right motion underwater to cause the gold, which isheavy, to work its way down toward the bottom of your pan. At the same time, the light-er materials, which are worthless, are worked up to the surface of the gold pan wherethey can be swept away. The process of shaking and sweeping is repeated until onlythe heaviest of materials are left-namely the gold and heaviest black sand.

Once you are out in the field, you will notice that no two people pan gold exactly alike.

After you have been at it awhile, you will develop your own little twists and shakes toaccomplish the proper result.

Here follows a basic gold panning procedure to start off with which works well and iseasy to learn:

STEP 1:Once you have located some gravel that you want to sample, place it in your

gold pan-filling it about 3/4 of the way to the top. After you have been at it awhile, you

can fill your pan to the top without losing any gold. While placing material in your pan,

pick out the larger-sized rocks, so that you can get more of the smaller material and

gold into the pan.

STEP 2:Choose a spot to do your panning. It is best to pick a location where the water

is at least six inches deep and preferably flowing just enough to sweep away any siltywater that may be washed from your pan. This way, you can see what you are doingbetter. You do not want the water moving so swiftly that it will upset your panning ac-tions. A mild current will do, if available.

It is always best to find a spot where theres a rock or log or stream -bank or somethingthat you can sit down upon while panning. You can pan effectively while squatting,kneeling or bending over, but it does get tiresome. If you are planning to process morethan just one or two pans, sitting down will make the activity much more pleasant.

STEP 3:Carry the pan over to your determined spot and submerge it underwater.

The main thing to remember about the use of a gold pan is that while it is very effectiveas a gold-catching device, it can only process a limited volume of streambed material.For this reason, the gold pan is normally not used as a production tool in commercialuse, other than in the most remote locations where it would be very difficult to haullarge pieces of equipment, and where there is only a small amount of streambed mate-rial present which is paying well enough to make the panning worthwhile.

Gold Panning Procedure

How to Pan for Gold

By Dave McCracken The Gold Pan as a Production Tool
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STEP 4:Use your fingers to knead the contents of the pan to break it up fully and cause all of the material to become saturated withwater. This is the time to work apart all the clay, dirt, roots, moss and such with your fingers to ensure that all the materials are fullybroken up and in a liquid state of suspension within the pan.

The pan should be underwater while doing this. Mud and silt will float up and out. Do not concern yourself about losing any gold

when this happens. Remember: gold is heavy and will sink deeper in your pan while these lighter materials are floating out and

away.

STEP 5:After the entire contents of the pan have been thoroughly broken up, take the pan in your hands (with cheater riffles on thefar side of the pan) and shake it, using a vigorous left and right motion just under the surface of the water. This action will help tobreak up the contents of the pan even more and will also start to work the heavier materials downwards in the pan while the lightermaterials will start to surface.

Be careful not to get so vigorous in your left and right shaking that you slosh material out of the pan during this step. Depending upon

the consistency of the material that you are working, it may be necessary to alternate doing steps four and five over again a few

times to get all of the pans contents into a liquid state of suspension. It is this same liquid state of suspension that allows the heavier

materials to sink in the pan while the lighter materials emerge to the surface.

STEP 6:As the shaking action causes rocks to rise up to the surface, sweep them out of the pan using your fingers or the side of

your hand. Just sweep off the top layer of rocks which have worked their way up to the pans surface.

Dont worry about losing gold while doing this, because the same action which has brought the lighter rocks to the surface will haveworked the gold deeper down toward the bottom of the pan.

When picking the larger rocks out of the pan, make sure that they are clean of clay and other particles before you toss them out. Claysometimes contains pieces of gold and also has a tendency to grab onto the gold in your pan.

Note:Working the raw material through a classification screen into the gold pan during Step 1 or Step 3 will eliminate the need to

sweep out larger rocks in Step 6. This will also allow you to pan a larger sample of the finer-sized material (which contains all the

gold you will find in a pan sample).

STEP 7:Continue to do steps five and six, shaking the pan and sweeping out the rocks and pebbles (if present), until most of themedium-sized material is out of your pan.

STEP 8:Tilt the forward edge of your pan downward slightly to bring the forward-bottom edge of the pan to a lower position. With the

pan tilted forward, shake it back and forth using the same left and right motion. Be careful not to tilt the pan forward so much that any

material is spilled over the forward-edge while shaking.

This tilted shaking action causes the gold to start working its way down to the pans forward -bottom edge, and continues to work thelighter materials to the surface where they will be more easily swept off.

STEP 9:Carefully, by using a forward and backward movement, or a slight circular motion just below the surface of the water, allowthe water to sweep the top layer of worthless, lighter materials out of the pan. Only allow the water to sweep out a little at a time,while watching closely for the heavier materials to be uncovered as the lighter materials are swept out. It takes some judgment in thisstep to determine just how much material to sweep off before having to shake again so that no gold is lost. It will just take a littlepractice in panning gold before you will begin to see the difference between the lighter materials and the heavier materials in yourpan. You will develop a feel for knowing how much material can be safely swept out before re -shaking is necessary. When you arefirst starting, it is best to re-shake as often as you feel that it is needed to prevent losing any gold. When in doubt, shake! There are afew factors which can be pointed out to help you with this. Heavier materials are usually

darker in color than the lighter materials. You will notice while shaking the pan that it is the lighter-colored materials that are vibrating

on the surface. You will also notice that as the lighter materials are swept out of the pan, the darker-colored materials are uncovered.

Materials tend to get darker (and heavier) as you work your way down toward the bottom of the pan, where the darkest and heaviestmaterials will be found, they being the purple and black sands, which are usually minerals of the iron family. The exception to this isgold, which is heaviest of all. Gold usually is of a bright and shiny metallic color and shows out well in contrast to the other heaviermaterials at the bottom of the gold pan.

One other factor to keep in mind is that the lighter materials sweep out of your pan more easily than do the heavier materials. As theheavier materials are uncovered, they are increasingly more resistant to being swept out of the pan, and will give you an indication ofwhen it is time to re-shake.
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STEP 10:Once the top layer of lighter material is washed out of your pan, re-shake to bring more lighter materials to the top. By lighter marials, I mean in comparison to the other materials. If you continue to shake the lighter materials to the top and sweep them off, eventually ywill be left with the heaviest material of all, which is the gold. It does not take much shaking to bring a new layer of lighter material to the surface. Maybe 5 or 6 seconds of shaking will do it, maybe less. It all depends upon the consistency of the material and how much gold is pre-sent.

Continue to pluck out the larger-sized rocks and pebbles as they show themselves during the process.

STEP 11:Every few cycles of sweeping and re-shaking, tilt your pan back to the level position and re-shake. This keeps any gold from beinallowed to work its way up the forward-edge of your pan.

STEP 12:Continue the above steps of sweeping and re-shaking until you are down to the heaviest materials in your pan. These usually con

sist of old pieces of lead and other metal, coins, BBs, old bullets, buckshot, nails, garnets, small purple and black iron rocks, and the heavy

black sand concentrates. Black sands consist mainly or in part of the following: magnetite (magnetic black sands), hematite (non -magnetic

black sands), titanium, zircon, rhodolite, monazite, tungsten materials, and sometimes pyrites (fools gold), plus any other items which migh

be present in that location which have a high specific gravity-like gold and platinum.

Once down to the heaviest black sands in your pan, you can get a quick look at the concentrates to see how much gold is present by allow

about a half-cup of water into the pan, tilting the pan forward as before, and shaking from left to right to place the concentrates in the forwar

bottom section of your pan. Then, level the pan off and swirl the water around in slow circles. This action will gradually uncover the concen-

trates, and you can get a look at any gold that is present. The amount of gold in your pan will give you an idea how rich the raw material is

that you are sampling.

A magnet can be used to help remove the magnetic black sands from the gold pan. Take care when doing this. While gold is not magnetic,sometimes particles of gold will become trapped in the magnetic net of iron particles which clump together and attach to the magnet. I prefeto drop the magnetic sands into a second plastic gold pan, swish them around, and then pick them up once again with the magnet. Dependupon how much gold this leaves behind, I might do this several times before finally discarding the magnetic sands.

Many beginners like to stop panning at this point and pick out all the pieces of gold (colors)with tweezers. This is one way of recovering thegold from your pan, but it is a pretty slow method.

Most prospectors who have been at it for awhile will pan down through the black sands as far as they feel that they can go without losing an

gold. Then they check the pan for any colors by swirling it, and pick out any of the larger-sized flakes and nuggets to place them in a gold

sample bottle. Then the remaining concentrates are poured into a small coffee can or bucket and allowed to accumulate there until the end

the day, or week, or whenever enough concentrates have been collected to make it worthwhile further process them. This is really the bette

method if you are interested in recovering more gold, because it allows you to get on with the job of panning and sampling without getting

deeply involved with a pair of tweezers. Otherwise, you can end up spending 25% of your time panning and up to 75% of your time pickingout small colors from the pan!

If you are not in a known gold-producing location, but want to do some practice panning to acquire some skills before going out into the fielyou can practice in your own backyard. Use a washtub to pan into and some diggings from your garden (or wherever) to simulate streambematerials. I recommend that you throw in some rocks and gravel along with the dirt so that it takes on an actual streambed consistency. Taksome pieces of lead, buckshot or small lead fishing weights, cut them up into various sizes ranging from pellet -size down to pinhead-size, apound some of them flat with a hammer. This puts the pieces of lead in the same form as the majority of gold found in a streambed -flake foThey will act in much the same way as will flakes and grains of gold. Leave a few of the pieces of lead shot so that gold nuggets can also bsimulated.

When panning into the tub, place some of these pieces of lead into your pan, starting off with the larger-sized pieces first. Keep track of howmany pieces of lead you use each time so that you can see how well you are doing when you get down to the bottom of the pan. Practicepanning in this manner can be very revealing to a beginner, especially when he or she continues to put smaller pieces of lead into the pan aprogress is made.

If you can pan small pieces of lead successfully, then you will not have much difficulty panning gold (higher specific gravity) out of a riverbeAnd, who knows? You may end up with gold in your pan-right out of your own backyard! It wouldnt be the first time.

Bags of real panning material are also available from different sources within the industry. These bags usually contain some real gold along

with the type of materials you would commonly encounter when panning out in the field. Practice panning with the real thingis the best wa

to get started!

Practice Gold Panning
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