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NUPA NUGGETS
In This Issue
Pres message
Dugway Geodes
Mineral Uses
Wishful 1,2 & 3
Pyrite
Dugway Geodes,
continued
Calendar
OUTINGS
Next Meeting, July 24, 2013Frank Hopkins will demonstrate how to
builda dry washer. Ice Cream will be served!!
Presidents MessageHi everyone,I hope
your
Fourth of July was relaxing and enjoyable. GOD BLESS
AMERICA!!
Just want to caution everyone out there camping and prospecting
to
keep in mind that fire danger is very high. Put your fires
cold/wet out
before you leave.
It appears that some folks are planning to go toNUPA5 and some
to
Wishful onJuly 26-28 so which ever direction you choose
travel..be
safe and find some golden sunshine....
Just a note on the Clear Creek day outing, I was very pleased
with the
turn out, everyone seemed to have a great day visiting and
prospecting,
though the gold was fine some members did find a few pieces. It
is a
beautiful place to camp all long the creek.
See ya at the meeting on the 24th...May your pans smile back at
ya
Northern Utah Prospectors Association July 2013
Gold: $1,291.63
Silver: $19.95
As of July 16, 2013
NUPA 5, Wishful July 2628
Kaymack K&Q August 1618
Crescent Creek September 2022
Additional information will be posted for each outingat the
meeting prior and in the newsletter.
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Officers
2013
President
Mike John435-866-2275
1st Vice President
Mike Kozlowski
2nd Vice President
Steve Sherman
Treasurer/Newsletter
Carolyn Durga801-690-4202
Secretary
Sheri Gaddis
Parliamentarian
Dave DeHeer
Claims Director
Lonnie Fausett
Members at Large
Kim & Sandy Patterson
Leo & Donale Richan
Bob Shriber
Hal & Lynda Berry
Alan Meyer
Curt Dayton
Utah Dugway Geodes .. www.geology.utah.gov
Treasurers Report June, 2013
Checking: Savings:
Starting Balance $ 3,002.96 Starting Balance $ 4843.49
Deposits Interest .40
Interest
.20
Withdrawals
June 31 Balance $ 2,474.94 June 31 Balance $ 4844.30
Geologic information:Approximately 6 to 8 million years ago
(Miocene epoch),
volcanic activity occurred in western Utah and deposited an
extrusive igneous rock
called rhyolite. Trapped gasses formed
cavities within the rhyolite, and millions of
years of ground-water circulation allowed
minerals to precipitate into the cavities.
The result is geodes with spherical shapes
and crystal-lined cavities.
Roughly 32,000 to 14,000 thousand years
ago, a large body of water known as Lake
Bonneville covered most of western Utah. The lake's wave
activity eroded the geode
-bearing rhyolite and redeposited the geodes several miles away
in the Dugway
geode bed area as lake sediments. Most geodes are typically
hollow whereas others
are completely filled with massive, banded quartz. The most
common mineral found
within the geodes is quartz in various colors: clear (rock
crystal), purple (amethyst),
and pink (rose).
How to get there:From Salt Lake City take I-80 westbound until
you reach the
Tooele turnoff (exit 99). Travel south on High-
way 36 for about 40.5 miles to the Pony Ex-
press Road (which is the dirt road just past
Faust). Turn west (right) and proceed 50.1
miles on the Pony Express Road to the Dug-
way geode bed turnoff. Turn north (right),
proceed up the dirt road and look for recent
diggings.
Note:Recently, people have bypassed the turnoff because the sign
to the geode
bed area was missing. Please note at the time of this writing,
there is a temporary
sign indicating the correct direction to the geode bed area;
however, please use your
vehicle's odometer to determine distance to the geode bed
turnoff. Cont...page 6
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MembershipDuesMembership dues are from January
through December. Anyone joining
after October 1 will be considered a
paid member through the next
calendar year.
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Mailed newsletters add $5.00 to
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You will have an opportunity to
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preference when you renew your
membership.
Uses of a Few MineralsAluminum (Bauxite) The most abundant metal
element in the Earths crust.Bauxite ore is the main source of
aluminum and is imported from Guinea, Austral-ia, Jamaica, etc.
Used in automotive and airplanes (36%), bottling and
canningindustries (25%); kitchen cookware and foil; building and
electrical (14%); person-al products, like deodorants.
Barium (Barite) Used as a heavy additive in oil well drilling
mud, paints, rub-ber, plastic and paper; production of barium
chemicals and glass manufacturing.
Clays Kaolin, paper, refractories, rubber, ball clay, dinnerware
and pottery, floorand wall tile, sanitary wear, fire clay,
firebricks, foundry sands, bentonite, drillingmud, iron ore
pelletizing, fullers earth, absorbent and filtering, insecticide
dispers-ing, common clay, construction, cosmetics.
Feldspar A rock forming mineral; industrially important in glass
and ceramicindustries; pottery, porcelain and enamelware; soaps;
bond for abrasive wheels;cement and glues; insulating compositions;
fertilizer; tarred roofing materials; andas a sizing, or filler, in
textiles and paper applications.
Fluorite (Fluorspar) Used in production of hydrofluoric acid,
which is used inpottery, ceramics, optical, electroplating and
plastics industries. In the metallurgi-cal treatment of bauxite; as
a flux in open-hearth steel furnaces and in metalsmelting; in
carbon electrodes; emery wheels; electric arc welders; toothpaste
asa source of fluorine and in water fluoridation.
Garnet Used in water filtration, finishing wood furniture,
electronic components,ceramics, glass, jewelry and abrasives in
transport manufacturing.
Gold Used in dentistry and medicine; in jewelry and arts; in
medallions andcoins; in ingots as a store of value; for scientific
and electronic instruments; com-puter circuitry; as an electrolyte
in the electroplating industry; in many applicationsfor space
travel.
Halite (sodium chloride salt) Used in human and animal diet,
food season-
ing and food preservation. To prepare sodium hydroxide, soda
ash, caustic soda,hydrochloric acid, chlorine, metallic sodium;
used in ceramic glazes; metallurgy,curing of hides; mineral waters;
soap manufacture; home water softeners; high-way deicing;
photography; in scientific equipment for optical parts.
Mica Mica commonly occurs as flakes, scales or shreds. Sheet
muscovite(white) mica is used in electronic insulators; ground mica
in paints, as joint ce-ment, as a dusting agent, in well-drilling
mud and lubricants; and in plastics, roof-ing, rubber and welding
rods.
Silica Used in manufacture of computer chips, glass and
refractory materials;ceramics; abrasives; water filtration;
component of hydraulic cements; filler in cos-metics,
pharmaceutical, paper, insecticides; anti-caking agent in foods;
flattingagent in paint; thermal insulator.
Talc (Soapstone) The primary use for talc is in the production
of paper.Ground talc is used as filler in ceramics, paint, paper,
roofing, plastics, cosmetics,
and in agriculture. You will find talc in many household
products such as baby(talcum) powder, deodorant, and makeup. Very
pure talc is used in fine arts, andis called soapstone. It is often
used to carve figurines.
Trona (sodium carbonate or soda ash) Used in glass container
manufacture;in fiberglass and specialty glass; also used in
production of flat glass; in liquiddetergents; in medicine; as a
food additive; photography; cleaning and boiler com-pounds; pH
control of water. Trona is mined mainly in Wyoming.
Source:Mineral Information Institute; U.S. Geological Survey
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GPS Coordinates of Claims
N43 degrees 49 minutes 02.0 seconds W115 degrees 21 minutes 19.8
seconds
PHIFER CREEK CLAIMS Wishful 1,2 & 3 and NUPA 5 on the Middle
Fork of the Boise River
The Middle Fork of the Boise is NO LONGER open to dredging on
NUPA Claims. Dredging on Phifer Creek will require both Idaho
Letter Permit and EPA Permit.
Follow I-84 toward Twin Falls and Boise. Take the Wendell /
Gooding exit and head North. Follow Highway 46 North until it comes
to
a T at Highway 20. Turn left on Highway 20 and head West through
Fairfield and then Hill City. Several miles West of Hill City,
there is a turn-off for Pine and Featherville as well as
Anderson Ranch Reservoir. Look for the Highway Maintenance shed.
Follow
this road North through Pine and then Featherville. At
Featherville, just past the bar and motel, the road will take a
hard right and
cross the river. Do not cross the bridge. Go straight onto a
dirt road, FS Road 156. Follow this road North through Rocky Bar.
Stayon the main road. On the top of the ridge the road will fork.
Take the road that heads North. Follow Phifer Creek down to the
middle
fork of the Boise River, when you get to the bridge you are at
the center of the claim. There is parking on the South side of
the
bridge. This claim is 200 acres in size, 13,000 feet up and down
the river (2 miles long) and 6,600 feet wide (a little over a
mile). The
claim runs down Phifer Creek, across the Middle Fork of the
Boise river, and then up the creek across the river.
While there is gold on the high bars, the best gold will be down
in the river. Some of the sandbars can be very rich. Most of the
gold
comes in small flakes, averaging about 2mm in size.
Occasionally, very large flakes and rice grain sized nuggets may be
found.
Black sand is abundant on this claim. For the most part, bedrock
is very deep and will not be workable.
The Middle Fork of the Boise is a large river and can be
dangerous. Low water in the river is waist deep and can be fast
moving.
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Alternate route to get to Phifer Creek when pulling a
trailer:
Follow the freeway to Boise. Start out going South on S.
Broadway Ave/US-20 E/US-26 toward E Myrtle St/US-20 E/
US-26E. Merge onto I-84 E/US-20 E/US-30 E/US-26 E via the ramp
on the left toward Mountain Home/Twin Falls.
Take the ID-21 Gowen Road Exit 57 toward Idaho City. Turn left
onto ID-21/E Gowen Road. Continue to follow ID-21
E. Turn a slight right onto Crooked River Road. Crooked River
Road becomes NF-312. Stay on road for approximately
5 miles. Turn a slight left onto Little Owl Creek Road. Take the
first right to stay on Little Owl Creek Road. Turn leftonto NF-327.
NF-327 Becomes an un-named road. Stay straight to go onto North
Fork Boise River Road. Take the 1st
right onto Alexander Flat Road. Alexander Flat Road becomes
Swanholm Road. Keep left at the fork to continue on
Swanholm Road. Take the 1st left onto Middle fork road.
This road is also known as the Atlanta Forest Service Road. If
you go too far then you will arrive in Atlanta City.
"Gold, I found gold!," you shout to your friends. You quickly
imagine all the things you are going to dowith your newfound
wealth. Then reality sets in, and you are embarrassed to discover
that you havebeen tricked by the mineral pyrite, also known as
fool's gold. Take heart, you are not the first person (northe last)
to be fooled by pyrite. Even Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas
fame) mistakenly sent an entireshipload of pyrite to London in the
early 1600s, while exploring the Chickahominy River for a
waterwayto the Pacific.
How can I tell the difference between gold and pyrite (fool's
gold)?
ugs/online publications/rocks & minerals/ utah gold
Fool's Gold
Visual clues -
Color:Gold and pyrite both have a brilliant metallic luster,
butare different tones of yellow. Gold is golden to silvery
yellow,whereas pyrite is a pale to medium brassy yellow that
some-times tarnishes.
Shape:Gold usually occurs in nuggets or very small
flakes,sheets, and shapeless grains. Small cubic and octahedral
(twopyramids with bases joined) gold crystals are very rare.
Pyritecrystals commonly form cubes, octahedrons, or
pyritohedrons(twelve irregular, pentagonal or five-sided faces),
frequentlywith striations (parallel lines) on the crystal faces.
Pyrite canalso occur as shapeless grains.
Physical tests -
Hardness:Scratch the mineral with the blade of a pocket knife.
Rub off any loose powder to see if themineral has been scratched.
Gold is much softer than pyrite and can be cut. Pyrite cannot
bescratched. (Beware - chalcopyrite looks similar to pyrite, but is
softer and can be scratched with aknife. It is a very brassy
yellow, often with a bronze or iridescent tarnish.)
Odor:Rub the mineral vigorously with a hard object. Gold has no
odor, but pyrite gives off a sulphur-ous smell (like rotten
eggs).
Malleable:Strike the mineral with a steel hammer. Gold will
flatten or change shape without breaking.Pyrite will give off
sparks.
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AdvertisementDUGWAY GEODES Continued..
Where to collect:Geodes can be found approximately
1 to 2 miles north/northeast of the turnoff. The easiest
technique is to find an area of past excavations and
start digging to locate the proper horizon where the ge-
odes can be found. You will be digging in a soft,
uncon-solidated material that is susceptible to caving, so
please be careful! Examine all stones that are encoun-
tered. The geodes are fairly easy to recognize due to
their spherical shape and light weight. Most geodes are
2 to 3 inches in diameter and are typically lined with
small quartz crystals that give the cavity a sugary ap-
pearance. I collected fragments and whole geodes near
UTM map coordinates 12S 0317569 4416919.
Useful maps:Fish Springs 1:100,000
-scale topograph-
ic map, Dugway Pass 1:24,000-scale topographic map,
and a Utah highway map. These maps may be obtained
from the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore, 1594 W.
North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 537-
3320 (or 1-888- UTAH-MAP).
Land ownership:Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
public lands. Active mining claims exist on some por-
tions of the "geode area" so seek permission from the
claim owners before collecting. For more information onBLM
public lands under claim contact the House Range/
Warm Springs BLM field office at (435) 743-3100.
BLM collecting rules:The casual collector may take
small amounts of gemstones and rocks from unrestrict-
ed federal lands in Utah without obtaining a special per-
mit if collection is for personal, noncommercial purpos-
es. Collection in large quantities or for commercial pur-
poses requires a permit, lease, or license from the BLM.
Miscellaneous: Tools recommended:a shovel, pick,
safety glasses and hammer (in case you want to break
your geodes on the spot). Whole geodes can be taken
to your local rock shop to be cut in half. Bring plenty of
water and remember to bring a spare tire in case of an
unforeseen accident. More importantly, be patient and
have fun collecting!
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