NUPA JANUARY 2013 NEWSLETTER

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NUPA NUGGETS

In This Issue

Meet New Officers

Classify

Gold Nugget

Select a Pan

Membership Dues

Calendar

Meeting Location975 Wall, Ogden Eagles Building, Park and Enter behind Building

Next Meeting, January 23, 2013Meet your new officers and review proposed changes to bylaws.

Welcome to a New Year of Prospecting

Our new President, Mike John, is looking forward to an exciting year. We will beplanning outings and need to hear from you. What would you like to see and dothis year? Bring your ideas to the next General Meeting in January and lets see

if we can make 2013 an outstanding year of prospecting.

We Have OpportunitiesWe have finished our elections but still have a officer position (Treasurer) to fill.

In addition, we have:

Claims to re-stake, and outings to host

Raffles to conduct and a gem show booth to staff

There are opportunities to help in any area of interest so if you like to talk to

folks, camp at a claim, spend time in the outdoors and give stuff away please

consider taking on a volunteer task. No offer of your time and interest is too

small.

Northern Utah Prospectors Association January 2013

Gold: $1,667.99

Silver: $31.05

As of January 14, 2013


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Officers

2013

President

Mike John

1st Vice President

Mike Kozlowski

2nd Vice President

Steve Sherman

Treasurer

TBD

Secretary

Sheri Gaddis

Parliamentarian

Dave DeHeer

Claims Director

Lonnie Fausett

Members at Large

Kim & Sandy Patterson

Leo & Donale Richan

Bob Shriber

Hal Berry

Alan Meyer

2013 Officers

NotesPresidentMike John

Member for about 6 years. Likes working with a high banker, dredge and sluice

but really likes working with anythingthat gets gold.

1st Vice PresidentMike Kozlowski (Koz)

In the club for about 8 years. Likes working with a high banker and dry washer.

Has been prospecting since the early 80s starting around McCall, Idaho. He

keepsthe gold he gets.

2nd Vice PresidentSteve Sherman

Member of the club for a couple of years. Likes digging in the mud, figures he is

sort of a mud puppy. He was introduced to dredging in Alaska by Curtis C. Favor-

ite club claim is Crescent.

SecretarySheri Gaddis

Part of the club for a couple of years. Loves the familytime and especially enjoys

the Idaho claims.

President

Mike John

1st Vice

President

MikeKozlowski

2nd Vice

President

Steve

Sherman

Secretary

Sheri

Gaddis


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ClassifiersHere is a simple procedure that can help get your material down to a good size for

finishing:

Fill a 5 gallon bucket with water and top with a 1/4 screen (4 holes/square

inch)

Shovel material into the screen (it is now sitting in water) and add more water

Shake the bucket and screen back and forth to rinse the material

Break up any moss or clay

Discard the larger material after checking for those BIG nuggets

Repeat until you have a bucket full of minus 1/4 material

Next..Run the material through a sluice, wheel or pan.

You may even want to classify down to minus 20 (20 openings per square inch)

Why..As stated in The Gold Nugget, January 2008, Gary Hawley.If the material is

not classified its like trying to save a marble when panning with oranges; you are

going to lose more than you save.Classifier size..

Generally sized to fit a 5 gallon bucket. Heavy duty plastic with stainless steel

mesh:

1/2 inch screen, mesh size 2, 2 holes per linear inch



If you have 144 holes per square inch you have a 12x12 pattern and 12 mesh

Wire size does not really matter until you get to really fine mesh and for most of us

classifying to 20 mesh is just about right.

Gold floats at about 200 mesh (70 microns) and 50 microns is about the smallest

visible to the naked eye.

Gold Nugget

A naturally occurring piece of na-

tive gold. Most can be found

downstream from weathered lodesor veins though some may still be

at the lode or vein location.

Abrasive polishing is the result of

stream action. Gold nuggets are

usually about 83% to 92% pure

with Alaskan nuggets at the lower

end of the range and the Australi-

an nuggets are often at the higher

end of the purity range.

The richer and deeper the orange-

yellow the higher the gold content.

Alaska Nugget 63.8 grams

Equipment


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Membership

Dues

Membership dues will now run

January through December.

New membership $40.00

Renewal $30.00

E-mail copies of the newsletter are

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Choosing a Gold Pan

Size

Pans range from 10 to 17 and 14 is most common. As a beginner you cant go

wrong with a 14 pan. 17 pan can hold a lot of material but can be heavy.

Material

Usually made of steel or plastic. Plastic pans are lighter and durable enough to

last for years. It is easier to remove magnetic black sands from a plastic pan.

(Guess why?) The riffles built into the plastic pans can really help sift material but

if you really want to go back to the old days and ways you can find metal pans in

the catalogs.

Color

Commonly blue, green and black. It all boils down to being able to see the gold in

the bottom of the pan. Black sand does not show up as well on a black pan so

blue or green would be a good choice for a beginner. Now where is the gold?

Shape

There are just about as many pan configurations are there are colors. You can

choose round, hexagon, square, oblong, lots of riffles on the side, few riffles on the

side, deep pan bottom, wide pan bottom, swirly riffles on the side, no riffles, spiral

riffles on the bottom, and even steel drum ends (wide, shallow with no riffles).


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