WELCOME TO GPOC'S TEMPORARY WEB PAGE! Hooked on Gold is pleased to bring this page to you as requested by The Gold Prospector's of Colorado to assist you in finding information concerning the club while they are in the process of revamping and relocating their permanent site. Check this page for changes and information concerning the club. The Events page also contains this information as well as other activities by other groups and things going on in the State. This page is being provided to consolidate all of GPOC's information in one place, but please feel free to visit other areas of Hooked on Gold. You will find additional information on gold, small mining operations, and recreational prospecting. New people will find the site informative, and those who have been around gold for a while will find, at the very least, some "pretty pictures' of gold. Gold Propsectors of Colorado P.O. Box 1593 PRINT YOUR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION AND RELEASE FORM HERE AND SEND IN TO THE ADDRESS ON THE BROCHURE/FORM.
NEW 2006 BOARD MEMBERS: President - Eric Vesterby (sopris51@yahoo.com), Vice-President - Phil Vigil, Secretary - Rosa Gallaghan, 1 year Trustee - Lou Severini, 2 year Trustee - Burt Greenfield, and 3 year Trustee - Terry Marshall. The TREASURER position has not been filled, and MUST be by the end of the year. Anyone who has bookkeeping or CPA experience, or can share this job with someone else needs to step up and take over these duties. ANNOUNCEMENT: Mark your calendars for June 30, 2007. Steve Veach, Loren Lowe, Rich Fretterd, Glen Beattie, and others are presenting a free basic introduction to propsecting, rockhounding, and gold panning class. Many topics will be included covering tools, equipment, methods, maps and place to look. The course will run from 9 a.m. til noon at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, 225 North Gate Blvd., north Colorado Springs. Take exit 156 A and turn east, then right at the museum gate. Attendees need to bring a lunch as discussions and a private tour will go on after the class. CALL FOR RESERVATIONS: 488-0880 to register as seating is limited. Bring your club membership card for free admission to the class and museum. ___________________________ We have put together a collection of prospecting videos you may be interested in at http://www.thevideosense.com/user/MQS/ . I found several very good videos on the beginings of GPAA, specimen gold from the 16 to 1 mine, a basic gold panning demonstration, a narrative about the Klondyke, some vacation stuff, metal detecting videos, and a slide show of a restored mining town in Australia. Get yourself a cup of "joe" and plan to set a spell and enjoy the videos. They can be accessed anytime at the site, so bookmark it for the future. You can access thumbnails of all the videos near the top of the page that say "more videos from MQS". We will be adding to it and posting our own as time goes on. Something new goes on it every week we can find something to post or put up ourselves.
The youtube version of the Colorado State Championships has disappeared, but I found it is still on videogoogle, so click the button and see what GPOC was up to last year in Breckenridge at our championships. Colorado State Gold Panning Championships were AWESOME this year. We had cool weather and some showers, but a great competition. Many of our regular competitors did not attend this year for various reasons, so we had fewer people competing. The changes the Competition Committee made as to how dry and speed were run, when in the same competitions, went very smoothly and we were much less rushed each day. We doubled up speed and dry to run simultaniously, which was interesting and made for a very fast competition. Winners were as follows. Colorado State Gold Panning Championship 2006 Old Timers Juniors (Sr. division)
Juniors (Jr. division) National Style
Ladies Men’s
Teams State 1. Glenn Ohrns 1. Larry Weilnau Linda Jent 2. Shirley Weilnau John Roth 3. Ted Westcott 2. David Herrera Larry Weilnau World’s Dry Pat Herrera 1. Larry Weilnau 3. SueDrewes 2. Shirley Weilnau Patricia Vesterby 3. David Herrera Ted Westcott
BELOW: LET'S GO GOLD PANNNING DAYS Panning, Sluicing and larger equipment were all used during the three day outing. Lot's of people were there and a terrific time was had by all. |
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More pictures and your membership application and release form can be printed off to send in to the address provided in the information brochure you will find on the second page of the minisite at the link below.
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BULL SNAKE This big boy was photographed during the Let's Go Gold Panning Days and is not a poisionous variety, however, rattlers were also spotted so be aware. BEVER CREEK ROAD WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL THE END OF MAY
The Quill will be printing maps to the claims this winter and spring. Watch for one a month until they have all been printed. Right now it looks like they will begin putting them in the Quill in the February issue. CALENDAR
JUNE 7th - Board Meeting 9th & 10th Outing to Cache Creek 13th - General Meeting 15th - 17th Denver Gem Show 16th -17th Kingdom Days - Breckenridge Sign up for this event so we can get a count on who needs a room. 17th FATHER'S DAY 22nd - 24th Colorado Springs Gem Show Panning Demos 30th - Prospecting class at Western Museum of Mining 9-12 See above announcement for information ____________________ |
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APRIL 2007 ATTENTION! The State of Colorado will be draining Clear Creek Reservoir on the Arkansas river drainage. Expect higher than usual run off water for the entire summer and considerable silting as the reservoir is drained. The entire Arkansas river above Pueblo Reservoir will be effected.
GPOC CLAIMS UPDATE: Aug.06. There has been some controversy in the past few weeks concerning Prospector #3 north of Buena Vista. A check at the BLM office in Denver has turned up a letter sent to the overfilers that all three of their claims have been disallowed, and they have been harrassing people without knowing whether their claims were legal or not. This letter is dated August 14, 2006, and HookedonGold has obtained copies that are being sent to club officers. The Ranger in the area is requiring that vehicles not be more than 30 feet off of the road. Camps cannot be more that 100 feet off the road. The banks are steep in areas, so be aware of that, and also, that the area below our claim can also be prospected. That area was removed from BLM mineral entry in 1894 as a water reservoir, but can be prospected until those rights are exercised. It CANNOT BE CLAIMED, as the BLM does not have the mineral rights to it. GPOC CLAIMS REPORT BEAVER CREEK 07 - The gate is now open. New regulations on the Beaver Creek claims are in place for this season (07). HIGHBANKING IS PROHIBITED. DREDGING is allowed with a dredge hose size of 3 inches. Panning, sluicing, and metal detecting are allowed as long as you do not move more than 2 yards of material every two days with any type of equipment. It is your responsibility to obtain any information you require BEFORE you go up there. The access road on the east side of Beaver Creek may be closed to access. USFS phone number is 719-836-2031 if you require additional information. Wendy is no longer with this office, so you will need to talk to whomever is there now. Your co-operation in this will greatly assist the club in negotiating with the Forest Service on the plan of operation.
The Point Bar claim is open for dredging with 4 inch and under. Any one who is out there dredging or highbanking MUST fill in holes. Do Not undercut banks, trees, or other vegetation. We don’t need a fisherman falling into someone’s dredge or highbanking hole and getting hurt. We only need to be sued once for ALL of this activity to cease.
The club, in conjunction with the BLM, is making plans to improve the parking and prospecting areas on Cache Creek. They are looking into moving the parking area a bit closer to the prospecting area, and knocking down the hill so it isn’t quite so dangerous, and adding a culvert. More on that as it unfolds. GPOC has recently begun investigating a couple of claims in the Como area. More on that as it unfolds. All for now. Stay safe out there, and be courteous.
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Claims maps will be included in the quills for the next few months starting in February '07. One will be put in per month until all have been printed. Cache Creek directions: To get to the Cache Creek Placer area, take Chafee County road 398, which goes directly behind the Granite General Store and Restaurant located on the west side of highway 24, 1.1 miles. There you will cross a road intersection that goes to the left of the cemetery. KEEP going straight ahead. At 1.7 miles, Chaffee County road 398 bears to the right. Keep going straight ahead here. At 2.o miles you will see a road heading south. This is the power line road. Turn left here. Note that this road is not graded or surfaced and can be a problem during wet weather! At 2.25 miles you will cross a gate. This gate is closed November 30 to Memorial Day each year. At 3.25 miles you will see a parking lot area on the left. The road continues past this point but only for administrative purposes. The placer area is to the east of this road. The boundary area is marked. Stay within the marked boundaries. Beaver Creek Directions From Colorado Springs, take highway 24 west to highway 9, highway 9 to Fairplay. Drive through town to the street on the far side of the park and turn right. Follow that to the end of the street and turn left. Travel the gravel road to the sign pointing you to the Bever Creek area and turn right. You will go through the Forest Service gate with the cattle guard. Continue to follow the road to the White claim markers and you are there! From Denver take highway 285 south to Fairplay and repeat the directions in Fairplay given above. From Pueblo take highway 50 to highway 9 and follow the directions through Fairplay given above. When I get specific road numbers I will post those. For now, these directions will get you where you need to go. The sign up to Bever Creek is large enough not to be missed and is a ways out of town. When the creek starts to turn you will be close to your turn as well. PROSPECTOR 3, Buena Vista Drive to the northern edge of Buena Vista on highway 24 to county road 384. Turn to the east and take the right hand road, 384A, not the one going straight, past the pavement until just before the dirt road bends to the right. At that place where the ridge is apparent, you will find a dirt road to the hard left. Take the left hand road going down the ridge to the river bottom. Follow the road north going between the large rock outcroppings to the claim markers. (The river will be on your right) Prospector 3 will begin just past the pit that you will see on your left against the rock face. There will be several posts around the pit, and ours is the white round post on the upstream side of the pit. A midline post is also on your right inline with the corner post down by the river. The claim then angles across the river, at that point, across to the rocks above the county road. We did not place a marker there as the area is a known Spanish Trail Monument, and we did not wish to take a chance on destroying any of it. Arkansas River bond permit is required to work with motorized equipment in the river. Dry Washing, Panning and Sluicing do not require this bond. All motorized activity (except dry washing) is confined to the high water mark in the river. Any highbanking material leaving the box must be kept in a holding pond before returning to the river. No additional silting can be put into the river other than the incidental silting done by Mother Nature. |
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