Gold Fever!!!
Gold Fever!!!
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter January 2017
Welcome
Welcome to
the 2017 GOLD FEVER Newsletter.
Another year, another gold prospecting opportunity.
If you have not tried to find gold, you need to give it a try.
Let us know if you need help to get started, there are many people with
experience that the help you.
Do not forget the Newsletter and
pictures can always be found at:
www.huntforgems.com/gpaatomahwi/
Presidents Message
Hi all,
I 'm sorry I had to cancel the
December meeting but the storm did come in just as they predicted. Though the
roads were fairly clean in the morning there were still slippery spots and it
didn't pay to endanger anyone. We will try again in January. The gift exchange
will go on as planned. I hope you all can make it and we don't get another snow
storm or ice storm like on Christmas.
I had my
cataract surgery on Dec 22 now 4 days later I still don't have perfect vision
but it is better than it has been since last march. Night driving has improved
200 percent, no glare. I go back to the doc on Friday hope for more good news
and better eyesight as the days go on. This was the best Christmas gift I could
have gotten.
I talked
to Larry Bender the night I cancelled the last meeting. He still has lots of
pain and my not be able to join us for quite a while.
Cold
weather and surgery has shut me down as far as panning is concerned. I have
received a couple of calls from new prospectors about what equipment they should
buy, i told them to look at the Keene sluces but if they could afford it to
check out gold hog matting. I keep hearing good things about gold hog it is just
more costly and I like my Keene.
Hope you
all had a great holiday. Mike Fait
Upcoming
Events
January 7, 2017 Wausau Club Meeting Geode Digging in the Midwest
at 11:00 am
January 21, 2017 - Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall Christmas
Party - at 1:00 pm
February 4, 2017 Wausau Club Meeting Alaska Gold by Dean Race at 11:00 am
February 18, 2017 - Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00
pm
March 4, 2017 Wausau Club Meeting God Cube by Kurt Bublitz at
11:00 am
March 18, 2017 Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes December, 2017
Old Business:
The December meeting was cancelled.
New
Business:
Next meeting January 21st
at the Lagrange Town Hall at 1:00pm.
Christmas exchange was discussed $10.00
gift to be given it should be for either a man or a woman. If you give a gift
you get a ticket to take a gift back. You do not have to participate if you
don't want to or you forget.
The next club outings will include Nugget Lake on June 17th and South
Dakota Outing May 20th.
Raffles: None
Gold Price on 1/4/17 was $1,163.10
Silver Price on 1/4/17 was $16.40
Respectfully submitted by Diane North Newsletter Editor
The Helical Flow Effect
What
Impacts Helical Flow?
Now precisely understanding helical flow itself, like so many things concerning
hydrodynamics is not so much science for given creek bed as it is art. It's the
art of spotting where the average flow would've taken the gold including all the
obvious natural flow variations that impact the flow and where it deposits your
gold. Below I list some things that will impact the accuracy of your helical
flow estimation:
Turning flow
- Of course, as I mentioned earlier helical flow will change based on turns and
the type of turn. For example the vortex flow formation depends on how sharp and
even the turn is and how deep the creek bed is, along with boulders or other
obstacles in the flow.
Straight flow
- As the turn begins to straighten out helical flow will sweep things into the
centerline. Of course between turning and straight that line is going to cross
to mid-stream in a kind of S-curve from the side where the curve is bent to the
middle as the stream flow straightens. Notice the gold line doesn't go
immediately to the center line, instead it sweeps slowly from the outside to the
middle and then as the turn bends the other direction it will trail over to the
other side. This pattern is typically shown is an S-curve across the centerline
and down the middle if the stream is straight for a sufficient distance. Of
course what is sufficient depends on the speed and uniformity of the flow
through that region.
Notice how often things about flow and gold deposits get qualified with a
qualitative "it depends" factor. It's important to note that the science of
understanding water flow is by definition approximate at its best. In a real
world setting, this often means you're better off just getting a feeling for
what the flow may do and then use that understanding to form your hypothesis for
where to take your gold samples. Then use the samples to prove that your
hypothesis is true or false by measuring the gold in your samples.
Key objective:
What does the gold sample predict about where to sample next? Start by sampling
in the areas that your flow based hypothesis or educated guess predicts the gold
will concentrate. This hypothesis is based on your best guess using a bit of
art, science and a whole lot of experience. You'll get this experience and
ability when you have tested enough samples. You'll learn this stuff best by
prospecting more and taking more samples.
Large obstacles
- Objects such as boulders, cliffs and bedrock obstacles that jut out into the
creek and other flow disruptions of sufficient size will definitely affect
helical flow and the formation of helical flow which in turn affects where gold
will tend to concentrate. In fact obstacles and their flow disturbing turbulence
will impact whether a pay streak will form at all. Keep that in mind if there's
a big disturbance in the high water flow. That disturbance may easily alter
where your helical flow would tend to deposit gold. For example a large boulder
will tend to form a great big trap or sweeping eddy current and break up the
helical flow at the same time. A big trap like that will tend to trump the
S-curve and the linear gold placer paystreak rules given earlier. At that point
you're looking for a big placer pocket or downstream gold trap.
Stream speed drops
- As the stream-flow slows down the gold will tend to drop out of the flood flow
at the point where the flood speed starts to decrease. These will also disturb
the existing vortex flows if any exist. Look for sudden widening or deep pooling
areas. Anywhere a fish would like to feed as food drops out of the flow. This is
also where cobbles and gravel tend to collect in flood conditions. Avoid smooth
bowls as your gold will tend to blow out of those in a rushing flood.
Why Do Helical Flows Sweep Gold?
The vortex formed in helical flow contains energy. Helical flow energy takes the
form of the rotating and moving mass of water and debris. Much like the prop
wash of a boats propeller, this dynamic rotating water power energy will move
things that it pushes against. When a stream of water and bedload entrained in
it moves, it's actually moving a fair amount of mass per unit volume. That flow
contains energy in the form of mass and speed. This energy, when restricted to
the creek bed, will tend to take on certain flow patterns based on friction and
flow restrictions. One of these patterns is the formation of a helical-flow; of
course there are other jet patterns and turbulent eddies that can take place as
well, especially when flow-disturbance and turbulence are involved.
For helical flow the energy is contained in the downstream movement of mass and
in the sideways rotation of the complete stream bedload and water mass. It's a
rather complicated thing but just knowing that it behaves like a massive
corkscrew is good enough for what we do here.
The sweep of bedload material contain your gold is both along the flow (in a
line downstream) and partly sideways to flow (rotating perpendicular-to-streamflow)
that means gold will generally move diagonally until it finds a trap or lower
speed drop point. Just keep in mind
speed changes as the corkscrew turns based on how much volume of water must flow
through a given zone along with friction.
If more water has to make it through a given amount of time the water's going to
speed up, if it's less volume per time then it slows down. That slowing action
is what drops the gold. As I mentioned earlier, you'll want to look for wider or
deeper transition regions in the high water flow. These are places where it will
slow the flow "just enough."
The final chapter Next Month with:
What Are Some Other Clues To Look For?
Prospector Jess - Hunting4Gold.com
Officers
elected for 2017.
President Michael Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
Vice-President Gary Morrison 715-316-2160
Secretary Jeanne Morrison 715-316-2160
Newsletter Editor - Diane North (dbnorth@centurytel.net)
608-635-7031
Treasure Gayle Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
Outing Chairman Jeff Hastings (monkeyhast@frontier.net)
(608) 637-3097
Claims Director Richard Niemyjski (richnski@frontiernet.net)
608-637-3295
State Director Mike Flint (mwink12@excite.com)
608-372-0694
Wisconsin
Area Clubs
Greenbush Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Greenbush Prospectors meet every second
Saturday of the month at Salem United Methodist Church
120 Sheboygan St.
Fond Du Lac, WI. 54935 (change of time) 1:00 PM Meetings
Midstate Metal Detecting Club meets every 3rd Wednesday at 7:00 pm
at Shooters Bar and Restaurant at the intersection of Hwy 39 and 54, next to the
Shell Station. Contact: Steve
Miller 715-572-1845
Wausau Prospectors meets the 1st Saturday of the month at 11:00 am
at the Village Town Hall in Brokaw Wisconsin. Address is: 218 2nd
St., Brokaw, WI. Take US 51 north of Wausau and take exit 197. Then go east on
county road WW. At the 4 way stop in Brokaw take a right. You are there (just
past the Credit Union). Contact:
Kurt Bublitz 715-340-2831 or e-mail
lizzy101@charter.net
Wisconsin Northwoods Adventures GPAA Chapter holds their meetings on the 2nd
Saturday of every month at 11:00 am, at the Cameron Community Center, 512 W.
Main Street, Cameron, WI. Contact Dave Wire Heinsohn (715) 353-2261
