Gold Fever!!!
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter March 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
everyone
Thanks to
Dave Bender for sharing your agate pieces to us. Shows what you can do on your
own to turn your passions into fashion.
We talked
last month about going to the outings this summer. I have reserved my hotel in
Sturgis for the May trip, and have a camping space for Nugget Lake in June
I was
able to get a camping spot for camping at Muskellunge Park is $20 a day plus $8
reservation fee. You also need a state recreation passport for all state lands
in Michigan. For non-residents it is $9 a day or $32 for the year.
This
month Dean Race will be in to tell us about his mine claim in Chicken Alaska. It
is always exciting to hear his stories. He will be bringing some of his
concentrate gold bags for sale. They are $50 for the small bags and $150 for the
big bags.
I will miss this months meeting
as I will be bowling in Sparta on that day and you will most likely be gone by
the time I could get there.
Until the creeks are flowing Mike Fait
Upcoming
Events
March 4, 2017 Wausau Club Meeting Gold Cube by Kurt Bublitz at
11:00 am
March 18, 2017 Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm
Dean Race, speaker.
April 15, 2017 Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm
May 19, 20, 21, 2017 Tomah Club Outing at Sturgis, South Dakota more details
to follow.
June 17, 2017 Tomah Club Meeting at Nugget Lake more details to follow.
July 15, 2017 Tomah Club Meeting at Muskellunge Lake, Mich. see details in
this newsletter.
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes February, 2017
Old Business:
The February meeting was held at the Town Hall at the Town of Lagrange, 22731
Flint Ave. on Route #21 west of Tomah Wisconsin on
February 21st,
24 members and guests attended.
There was not speaker, but everyone had something interesting to bring to the
club. Dave Bender brought a cut &
polished Montana Agate and spoke of all the work it takes to get the finished
stone. It takes a lot of time and
patience, and something to do during the winter instead of prospecting for gold.
Mike talked about the upcoming outing to South Dakota, Michigan, Nugget
Lake and about the Indiana Gold Show on October 21, & 22nd, 2017.
New Business:
Next meeting March 18th at the
Lagrange Town Hall at the Town of Lagrange, 22731 Flint Ave. on Route #21 west
of Tomah Wisconsin at 1:00pm.
Dean Race will be our speaker. He
always has great stories about his Gold claims in Alaska.
He will also have Pay Dirt and other things for sale.
Raffles:
Thank you to all that donated items for the Table Raffle Jeanie Morrison, Mike
& Gail Fait, Diane & Bill North, Jeff Hastings, Diane Kollins, Bev Bender,
Richard Neimyjski, Merlin Meyers, Wayne Ellefson, & Janice Laubenstien.
Sorry I missed anyone who donated.
Thank you to all.
50/50 raffle winner Jeff Hastings
Gold raffle winners: Nugget
Janice Laubenstien
Gold Concentrates Dan Koehler
Gold Price on 2/27/17 was $1,252.10
Silver Price on 2/27/17 was $18.24
Respectfully submitted by Diane North Newsletter Editor
Officers
elected for 2017.
President Michael Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
(Cell phone to be used only on meeting days = 715-305-8319)
Vice-President Gary Morrison 715-316-2555
Secretary Jeanne Morrison 715-316-2555
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