Cyndy s Meeting Notes Hello Goldhounds from Don,

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1 1 April 2016 El Presidente Mike Cyndy s Meeting Notes Hello Goldhounds from Don, At the end of the meeting on Friday, March 11th several people asked me for the information I had presented during my talk about research and prospecting, with ideas about places to go. I said I would send a short summary of what I covered. Questions were also asked about various reference books. Some are listed in this review. Here it is: Gold and Where to Find it * Placer (Rivers, pits, hillsides, underground, etc) * Hardrock Areas covered: * Bear River * State Parks North and Middle Forks - Ponderosa - Mineral Bar - Yankee Jims

2 2 - Drivers Flat * BLM Wild and Scenic River system - Pennyweight Bar - Toro Mine and Pickering - Green Valley - Stevens trail * South Fork of the American - Cronan Ranch We also covered several screen images of old maps, vein strikes, etc. Here's some CD's I referenced. These are made by SharingHistory.com and they cover some historic documents and books. The CD's are run by the Google Chrome and are not compatible with Apple computers. Pioneer Mining has these CD's for sale. I think they are about $15.00 each. The information presented is great research data. It takes some basic study to understand how to look at the data. Once you have it down it's really easy. The CD s to look for include: * Sierra Nevada Folios The originals are about 2 ft x 3ft. I have a few of them. This CD covers them all. * Register of Mines and Minerals This is great mine research data. * The Mother Lode System of California. USGS Professional Paper # 157 Sharing History.com also offers other CDs. Check out their web site SharingHistory.com. Here's also a list of some good books that cover old channels, mines, and historic mining data. * The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada by Waldemar Lindgren * History of Placer County, Thompson and West * The History of Gold Discoveries in the Northern Mines Of California Mother Lode System. by Lewis Swindel year Lew covers newspaper accounts of mining ISBN x * The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California. by JD. Whitney A very rare book and difficult to find. This is the most referenced book of them all. An original copy runs about $800. * Placer Mining for Gold in California. Bulletin 135. Division of Mines. San Francisco This list can go on and on. I'll have a more extensive list at the ICMJ Summit. I'll be the first speaker for the Summit on Saturday April 16th in Placerville (10:30 AM). Hope to see you there.

3 3 That's if for now. Hope this helps some. Thanks. Don See you next month, Cyndy

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9 9 Another Goldhound has been called home to help take care of the gold in heaven Kenneth Gardner was called home on March 8, The service was held on April 2, Ken and his wife, Leona, had been members of the Goldhounds since 1996.

10 News From Annie 10 April 16 & 17- The Gold Summit is happening this year! It will be at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, 100 Placerville Dr., Placerville, CA. Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Sunday 10 AM-4:00 PM. There are hourly lectures on different subjects, about 80 booths and demonstrations, and The NUGGETS will be teaching gold panning. If you want to help The Nuggets let Ray Dodds know. His contact information is below. The Goldhounds usually help out on Friday also with unloading vendor s merchandize, setting up, and take down on Sunday after closing, along with security during the event. There are 4 places that will be needing security. A couple of them may have a space for 2 people. The security positions are for 1 & ½ hours at each position. Before going to your position, please check in at the Goldhounds booth with Cyndy. If you can only make it for one day, that is fine. Your help will be needed! If you would like to help out with this event, please contact Cyndy. She will need for you to sign up and give her your shirt size for your free T-Shirt from ICMJ, for helping out. Hope to see you there! MOTHER LODE NUGGETS Ray Dodds says Thank You to everyone that helped teaching adults and kids during the Roseville Rockroller Gem and Mineral Show. This is always a fun and busy event! We taught a total of 228 vials over the weekend! The proceeds from this event will go toward buying more gold and vials for future events. Thank You to all of the NUGGETS that came out and helped us get this set up, with the teaching on both days, and taking down the town and loading it into the trailer! YOU truly are NUGGETS! The Nuggets can use some help at the following events: April 16 & 17- The ICMJ Gold Summit at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, 100 Placerville Dr., Placerville, CA. Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Sunday 10 AM-4:00 PM. Pssst you don t have to be a Nugget to help the Nuggets. Come on out and join us. If you would like to help the Nuggets with any of these events please contact RAY DODDS at: Phone or by at: mrgoldminr@aol.com The Biggest Nugget of them All! Ray Dodds

11 ICMJ GOLD PROSPECTING AND MINING SUMMIT Our 2016 ICMJ GOLD PROSPECTING AND MINING SUMMIT is only a few days away! Venue: April 16 & April 17, 2016, at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, 100 Placerville Drive, Placerville, California. Over 80 booths featuring the latest in prospecting and mining equipment. (Booth spaces are sold out.) Hours: Saturday, April 16 10am - 5pm Sunday, April 17 10am - 4pm Cost: $5 at the door. Children under 12 are free with a paid adult. (Fairgrounds charges $5 parking.) The Lecture Schedule for Saturday April 16, and Sunday April 17 is now set: Saturday, April 16 How to Research a Promising 10:30am Location for Gold Prospecting Don Robinson 11:30am Staking and Holding Mining Claims Chris Ralph 12:30pm Current Regulations & Permitting Charles Watson 1:30pm Old Mines: Hazards & Benefits for the Professor George Wheeldon Amateur Prospector 2:30pm Gold & Precious Metals Markets Leonard Melman 3:30pm Basic Gold Prospecting Techniques Chris Ralph 4:30pm Raffle Sunday, April 17 10:30am Mineral Identification Chris Ralph Retaking Control of Regulations 11:30am Through Mining Districts Scott Harn & Clark Pearson 12:30pm Metal Detecting for Gold Steve Herschbach 1:30pm Gravity Separation Dr. Thom Seal 2:30pm 3:30pm Raffle Ask The Experts: Question and Answer Session Chris Ralph, Scott Harn, Clark Pearson, Dr. Thom Seal, Pat Keene, Leonard Melman Ongoing: In addition, there will be an Ask The Experts booth throughout Saturday & Sunday staffed with experts in panning, detecting and mineral processing. Bring your questions! There's a suggested donation of $2 (with all proceeds going to Public Lands for the People) but a donation is certainly not required! Kid's Activities:

12 The Mother Lode Goldhounds will have gold panning available, and a kid's scavenger hunt is free of charge. 12 LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE! Mother Lode Goldhounds Schedule of Events 2016 We meet the second Friday of every month from 7-9 pm at the Veterans Hall, 100 East Street, Auburn, CA. Directions: Take Hwy. 80 toward Auburn, get off at Hwy 49 and turn toward downtown Auburn. At the first stop light turn right, drive one block and turn right again. The Veterans Hall sits on your left. Bring your friends. The Public is invited. Come early for snacks, buy door-prize tickets, and visit with friends. goldworld@wildblue.net Special Events Schedule for 2016 April 16-17, 2016 ICMJ Gold Summit and Show Hope you are planning to attend, we could always use help with this event!

13 13 May 12 16, 2016 Monthly meeting will be held at this event. August 13, 2016 Sept. 2-5, 2016 Sept , 2016 Oct , 2016 Bear River Campground Outing #1 Members Only Outing See below for more details Auburn Heritage Trails event - Watch for more information later this year. Labor Day weekend and we will be having our State and National Gold Panning Championships! We will be sending out more information on this as it gets closer. World Gold Panning Championships in Placerville, CA More information as it gets closer. Bear River Campground Outing #2 Members Only Outing See below for more details Bear River Outings It looks like we will be having 2 outings at the Bear River Group Campground this year! The first on May th and the second one on October Just a gentle reminder, these outings are for MEMBERS ONLY. So make sure that your membership is up to date. There will be more information on this next month. Bear River Outing May 12 May 16, 2016 Make sure your Application/Disclaimers and dues are up to date so you can join us at this fun-filled outing! If you have a question about, feel free to contact me at or me at: cyned0523@yahoo.com. This is the Group Campground that we use at the Bear River. Instructions on how to get there are at the end of this message. Please direct any further questions to me. There will be a sign-in area when you come into the camping area. Please sign in immediately before setting up camp. There will be someone at the sign-in area. This outing is for Members Only. The club pays for the campgrounds. You only need to bring supplies for yourself plus for the Saturday night and Sunday Morning Breakfast Potlucks. BRING WATER for drinking and clean up, there is no running water at the campground. You can come in for a day outing or stay for every day and night, or anything in between. The campground is ours completely. It will not be used by others. There will be a lock on the gate, with a combination setting of This is a simple tumbler lock where you set each number and then open the lock. When you re-lock it, turn some of the tumblers off the combination. This is the same for each of the past few years. It s important for you to re-lock the gate after every entrance and exit, and make sure the lock is through the Placer County lock. That way they can get in and out if they need to. We ll have a potluck dinner on Saturday evening starting at 5:00PM, and you all know we start on time! Bring a dish to share for eight (8) people. Be prepared and have your food ready and on the table by no later than 4:45 PM.

14 18 th Annual Potluck Breakfast will be held on Sunday morning and will start at 8:00 am. You don t want to miss this either. Be sure to bring juice, rolls, or other breakfast goodies to share with others. As for mining and prospecting equipment, within the park area is non-motorized; meaning motorized equipment of ANY kind is not allowed. Not even solar powered mining equipment. We can run motorized equipment below the park area where we always do (no dredging of course). This means we can power sluice. The one requirement for power sluicing is that the water and tailings from the sluice cannot run back into the river. It must be dissipated by a holding dam or by running back into the bench gravels and disappearing. Normal hand sluicing is permitted within the park area. The lower boundaries will be flagged so you ll know you can start if you want to power sluice. Detecting, sluicing, sniping, and panning are permitted in the park area and outside as well. There are no restrictions here. At this moment campfires are not permitted. This may change before the outing. We generally are permitted to have a group campfire. The facility consists of pit toilets, picnic tables and river access. You may park along the road but not on the bench area itself. Do not block the road. Bring plenty of drinking water, chairs, extra tables and pop-ups if you have them. The weather is always subject to change at this time of year. Be prepared! The Bear River Campground is only on the park side of the river where we camp. The opposite bank is private land so please keep that in mind. This is a super outing for us and we ll likely have 90 or more people. Parking your rig, tent, etc., is important to conserve space. We ll likely have someone directing parking. I want to remind everyone, if you belong to another group and have been camping in the campground before us, you must pack up your site and leave with that group. You can then get in line to re-enter the campground with us. We go into the campgrounds as a group only. This is to satisfy our group insurance, and out of fairness to our all members. Directions Take Hwy 80, going toward Reno from Auburn. About 10 miles past Auburn, take the West Weimar Crossroads off of Interstate 80. Go left over the freeway, (North) for 1.5 miles. Turn right at the T intersection at Placer Hills Road, travel 2.5 miles to Plum Tree Road and turn left on Plum Tree Road to the Bear River Park/Campground on your left. The Parking lot is on the left at the bottom of the hill, turn left into the parking lot, then g, through the Green Gate at the far left of the parking lot (combo 7-7-7). This private group campground is about one mile after you go through the gate. Be sure to lock the gate thru the other lock when you come in or leave. For those of you coming the first time we recommend you use the instructions above There is another way through Colfax, if you know it. It s a good way to go as well if you are familiar with the route. Watch your s for any other information as we get closer to the outing date. 14

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16 World Gold Panning Championships It's time for another gold rush! Gold panners from around the world agree, and will head to Placerville and the El Dorado County Fairgrounds in September. The World Gold Panning Championships will take place there from September 11th to the 18 th. The event is expected to draw hundreds of international competitors from over 22 countries around the globe, along with a large and very competitive group of locals from all over gold country and the United States. The weeklong event, El Dorado County Gold Week, will be festive, educational, colorful, and is sure to showcase the skills needed to compete at this level. The championship will open with a parade of nations on Main Street in Placerville, and it just gets better from there. Expect music, people in 1849 costumes, educational stations for students, gems and minerals, craftspeople with handmade treasures, dancing, and a wide variety of food, along with much more, including the legendary Studebaker Wheelbarrow Races. Excursions to Coloma to see the Coloma Players and the historic Sutters Mill, Gold Bug Park in Placerville, the wine country, Historic Main Street Placerville, and Apple Hill just start the list of things to do when you're not watching the world s best panner s finding gold in their pans. An impressive list of community sponsors has signed on for the event. Spearheaded by Richard Uncle Fuzzy and Joyce Mason, the organizing committee has been working since early 2013 to bring the Championships back to the California's gold country. Community members up and down Highway 49 have pitched in to make this a memorable event for everyone. For a full look at what's ahead, go to the event website at Make plans now to be a part of this new gold rush. Bring your pans and join the competition! Goldhounds Meeting Schedule for 2016 April 8, 2016 May 13, 2016 Goldhound meeting at Bear River Outing June 10, 2016 July 8, 2016 Goldhound meeting Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA No meeting at the Veterans Hall We will hold the meeting at the Bear River Outing The outing is Members Only Goldhound meeting Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA Goldhound meeting Ice Cream Social!!! Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA

17 17 Aug. 12, 2016 Sept. 9, 2016 Oct. 14, 2016 Nov. 11, 2016 (subject to change) Dec. 9, 2016 Goldhound meeting Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA Goldhound meeting Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA Goldhound meeting Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA Goldhound meeting Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA Goldhound meeting Auburn Veterans Hall, 100 East St., Auburn, CA GOLDHOUNDS OUTINGS & SPECIAL PROSPECTING TRIPS GOLDHOUNDS OUTINGS SET-UP AND COORDINATION BY ROBERT JORDAN Hello Goldhounds, This year we are going to take a few day trips to the American River North fork and the Bear River. Starting in February and running through October on the second Saturday of each month. There will also be one campout other than the Bear River and the Gold Panning Championships. The day trips will be for gold panning, sluicing, and metal detecting. I will post directions the month before each trip comes around. Robert Jordan Robster132@gmail.com OUTING INFORMATION WILL BE SENT THE MONTH BEFORE EACH TRIP. BE SURE WE HAVE YOUR CORRECT ADDRESS. OTHER CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA) We meet the third Saturday in January, April, July and October River City Prospectors Chapter meets quarterly in Rio Linda, CA. GPAA has member only claims and outings. Their Pick & Shovel Gazette has good information for everyone who supports mining. For GPAA Gold Show dates check: or call The club has claims and outings for members. Their Pick & Shovel Gazette has good information for everyone! Contact Jim Hutchings at (530) or contact the GPAA at Visit

18 18 Roseville Rock Roller Gem & Mineral Society Meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at the Placerville Fairgrounds in Roseville, 800 All American City Blvd. or Sacramento Valley Detecting Buffs Meetings on the first Thursday of every month at the Sacramento County Old SMUD Building, corner of Elkhorn & Don Julio in North Highlands, CA. El Dorado County Mineral & Gem Society Call (530) or visit Placerville Gold Country Treasure Seekers A club for metal detecting enthusiasts. For more information contact Ken Wright, k2wright@mindspring.com Gold Pan California, Gold Adventures 1021 Detroit Ave., Concord, CA For more information call (925) 825-GOLD Golden Caribou Mining A small-scale mining gold club in Belden, CA. For more information call (530) or visit UPI - United Prospectors Meets every other month at outings, President@unitedprospectors.com - Info Club can offer outings to claims E. Orangebury Ave., Modesto, phone (209) Shasta Miners Club has claims for members use. Meetings at 7 PM on the third Wednesday of every month at the Moose Lodge on Lake Blvd. in Shasta, CA., just up from Shopko on the left. Call (530) The 16 to 1 Underground Gold Miners Museum Contact them for tours of a working underground mine and special events. (530) Write: PO Box 907, Alleghany, CA info@undergroundgold.com Comstock Gold Prospectors Meetings on the fourth Tuesday of every month at the Masonic Lodge, 2425 Pyramid Way, Sparks, NV. Write P.O. Box 20781, Reno, NV or visit

19 Western Mining Alliance Miners who fight for our rights to dredge and mine in California. WMA has a great online newsletter and a great people to work with. Visit: westermingalliance@gmail.com ICMJ s PROSPECTING AND MINING JOURNAL - Scott Harn, Editor, and his team works hard to get this monthly mining magazine on line & in the mail. Check them out. - info@icmj.com ICMJ offers current news on the dredging regulations, PLP, Miner s Alliance, and are the best online source of recent gold news. You can search for great how-to and where-to articles on dredging, metal detecting, mining operations, assaying, legislative updates, geology, history, metals prices and financial news. 19 Public Lands for the People PUBLIC LANDS FOR THE PEOPLE Conejo Dr., San Bernardino, CA 92404, (909) , P.L.P. continues to work on your behalf to keep public lands open. Donations are tax deductible. They have great raffles posted in the ICMJ to help with attorney fees and they need help! Fighting for your right to mine is very expensive so PLP is auctioning off any donations you can make to help raise money. If you can help they will take just about anything from old heirlooms to vehicles. PLP hosts a running auction for gold on ebay. AMRA - American Mining Rights Association is a 501 (c)(3) Non-profit Association and was created by miners and public land users, for miners and public land users to preserve and maintain their rights as they pertain to access to their public lands and their rights to obtain the minerals on those lands. We are not a gold club but rather an advocacy group. American Mining Rights Association PMB #607, 6386 Greeley Hill Rd., Coulterville, CA support@americanminingrights.com johnr@americanminingrights.com shannonp@americanminingrights.com

20 20 GOLDHOUND MEETING AND MEMBER INFORMATION NAME BADGES: Club name badges can be ordered at any club meeting. See Member Stephen Johnson at the meeting as you come in the door - Badge with Pin Clasp: $4.50 Magnetic Badge: $5.00. FORREST GRIBBLE is in charge of our Monthly Raffles. Thank You Forrest for all you do to help the club out. You and your Dad (Ron) are a real blessing to our Nuggets & Goldhounds. GOLDHOUND T-SHIRTS See Cyndy Burchard if you are interested in a Goldhounds T-shirt. You can call at or her at: cyned0523@yahoo.com. Cyndy will need to know what size you need, and for the women, whether you want a Gold OR Pink one. If you worked at the Gold Panning Championships and signed in with the person in charge, you will receive a shirt. Otherwise they are $16 each. Announcement on Jackets and T-shirts I have the T-shirts and Jackets from Dancing Dawg Productions. If you haven t paid me for your Jacket, now is the time! If you see these jackets and would like to place an order, please Cyndy Burchard. We need to have at least 12 at a time to get them back quickly. The cost is $45 each. GOLDHOUND PATCH for your hat or jacket are can be bought at each meeting for $6.00 each. See Cyndy Burchard CYNDY BURCHARD is in charge of our membership and is the club Secretary, as well as our Sunshine Lady. Cyndy also sends s out for the Goldhounds. A BIG THANK YOU to Cyndy for all her hard work. GOLDHOUND MEETINGS are held the 2 nd Friday of each month at the Auburn Veterans Hall, 7:00PM-9:00PM, 100 EAST ST., AUBURN, CA. Take Hwy. 80 toward Auburn, get off at Hwy 49 and turn toward Old Town Auburn. At the Lincoln turn right, go one short block and turn right again on to East Street. The Veterans Hall sits on the left, parking is in the back. Invite your friends, the public is always welcome to attend.

21 GOLDHOUND CLASSIFIEDS Do you have something for sale? For Barter? A request of your fellow miner s? Or just want to offer something free for the asking? List it free for all Goldhounds, here on the Goldhound Classifieds. Send your ad and contact information to Sherry Andersen at SherryRocks57@gmail.com along with any photos needed. Your ad will be in the next newsletter and can go on the Goldhounds Live page on Goldhounds.com web site if requested. Here are some idea's for gifts for the guy who has everything: SHERRY this is RAY DODDS asking for a space in the newsletter Up For Sale: 40 acre claim Slate Creek, Yuba County. Lots of bedrock, steep canyon. $2,000 For information Call Ray (530) Or MrGoldMinr@aol.com 21 PLP auctions on ebay. Contact PLP at Remember, these auctions help to raise money for PLP to keep fighting our mining and dredging rights.

22 22 The Keene A52 sluice measures 101/4 wide by 501/2 long - the flare is 18 across at the top and has miner s carpet and a classifier ($110.00). The E-Z sluice I also want to sell is 71/4 wide by 30 long. The flare on the E-Z sluice is 121/2 wide at the top - It has miner s moss($45.00). Contact Bob Nordhausen embob209@comcast.net THE MOTHER LODE GOLDHOUND NAME, IMAGES, AND PHOTOS ARE THE PROPERTY of Mother Lode Goldhounds and cannot be used without expressed written permission. Don t even try it, remember, we hang claim jumpers.

23 The Mother Lode Goldhounds and Nuggets want to Thank Hansen Brothers for their generous donations of gravel used by the Nuggets during gold panning demonstrations and lessons. 23

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26 26 GOLDHOUND MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION For questions regarding your membership status please contact Cyndy Burchard at or call (530) If you would like to join/renew your membership, please print out this form and send the completed form with a check/money order payable to: Mother Lode Goldhounds, P.O. Box 1371, Colfax, CA ( ) $40.00 Individual ( ) $45.00 Family ( ) Senior & Spouse (age 70+) $30 ( ) New membership or ( ) Renewal (one year applies to all) NAME ADDRESS PHONE CITY STATE ZIP CODE I hereby apply for membership/renewal with the Mother Lode Goldhounds. I fully understand Mother Lode Goldhounds and its agents do not provide goods or services for any of my activities including, for example, mining equipment or supplies, lodging, transportation, food, etc. Mother Lode Goldhounds is not liable for any negligent or unwillful act or failure to act by providers of such goods or services during my activities. I acknowledge that there may be certain risks involved with activities as a member including, but not limited to, rugged or uneven terrain, uncertain or unpredictable river currents, physical exertion for which I am not prepared, or other unknown forces of nature, high altitude, accident or illness without access to means or rapid evacuation or availability of medical supplies, the adequacy of medical attention once provided, or negligence on part of Mother Lode Goldhounds. I hereby agree to be responsible for my own welfare and accept any and all risks of unanticipated events, illness, injury, emotional, trauma or death. I acknowledge that the cost of Mother Lode Goldhounds membership is based upon participants executing this release of liability. That whatever recreational event I, or my family attend, I am responsible and at no time will have legal or financial claim against, nor will hold responsible, any member or club official of the Mother Lode Goldhounds for any damages or injuries. I agree that this release shall be legally binding upon me personally, all members of my family and all minors travelling with me, my heirs, successors, assigns and legal representatives, it being my intention to fully assume all risk associated with my activities as a member of the Mother Lode Goldhounds. I have read and fully understand this release and membership application. SIGNATURE DATE

27 27 Frank, finding nuggets on the North Fork. NEWSLETTER ISSUED MONTHLY - Issue #337 April 2016 Mailing address: MOTHER LODE GOLDHOUNDS P.O. Box 149, Foresthill, Ca A CALIFORNIA NON-PROFIT MINERALS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION PUBLIC WELCOME! One Year Membership: $45.00 Family $40.00 Individual Editor: Sherry Andersen (916) SherryRocks57@gmail.com Goldhounds (530) goldworld@wildblue.net