Rocky Mountain Prospectors & Treasure Hunters Newsletter

The News
v. 17, n. 11 November, 2013 Going for the Gold Visit RMPTH On The Internet At http://rmpth.com

Contents
1 2 3 4 6 6 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 18 19 RMPTH Meeting Changes About The News Mystery Locket Surfaces In Breckenridge Creek Sunken Treasure Off The Dominican Coast Roman Treasure Haul Colorado Treasure Tale Crater of Diamonds State Park Gives Up Another Big One Calendar of Events Calendars More Treasure At U.S. Pirate Shipwreck Annual Show & Tell Annual Silent Auction Trading Post 2013 Schedule of Events Contact List

RMPTH MEETING CHANGES

PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR MONTHLY MEETING SCHEDULES HAVE CHANGED! MONTHLY CLUB MEETINGS WILL NOW BEGIN AT 6:00PM BEGINNING IN JANUARY THIS TIME CHANGE WILL ALSO ALLOW US TO RESUME OUR FIND OF THE MONTH PROGRAM EACH MONTH BY POPULAR REQUEST. IN ADDITION, NOTE THAT MONTHLY BOARD MEETINGS WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE: 2ND THURSDAY, 6:00PM PERKINS RESTAURANT LOVELAND EAST 6020 STALLION DRIVE SOUTH OF THE RANCH CHECKING THIS MONTHS CALENDAR YOU WILL FIND THE NEXT TWO BOARD MEETINGS CHANGED AS FOLLOWS: NOVEMBERTHURSDAY 7TH DECEMBERTHURSDAY 19TH THESE TWO EXCEPTIONS WERE THE RESULT OF PRIOR COMMITMENTS BY PERKINS. REMEMBER: ALL MEMBERS ARE WELCOME, AND ENCOURAGED, TO ATTEND THE BOARD MEETINGS!

The Discovery Of Gold In California

"The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living." - Anonymous

About The News

Advertising Classified advertising for topic related items is free for non-business ads. See the Trading Post section for donation pricing of camera-ready display ads. Donations for ad makeup from sketches, etc., are available on request. About RMPTH RMPTH is an independent nonprofit hobbyist social club, open to anyone interested in prospecting, detecting or treasure hunting. Its purpose is to provide an educational and social forum of mutual benefit for members. RMPTH holds a monthly meeting and conducts various field outings, as well as offers special presentations and seminars. Active participants have voting privileges. The monthly newsletter, The News, is readily available on the Internet. Annual dues are $25 payable in June. Applicants joining in any month other than June pay partial dues of $2 per month for months remaining prior to following June plus $1.

he News is the official newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Prospectors and Treasure Hunters Club (RMPTH): our mailing address is 278 Sierra Vista Drive, Fort Collins, CO. 80524. Opinions expressed in The News are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the club or its members. Publication of information in The News constitutes no guarantee of accuracy. Use of any information found in this publication is at the sole risk of the user. Neither RMPTH, nor its coordinators, nor The News, nor its editors or contributors assume any liability for damages resulting from use of information in this publication. Submissions

Articles, letters and short items of interest on prospecting, detecting and treasure hunting topics are welcome and encouraged. All items submitted for publication are subject to editing. Submittals for publication may be made in writing or, preferably, in ASCII text format on IBM-compatible disk. If you have questions about a submission, please contact the editor for information. Copyright Unless otherwise noted, other nonprofit groups may reprint or quote from any articles appearing in The News without prior permission, provided that proper author and publication credits are given and that a copy of the publication in which the article appears is sent at no cost to RMPTH at the above mailing address. Clubs wishing to exchange newsletters with RMPTH are invited to send a copy of their newsletter together with an exchange request.

CLUB MEMBERS TAKE NOTE

Club Hats, Shirts, Jackets, & Patches are again available. See Paul Mayhak at the club meetings to purchase your club items! We will be running a 50/50 Drawing at each club meeting. At the end of each meeting Tom will split the pot 50/50 and a lucky member will go home with more money than they came with.! The remaining 50% goes to the club treasury.
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Mystery Locket Surfaces In Breckenridge Creek

Breckenridge Heritage Alliance Posted by: Jen Baldwin uring the second week of July, a family was vacationing in Breckenridge. While looking for fools gold in a creek just above Maggies Pond, they discovered a locket. A very special locket. The piece is not terribly large, but certainly unique. Found without a chain. The visiting family have since returned home, but are hoping to reunite the locket and its family. Although the exact age of the item is unknown, it certainly appears to have been waiting in the rubble for some time, waiting for that moment of discovery. Dry inside, the outer ages have rust and calcium deposits. The only hint to ownership is the photograph found inside with the note, age 18. The front has an engraved cluster of grapes, with what appear to be either white or light purple gems in it, with three missing. Please take a look at the following pictures, sent to us by the family that recovered it. If you have any idea or suggestions as to how we might be able to identify an owner, please contact the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance. http://breckheritage.com/mystery-locket-surfaces-inbreckenridge-creek EdI love personal finds like this. Who was this lady and what stories could she tell? Amazing find from years ago.

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." - Mark Twain

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Found in a creek above Maggies Pond, Breckenridge. July 2013.

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Sunken Treasure Off The Dominican Coast

Published September 14, 2013 n the briny waters off the Dominican Republic, a Florida-based treasure hunting firm discovered the remains of a 450-year sunken ship with the largest cache of 16th century pewter tableware ever discovered, extremely rare Spanish silver coins from the late 1400s through the mid 1500s and several gold artifacts. Divers from Anchor Research and Salvage working with the Punta Cana Foundation excavated the wreck site under contract with the Underwater Cultural Heritage division of the Dominican Minister of Culture. It is one of a number of dive sites the Florida company has been working on in Dominican waters. While it's possible to determine the price of the gold and silver found, the pewter which includes plates, platters, porringers, salts and flagons is going to take longer to nail down. It could go well into the millions, experts say. Shipwreck archaeologists estimate that there are several billion dollars of submerged treasures in the southern coastal area alone, and possibly 10 times that amount waiting in Anchor Research and Salvage target areas. "Sample artifacts from these newly discovered wreck sites indicate that we may have found an entire fleet of early Galleons that wrecked on their way back to Spain carrying the riches of the new world, said Robert Pritchett, the CEO of Global Marine Exploration, Inc., the parent company of Anchor Research and Salvage. The announcement of the Dominican discovery comes less than a month after a Florida family found a cache of buried treasure off the Florida coast worth an estimated to be valued around $300,000. Diving about 150 yards off the coast of Fort Pierce, on the Atlantic side of the state, the Schmitt family discovered 64 feet of gold chain, five gold coins and a gold ring that had been sitting in the briny depths off the Florida coast for around 300 years. The treasure was from a fleet of Spanish ships that went down dur(Continued on page 5)

"In June, 1868 banker George T. Clark, Wells Fargo's agent in Central City, reported $62,000 in gold and silver shipments through his office that week." -- "Wells Fargo in Colorado Territory" by W. Turrentine Jackson

Gold Glossary
JET - A component on a suction dredge that water is pumped into, and which creates a suction up through the suction hose. The jet is designed so that streambed material can be pumped directly to the recovery system without having to be run through the water pump.

TREASURE HUNTERS CODE OF ETHICS

I WILL respect private property and do no treasure hunting without the owner's permission. I WILL fill all excavations. I WILL appreciate and protect our heritage of natural resources, wildlife, and private property. I WILL use thoughtfulness, consideration, and courtesy at all times. I WILL build fires in designated or safe places only. I WILL leave gates as found. I WILL remove and properly dispose of any trash that I find. I WILL NOT litter. I WILL NOT destroy property, buildings, or what is left of ghost towns and deserted structures. I WILL NOT tamper with signs, structural facilities, or equipment.

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Mineral Specimen Identification

As part of their community outreach, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Dep. of Earth & Atmospheric Science, Professional Services Division offers FREE MINERAL SPECIMEN IDENTIFICATION. Participants will aid in the education of future Geoscientists! Details and specimen submittal forms with instructions can be downloaded from: SPECIAL OFFER FREE MINERAL SPECIMEN http://college.earthscienceeducation.net/MINPET/ MINID.pdf

ing a strong hurricane on July 30, 1715, claiming 11 ships and more than 1,000 lives. Gold, silver and other riches were strewn across the sandy bottom off Florida's coast. While much of the goods were recovered in the years following the storm, treasure hunters and historians alike tend to think that millions of dollars worth of gold and silver still lay hidden just offshore. "To be the first person to touch an artifact in 300 years is indescribable," said Brent Brisben, cofounder of 1715 Fleet Queens Jewels LLC, the company that owns the rights to dive on the wreckage site. "They were there 150 years before the Civil War. It's truly remarkable to be able to bring that back." Follow us on twitter.com/foxnewslatino Like us at facebook.com/foxnewslatino

Property Wanted For Detector Hunt

RMPTH is looking for private property on which to hold an organized club detector hunt. Obviously, it would be most ideal if this property is known to have seen some past historical activity. If you have such property or know of someone who does, please contact Rick Mattingly to plan a club field outing event.

Refreshment Volunteers
November Ted & Faye Croswell

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Roman Treasure Haul

Amateur treasure hunter unearths haul of Roman coins with 300 metal detector he bought off a friend By Dalya Alberge 31 August 2013 atch of the day: Dorset fisherman Jason Hemmings is usually satisfied when he finds a scallop, let alone a selection of historic coins. Dorset fisherman Jason Hemmings, 41, makes stunning find in field. Fifteen-coin find hailed by British Museum as 'very exciting discovery'. It is believed a soldier dropped the money about 2,000 years ago. Back then, the cash would have funded eight loaves of bread. An amateur fisherman snared himself an unusual catch - a haul of Roman and Iron Age coins, hailed by the British Museum as a 'very excting discovery'. Jason Hemmings usually spends his time plucking sea bass from the ocean. But, having recently bought a metal detector and taken up treasure hunting as a hobby, He struck gold in a field in Owermoigne, Dorset, finding 15 bronze and silver coins that may have been lying there for 2,000 years. Mr Hemmings, 41, began his hobby when he purchased the detector for 300 from a friend who wanted to upgrade his own. After scouring the field, he unearthed the first coin and, initially, that seemed to be it. 'I had a quick search and couldnt find anything else,' he said. 'I had to go home for Sunday roast. But I went back the next day, and thats when I came across more.' The machine was giving off such faint, intermittent signals that his friend did not think it was worth the effort of digging, but he persevered,. and the rest is history. He followed the required procedure in reporting the discovery under the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which encourages the voluntary recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. The local finds liaison officer realized its significance immediately. Although its financial value is low just a few hundred pounds - the hoard is historically very important.

Colorado Treasure Tale

South Park And The Reynolds Gang n July 1864, Jim Reynolds and eight Confederate raiders launched the only invasion of the Colorado Territory during the Civil War. Their hope was to rob the gold mines of the area to help finance the Confederate cause. Immediately up to no good, the gang attacked the ranch of Adolph Guirand on July 24, 1864, stealing his horses, cash, and molesting his wife. They then headed to Dan McLaughlin's stage station, about eight miles out of Fairplay, where the town of Como is today. Stealing cash, a gold watch, and the horses, they made off with about $3,000. Then heading over Kenosha pass toward Denver, they again robbed the Michigan House stage stop, taking more horses. A gentleman by the name of Mr. Berry began to warn everyone of the gang and their thievery trying to raise a posse without success. Not to be deterred, Mr. Berry followed the gang as far as the Omaha House stage station near the present day town of Conifer. From the Omaha House, the gang headed towards Shaffers Crossing. Finally, a posse was organized and on July 30, 1864, the outlaws were spotted camping in a forest. A gunfight quickly ensued, leaving one outlaw by the name of Owen Singleterry dead. One posse member, a Dr. Cooper, cut off Singleterrys head, took it back to Fairplay and preserved it in alcohol, where it supposedly remained for many years. The gang buried their loot and split up, fleeing the area. It was estimated that the gang had taken somewhere between $5,000 and $100,000 and area locals blamed them for every robbery within miles.
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An even bigger posse was raised to capture the fleeing bandits. About seventy-five men were dispatched to find the thieves and just four days later, four of them were captured. Outlaw, Tom Holliman, was caught just days later as he made his way to Canon City, Colorado. However, Jim Reynolds, his brother John, and another bandit escaped to New Mexico. As the five captured bandits were being taken to Fort Lyon, the first stop on their way to Denver for a military trial, a fight ensued. Three of outlaws were killed and two managed to escape.

Years later, John Reynolds lay dying of gunshot wounds suffered during a horse theft in Taos, New Mexico. However, before he died, he shared the story of how the gang had buried their loot, to fellow outlaw Albert Brown. He also drew a map, which showed the site of the ambush and the vague location of the treasure. After Reynolds died from his wounds, Brown and his partners traveled to the South Park area, trying to find the treasure. When they arrived at the site, they were disappointed to find that a forest fire had destroyed many landmarks. While they found an old white hat that supposedly belonged to the decapitated Singleterry, a headless skeleton, and horse bones in a swamp, they were unable to find the rocked-in pros(Continued on page 9)

Brilliant specimen of crystalline Native Gold with Tellurides! This lustrous specimen features a network of interwoven crystals with darker Tellurides scattered about. The colorful toning of this specimen speaks to its age, as the color varies from bright golden-yellow to the gorgeous reddish-orange patina. From the German Bar Mine, Alleghany, Forest District, Sierra Co., California. Weight is approximately 28 grams. Measures 3 cm by 4.7 cm by 2.2 cm in total size. The Mineral Gallery, Inc.
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Crater of Diamonds State Park Gives Up Another Big One

Oklahoma Teen, Tana Clymer, Finds 3.85Carat Diamond At Park In Arkansas 10/21/13 MURFREESBORO, Ark. (AP)

"This canary diamond is very similar to the gemquality, 4.21-carat canary diamond found at the Crater of Diamonds by Oklahoma State Trooper Marvin Culver of Nowata, Oklahoma, on March 12, 2006, a gem he named the Okie Dokie Diamond," said Bill Henderson, assistant park superintendent. Tana named the diamond "God's Jewel," park officials said. "Tana told me that she was so excited, she couldn't sleep last night," Henderson said Sunday. "She's either going to keep the diamond for a ring, or, if it's worth a lot, she'll want that for college." Many diamonds have been found close to the surface so far this year, Henderson said, noting that heavy rainfall pushes dirt away, leaving the diamond exposed. Her gem is the 396th diamond found so far this year at the park in southern Arkansas. Other gems discovered at the state park include amethyst, garnet, peridot, jasper, agate, calcite, barite, and quartz. HuffingtonPost.com

14-year-old girl from Oklahoma City has unearthed a 3.85-carat diamond at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park.

Tana Clymer discovered the canary gem Saturday at the park, which is the only diamond-producing site in the United States that is open to the public. Tana said she'd been digging in the dirt for about two hours when she discovered the gem on the surface of the search field. The yellow diamond is teardrop-shaped and about the size of a jellybean.

Gods Jewel 3.85 Caret Diamond

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pect hole. Brown and his partners made three more attempts to find the treasure, but finally gave up and returned home. Albert Brown later died in a drunken brawl in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. However, before he died, he either gave or showed the map to a Detective David J. Cook, a Colorado Lawman. In an autobiography by Detective Cook, published in 1897, Cook quotes Reynolds conversation with Alfred Brown as follows: "Jim and me buried the treasure the morning before the posse attack on Geneva Gulch. You go up above there a little ways and find where one of our horses mired down in a swamp. On up at the head of the gulch we turned to the right and followed the mountain around a little farther, and just above the head of Deer Creek, we found an old prospect hole at about timberline. There, we placed $40,000 in greenbacks, wrapped in silk oil cloth, and three cans of gold dust. We filled the mouth of the hole up with stones, and ten steps below, struck a butcher knife into a tree about four feet from the ground and broke the handle off, and left it pointing toward the mouth of the hole. By all accounts, the money remains buried somewhere in the South Park area.

RMPTH Members please note that Vice President Tom Warne has experienced a recurrence of his serious health issue and has relinquished his board position until further notice or election. The Board has elected member Shane Menenti to fill Toms position as Interim Vice President. Our hopes and best wishes go out to Tom Warne that he experiences a quick recovery!
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Calendar of Events
November Meeting Wednesday, November 6. We will meet at the Pulliam Building in downtown Loveland at 7:00PM. Refer to the adjoining map for directions. Meeting Agenda 6:00 - 7:00 Planning, Social Hour & Silent Auction Setup 7:00 - 7:30 Business, Announcements & Find of the Month Program 7:30 - 7:45 Break 7:45 - 9:00 Annual Show and Tell by RMPTH members. Silent Auction.

RMPTH DUES
RMPTH is an unincorporated Social Club with no income generated. All expenses are covered by $25 annual dues. Members are requested to consider minor donations at each monthly meeting to cover refreshments.

Visit RMPTH On The Internet At http://rmpth.com

MAP TO THE MEETING PLACE Pulliam Community Building 545 Cleveland Avenue, Loveland, Colorado

Directions: The Pulliam Community Building is situated on the west side of Cleveland Avenue in Loveland, Colorado. Park at the rear of the building (west side). Entry to the meeting room is from the doorway on the south side of the building (not the main entrance on Cleveland Avenue!).
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RMPTH Field Outing Statement

NOTE: The Coordinators and participants stay in touch and continue to review and plan upcoming presentations and outings for the year on a monthly basis. Our editor Rick Mattingly needs timely event information for each issue of The News. Please get information about any particular event to him by the 15th of the month to meet the printing deadline for the next issue. Planned trips, outings, activities, and meeting programs are in the newsletter and on line at the clubs website. Planning is a work in progress and additional outings and activities are added and sometimes deleted on an ongoing basis. Events planned in the upcoming month are emphasized to the attendees at the monthly meetings. Contact the Presentations Coordinators or Editor if you have any suggestions or ideas throughout the year for fieldtrips, outings, and programs. The best made plans may change at the last minute due to the illness of the Trail Boss, weather, land access, vehicles breaking down, wrong meeting sites, etc. Please be understanding of extenuating circumstances and contact the coordinator or Trail Boss of a specific event if there is any question of an event being cancelled or changed at the last minute.

Instead of packing up for the year, Clifford is planning another trip to the Whydah, the only authenticated pirate ship wreck in U.S. waters. "I can hardly wait," Clifford said. The Whydah was built as a slave ship in 1716 and captured in February 1717 by pirate captain "Black Sam" Bellamy. Just two months later, it sank in a ferocious storm a quarter-mile (400 meters) off Wellfleet, Massachusetts, killing Bellamy and all but two of the 145 other men on board and taking down the plunder from 50 vessels Bellamy raided. Clifford located the Whydah site in 1984 and has since documented 200,000 artifacts, including gold, guns and even the leg of a young boy who took up with the crew. He only recently got indications there may be far more coins than the roughly 12,000 he's already documented. Just before his death in April, the Whydah project's late historian, Ken Kinkor, uncovered a Colonial-era document indicating that in the weeks before the Whydah sank, Bellamy raided two vessels bound for Jamaica. "It is said that in those vessels were 400,000 pieces of 8/8," it read. The 8/8 indicates one ounce (28 grams), the weight of the largest coin made at that time, Clifford said.

More Treasure At U.S. Pirate Shipwreck

September 10, 2013 10:04AM ndersea explorer Barry Clifford will dive back into the water after he and his team uncovered an unexplored trove of buried treasure that he said may lead to the discovery of more than 400,000 gold coins in the wreck of the treasure-laden pirate ship, Whydah, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Clifford located the Whydah site in 1984. Fog was swallowing his ship's bow, the winds were picking up and undersea explorer Barry Clifford figured he needed to leave within an hour to beat the weather back to port. It was time enough, he decided, for a final dive of the season over the wreck of the treasure-laden pirate ship, Whydah, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. That Sept. 1 dive at a spot Clifford had never explored before uncovered proof that a staggering amount of undiscovered riches -- as many as 400,000 coins-- might be found there.

"Now we know there's an additional 400,000 coins out there somewhere," he said. The final dive may have provided a big hint at where. Diver Rocco Paccione said he had low expectations when Clifford excavated a pit about 35 feet (10.5 meters) below the surface and sent him down. But his metal detector immediately came alive with positive, or hot, readings. "This pit was pretty much hot all the way through," he said. The most significant artifact brought up by Paccione was an odd-shape concretion, sort of a rocky mass that forms when chemical reactions with seawater bind metals together. X-rays this week revealed coin-shaped masses, including some that appear to be stacked as if they were kept in bags, which is how a surviving Whydah pirate testified that the crewmen stored their riches. Clifford doesn't sell Whydah treasures and said he would never sell the coins individually because he sees them as historical artifacts, not commodities. But he has given coins away as mementos. Two have been sold at the Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC auction house in Florida, with the highest going for about $11,400. The price per
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Whydah coin would plummet if tens of thousands hit the market, but a retail price of $1,000 each is a reasonable guess, said Augi Garcia, manager at the auction. Ed Rodley, who studied Whydah artifacts during graduate studies in archaeology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, said the Whydah site keeps producing treasure decades after its discovery partly because it's so tough to work. The site is on the edge of the surf zone, where waves start breaking toward shore. Clifford needs seven anchors to hold the boat in place and the murky ocean bottom is just as active underneath him. Rodley said any pits dug by archaeologists would collapse within hours. What Clifford has gradually gotten to, three centuries after the Whydah went down, is impressive, Rodley said. "It's crazy the stuff that's come out of that site and keeps coming out of that site, year after year after year," he said.

6 Things About The Dollar

You might be surprised by what you don't know about the mighty greenback. By MarketWatch Better to be Ben than Abe

hile use is the obvious reason for the different lifespans, you can bet they would be considerably shorter if the bills were made out of actual paper. The Federal Reserve gives its makeup as one-fourth linen and three-fourths cotton. The average life of a Federal Reserve note depends upon its denomination: $1: 21 months $5: 16 months $10: 18 months $20: 2 years $50: 4.5 years $100: 7.5 years And if you have a bill that has reached the end of the line and it would like exchange it, but no bank will take it, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is the place you want to contact. 4,000 folds We're sure at some point all people have asked themselves, How many times would I have to fold this bill backward and forward before it would rip in half? Right? Here's your answer: 4,000. And before you ask, no, 3,999, won't do it. More than $900 million a day The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces 26 million notes a day, with a face value of about $907 million. To give you an idea of how that fits into the overall scheme of things, according to the Federal Reserve, there was roughly $1.2 trillion in circulation as of July 24, although $1.15 trillion of that total was in Federal Reserve notes. It costs how much to make $1? About 45% of the notes printed each year are $1, and 95% are used as replacement notes. (There's a lot of folding going on.) Despite what one would think would be only minor differences in the cost to make different denominations, the Federal Reserve says
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RMPTH SHOW & TELL

At the November RMPTH Club Meeting we will hold the annual Show & Tell of member finds and collections. This event will be held in round robin fashion where attendees will be free to move about to view displays at their leisure and to socialize. The rules for this event are simple. The displays are only limited as to being relative to the interests of the club. They may be personal finds, such as gold, coins, military relics, bottles, etc. or collections similarly related. We will attempt to confine exhibitors to no more than two per table. Please be forewarned that persons presenting displays will be solely responsible for the protection and security of their displays. The club will not be responsible for your items! With this in mind, it would be prudent for each exhibitor to line up another person to assist. AttendeesThere will be a NO TOUCH rule in effect.

Get your displays ready and show the club what your interests are!

Hopefully, more club oriented stuff than pictured here!

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Silent Auction

he program for November will include a Silent Auction. This will be a fun event which will allow you to sell some of your items, buy some great items yourself and earn the club a little money. Bidding slips will be available at the meeting. Sellers: Fill out copies of the bid form provided at the meeting for each of your auction items as soon as you arrive at the meeting. Rules For Sellers 1. Bring what you like, but lets keep it reasonable, say 25 items per seller. You may bring extras in case we need additional items to fill the tables, but only put them out after everyone else has had a chance to put theirs out. Good items to consider would be anything that pertains to our hobby or members interests. The items can be new, used, or finds. Please dont bring junk, you wont get any bids on it. 2. Fill out the bid slips completely and legibly with the item description, your name if you want to be paid, circle whether you want to donate 20% or 100% to the club and the starting minimum bid (Hint:: High starting bids = few or no bidders. Start at the minimum amount you can Members Take Note live with getting). 3. Sellers will be paid on closing of the Please remember to bring your auction at this meeting! sale items for the auction and 4. Any items that do not sell must be taken please share a donation with the home with you that evening. If you do not, club from your auctioned items. it will be considered a Also, remember to bring some donation for future door prizes or thrown form of payment should you wish out. 5. You may start setto bid on items in the auction as ting out your items at 6:00 pm. payment is due at this meeting. Rules For Buyers 1. Mark your name and bid clearly on the bid slips. You may cancel a bid anytime up to the time the table is closed by completely crossing out your name and bid. Please bring a pen or pencil with you. 2. Tables will close in a random manner every 15 minutes. You will not know which ones are closing in advance, so if you want an item, bid on it early. 3. Minimum bid raise will be $0.25 4. Payment is due TO THE SELLER at the end of the auction by cash or check. Buyers will take your items home with you that evening. Note: The SELLER will be responsible for paying the 20% club share to the TREASURER at this meeting! It will take a while to check everyone out, so let us know if you need to leave early and we will check you out first. HAVE FUN!

Gold Glossary
LODE - Veins that contain valuable minerals (gold) which are chemically locked in with other elements within an ore, requiring more involved methods of processing so that the values can be released and recovered.

Gold Facts
Symbol: AU Atomic Number: 79 Atomic Weight: 196.967 Melting Point: 1063 (1945 F) Specific Gravity: 19.2 MOHs Scale of Hardness: 2.5 - 3 Karat 24K = 100% Pure Gold 18K = 75% Pure Gold 14K = 58% Pure Gold 10K = 42% Pure Gold Troy Weights 1 grain = 0.0648 grams 24 grains = 1 penny weight (DWT) = 1.552 grams 20 DWT = 1 ounce = 480 grains = 31.10 grams

PLEASE NOTE CHANGES TO PROCESS FOR PAYMENT OF AUCTION ITEMS THIS YEAR!

YOUR ADVERTISEMENT COULD BE HERE! Call Rick Mattingly at 970-613-8968 or rickmatt@q.com

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Trading Post
FOR SALE: Tesoro Lobo Detector. Asking $300. And, Garrett GTI 2500 Detector, 2 coils, screen cover, travel bag, less than 5 hours use: $600. Contact Thomas at tmarschall47@gmail.com. FOR SALE: Keene high banker/ 3 in. suction dredge. Near new 10 HP motor [less than 10 hours] with 330 GPM pump. All hoses included with extras. Retails for over $2,000. Sell for $900 firm. Contact Darrell 970 669 2599. FOR SALE: Jewelers propane/oxygen torch, many cabochons, beads and tools. Contact Ann at (970) 6667-3705. FOR SALE: Tekonsha Prodigy Trailer Brake Controller - 1 to 4 Axles - Proportional, Model 90185. High quality, popular brake controller at a great price. Proportional brake controller. Includes digital display, 3 boost levels, battery protection and continuous diagnostics. Easily transfer between different automobiles and using this brake controller it is simple and easy. Comes with mounting bracket, vinyl cover, and instructions. Requires separate purchase of proportional wiring adapter for your make and model tow vehicle that is available off the Internet. $45 includes shipping within the U.S. E-mail Nick Kerpchar at mtview4us@msn.com FOR SALE: A "MUST HAVE" T-Shirt for every Prospector and Treasure Hunter. Quality 100% cotton tees. See and order from: http://BestBlackandGold.com. FOR SALE: Minelab SD2200 Gold Nugget Metal Detector: 10-1/2" Mono Super Coil, 10-1/2" SD Series Super Coil, two batteries w/wall & car charger, headphones, backpack, waist battery pack, signal enhancer, extra lower stem, instruction booklet & video, carry case. Ready to go for the gold: $1900. Contact Paul at (970) 482-7846. FOR SALE: 5HP pump motor, Gold King 3" Hi-banker with dredge attachment w/adjustable stand, Gold Grabber Hibanker, 125 feet hose, Rock net and steel cable, misc. fittings and valves & large metal bucket. Prefer to sell all together for $1,350 but negotiable. Call Eric Stickland at (303) 833-6848 or estick@live.com. WANTED: Used lapidary equipment. Call Kathie 970-2211623 WANTED: Federal or state duck stamps; mint or used. Contact John Hart at (307) 778-3993. YELLOWSTONE FAREWELL Wyoming adventure novel. Diamonds, Gold, Volcanic activity, Prospecting. Factual geology; Fictional story. $18.00 + $4.00 S&H. Spur Ridge Enterprises, POB 1719, Laramie, WY 82073. Internet: http://yellowstonefarewell.com/

About Trading Post The News runs classified ads in Trading Post for three consecutive issues. Trading Post ads for topic related items up to 10 lines (or 70 words) long are free. To place an ad in Trading Post contact Rick Mattingly at (970) 613-8968 evenings or e-mail at: rickmatt@q.com Commercial Advertising Specifications (Monthly Donation Rate) Full Page (8 1/2" X 7") Half Page (3 1/4" X 7") One Third Page (3" X 4") Business Card (2 3/4" X 1 1/2") $30 $20 $15 $ 5

Ads must be received by the 15th of the preceding month. Contact Rick Mattingly for information on this service at (970) 613-6968 evenings or e-mail at: rickmatt@q.com.

All mistakes and misspellings were intentionally made so that you could have the pleasure of finding them.

NOTE: Purchase arrangements are between the buyer and seller only and involves no financial benefit to RMPTH.

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WEEKEND & SMALL-SCALE MINERS CODE OF ETHICS

I WILL respect other prospectors claims and not work those claims without the owners permission I WILL have on-site all necessary permits and licenses I WILL build fires in designated or safe places only, and in accordance with current State and Federal guidelines I WILL be careful with fuels and motor oils and be cognizant of their potential destructive effect on the environment I WILL remove and properly dispose of all trash and debris that I find - I will not litter I WILL be thoughtful, considerate and courteous to those around me at all time I WILL appreciate and protect our heritage of natural resources, wildlife, fisheries and private property, and respect all laws or ordinances governing prospecting and mining I WILL NOT remove stream bank material, destroy natural vegetation or woody debris dams, nor discharge excess silt into the waterways I WILL NOT refuel motorized equipment in the stream I WILL NOT allow oil from motorized equipment to drip onto the ground or into the water I WILL NOT prospect in areas closed to prospecting and mining

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that $1 and $2 notes cost 5.5 cents each, $5, $10 and $100 notes cost 9.9 cents, and $20 and $50 notes cost 10.9 cents. It's all about the Woodrows The Federal Reserve Board currently issues $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes. The largest denomination Federal Reserve note ever issued for public circulation was the $10,000 note. On July 14, 1969, the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury announced that banknotes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945. The largest bill ever printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was the $100,000 gold certificate. However, they were never put into circulation and were used for transactions only between Reserve banks. Woodrow Wilson is the president featured on the bill. Show us the money ... seriously, we need to check it out The Secret Service was created in 1865 to fight rampant counterfeiting in the wake of the Civil War, when, according the Secret Service website, it was estimated that a full one-third to one-half of the currency in circulation was counterfeit. The agency didn't take on the additional, and more well-known, duty of protecting the president until after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. MSN Money

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Rocky Mountain Prospectors and Treasure Hunters Club 2013 Schedule of Events
Month
January

Meeting Program
Bottle Hunting By Rick Mattingly
Relic Hunting By Tom Warne

Trip/Activity
No Trip/Activity Scheduled

February

No Trip/Activity Scheduled

March

South Pass, Wyoming History By Rick Mattingly

Colorado School of Mines Museum Tour Detecting Clinic at Lions Park Advertised and Open to the Public Wyoming Geologic Survey Tour & Diamond Prospecting Clinic Phoenix Mine & Argo Mill Tours Lets Go Gold Panning On The Arkansas Event Prospecting Clinic at Lions Park Advertised and Open to the Public Clear Creek Gold Outing GPS, Compass & Map Clinic Clear Creek Gold Outing Diamond Hunt Outing State Annual Gold Panning Championships

April

RMPTH Prospecting DVD Overview & Patent Searching By Rick Mattingly

May

Ghost Towns of the Rockies By Preethie Burkholder

June

Detecting England By Ed & Mia Edwards Burrows Cave By Russell Burrows GPAA Presentation By Rick Messina - President Casper Chapter GPAA and State Director

July

Butcher Knife Draw WY Gem Outing South Pass, Wyoming Gold & Detector Outing Eldora Ski Resort Detector Outing

August

Meteorite Hunting

Ames Monument Tour and Vedauwoo Detector Outing Vics Gold Panning Outing Annual Coin & Prize Hunt Denver Colorado Gem & Mineral Show Fort Laramie Wyoming Tour

September

Battery Facts By Batteries Plus

October

Gold & Silver Refining Presentation By David Emslie Annual Show & Tell & Silent Auction Annual Find of the Year Awards & Christmas Party

Off-Road Detector Outing

November

Local Detector Outing

December

Flatirons Mineral Club & Model Train Show

Good Hunting in 2013!

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Rocky Mountain Prospectors & Treasure Hunters Contact List

RMPTH Coordinators President Interim Vice President Treasurer Secretary Bud Yoder Shane Menenti Dick & Sharon French Heidi Short Home 1-970-590-9183 1-970-482-2110 1-970-532-1167 E-Mail bydu812@yahoo.com menentiwe2@msn.com dickyf99@centurylink.net heishort@gmail.com

The News Staff Editor-in-Chief Rick Mattingly 1-970-613-8968

rickmatt@q.com

Internet Web Site Web Master Volunteers/Coordinators Find of the Year Joe Johnston Betsy Emond Paul Mayhak Rick Mattingly Barbara Schuldt Barbara Schuldt Joe Johnston Bryan Morgan Darrell Koleber Bob Smith Shane Menenti Paul Mayhak Johnny Berndsen 1-303-696-6950 1-970-218-0290 1-970-482-7846 1-970-613-8968 1-970-407-1336 1-970-407-1336 1-303-696-6950 1-970-416-0608 1-970-669-2599 1-303-530-4375 1-970-590-9183 1-970-482-7846 1-970-667-1006 cjoej1@peoplepc.com pjmcolo@q.com Rick Mattingly 1-970-613-8968

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Presentations Club Historian Club Meeting Greeter Club Librarian Panning Demos

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cjoej1@peoplepc.com brymorg@frii.com gutshot1016@yahoo.com bob15smith@hotmail.com menentiwe2@msn.com pjmcolo@q.com

Meeting Setup

Door Prize

General Information Contact: Rick Mattingly at 1-970-613-8968

Visit RMPTH on the Internet at: http://rmpth.com

Lets Go For The Gold !

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