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official publication of The Gold Prospectors of Colorado vol. 37 no. 6

Letter From Your President


inside
Fellow Prospectors:
 “Letʼs Go Gold Panning” on Woody's President’s Letter 2
claims and Point Bar on the Arkansas New Members 2
So much happened this month that I River was a huge success. On
don't even know where to start! This Saturday we had over 50 people show Contacts 2
year, the volunteers have been a up and another 30 on Sunday. A Modern Day Pans 3
wonderful asset to the educational and sizable amount of gold was found.
June Calendar 4
informative aspects of the club and are There were many different pieces of
greatly appreciated. We did equipment being used including a G-1 Coyote Holes 5
demonstrations for the 4th grade class and even an electric, homemade, A Bad Day 6
at  Patrick Henry Elementary elevated sluice box in which you could
School on May 4th. The kids were like watch the gold accumulate on the Yearly Calendar 7
sponges and seemed to thrive on the deep v-matting.
input of information.
continued on next page

june
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President Treasurer Contact Info Trustees
Ben Higley Helen Bennett Bob Hale (719)
GPOC president@gpoc.com treasure@gpoc.com 213-3383 One Year
Patrick Hill
contacts Vice President Webmaster Special Events
Wayne Wittkopp Stacey Smith Phil Vigil (719)
Two Year
vicepresident@gpoc.com
webmaster@gpoc.com 391-9975
Gary Beaderstadt
Secretary Membership
Elise Pearce Editor membership@gpoc.com Three Year
secretary@gpoc.com Lin Smith Bob Bennett
quileditor@gpoc

President’s letter, continued      Last but not least everyone needs
to review our Code of Ethics on the Welcome To New Members
I would like to make special mention GPOC website listing our rules for
of Mr. Woody Regal for all of his prospecting. These are the guidelines Armond Pietrosanti CO
shared experiences with the new and we abide by for safe and responsible Dan & Leslie Stefanski MI
prospective members who prospecting. We recently had to
Mike & Lori Barker CO
participated in this event We had a sanction an individual and ban their
large panning trough setup at the top membership due to the bad image George & Linda Causer CO
of the hill where the ancient river bed they were portraying. Their Arlo Crumble CO
ran and Woody did a demonstration undesirable behavior, failure to follow Bill Crumble CO
using a scoop right off of the ground the governing laws of the land and Sandra Malone
which produced 10-12 flakes of gold their poor choices outside of our rules Daniel KS
& Ken
each time he did it.      The inspiration resulted in these actions. Phillip & Jennifer Eden CO
and education that the old time      For the rest of you, I am proud to
members of the club have shared William Farmer KS
serve you in the days past and to
with us is invaluable. Now, that is come. You ʻre all so helpful and Richard & Susa Horn CO
what this organization is all about! wonderful to work with and make this Benjamin Johnson CO
club what it has become today. Good Keith & Shelley Johnson MN
 TERRITORY DAYS in Old Colorado prospecting to you all and may your
City on the 29th-31st of May is an John & Mary Kyler CO
paths be blessed with yellow stones.
awesome opportunity to share Mark Lindenmeyer CO
knowledge and to educate the public      Sincerely,    Big Ben Billy Long CO
on the way gold panning was 100
John Lynch CO
years ago. It is what started this era The Prospector’s Quill is the official
of the new frontier in the Colorado Cliff McKinney CO
newsletter of the Gold Prospectors of
Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1859. Gold Colorado. The opinions are those of the Chuck Miller CO
panning dates back to 5000 years authors and do not necessarily reflect Freddy & Diane Mock CO
ago with the Egyptians. those of the club or its members. The
Ray Moretz CO
     Starting June 1st in Victor, editor, club, officers, and contributors do
Colorado, gold mine tours will feature not assume any liability for damages Christopher Reece CO
the modern mining operations of resulting from use of information in The Robert & Susan Scott CO
Cripple Creek and the Victor Gold Prospector’s Quill. Articles of interest are
Lawrence & Pauline  Smith CO
welcomed. All articles submitted for
Mining Company. The cost is $5.00
publication are subject to editing. Steve & Janet Swearingen CO
per person. Tour proceeds go to the Submission of articles must be received Sharon Wasinger CO
Victor Lowell Thomas Museum in before the 20th of the month. Unless
downtown Victor, where the tour noted, non-profits may reprint or quote Robert Whirl CO
begins. Reservations may be made from articles, provided credit is given to Roxanne Witmer CO
online at www.VictorColorado.com or the author’s and publication and a copy of Michael & Wendi Zalaker IL
by calling 719-689-4211 with tours the newsletter the article appears in is
ending in September. sent to the editor. If you wish to contact
     June 12th-13th is our next new the editor of the Quill please be aware Welcome Back
member outing on our Beaver Creek that in the web address Glenn & Connie Beattie CO
claims and hopefully I'll have our plan there is only one L
Ray & Diane Briseno CO
of operation approved by the U.S.F.S. quileditor@gpoc.com Donald Eich CO
allowing us to proceed with dredging.
ROCK FAIR June 26th and 27th
Western Museum of Mining & Industry

The Western Museum of Mining & Industry partners with the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society to
present the second annual "Rock Fair at WMMI". A family event to include children's activities, food vendors,
rock & mineral identification, seminars on rockhounding and more. The museum will run the outdoor
equipment on the 26th and as an added bonus they will run the Yellow-Jacket Stamp Mill at 10:00 a.m. and
1:00 p.m.! This Mill is only run one time per year - a special event in itself!

Modern Day Gold Pans


“Ninja Miner”
Lotok - Russia

A pan that is used in Russia is called the


lotok. The term “lotok” means tray. In
researching lotok you may come across The “Ninja Miner” is a name
food trays as well as kitty litter boxes! given to miners in Mongolia
The lotok is not round but instead who use green plastic
consists of two rectangular trays that bowls to mine gold. When
are joined on one short end by gluing they carry the large green
etc. or as a single unit, in a gentle v. Le Trap Gold Pan Abstract bowls on their backs they
over which the water and sediments are resemble the shells of the
passed. The outside ends are a straight Patent 4,289,241 Te e n a g e M u t a n t N i n j a
horizontal line. In The World Placer Turtles. The green bowl is
Journal the author describes the lotok circular with a flat bottom
as “being the favorite device for heavy that merges into a steep
mineral prospecting along streams, wall. The bottom may be
recovering placer gold from chum drills reinforced with struts and
and bucket drills, and as a step in the rim turns outward for
cleaning gold concentrate from bucket added strength. With the
line dredges.” The lotok is generally green bowl more water and
made of wood, often as a single piece material can be held.
and as a result it will float. Calm,
consistent water aids in its operation. “A gold panning and classifying When communism fell in
The Le Trap gold pan patented in 1981 method and system includes a Mongolia and after a
is similar to the lotok, employing the generally rectangularly shaped gold series of severe draughts
same techniques to classify. It is a pan having diverging side panels which devastated their
square gold pan, which claims to “pan livelyhood of nomadic
and a plurality of valleys and ridges herding, thousands turned
large quantities of material quickly right
down to the pure gold.” The Le Trap in the front panel. A plurality of to mining the gold placers
pan contains more riffles than the nesting classifying screens are left behind by mining
traditional pan offering more surfaces to included to effect a first separation companies and the virgin
trap the gold. The Grizzly gold pan was of material into portions composed gold placers that are not
patented in 2004 having a similar v- located in the reserves of
of equivalent size particles. The the mining companies.
shape but operating in a different
manner. The lotok is operated by unique shape of the pan greatly
moving side-to-side and to-and-fro enhances the gravity separation
unlike the North American gold pan, techniques for separating fine sands
which is swirled. from gold and gold dust.”
meetings events events
June
calendar 3rd 12th-13th 19th-20th
Board Meeting New Member Outing Kingdom Days
7:00 PM GPOC Beaver Creek Breckenridge, CO
For further information 4125 Center Park Drive, Claims Volunteers needed for
contact: Outfitters & Gold Demo.
CS,CO Panning, Sluicing, Work
president@gpoc.com Party, Reclamation,
Bob Hale at (719) Bob Hale
Claim-Marking
213-3383 (719) 213-3383
Bob Hale
(719) 213-3383
www.gpoc.com

9th 24th 26th-27th


General Membership On the Cripple Creek WMMI Rock Fair
Meeting Mineral Trail 225 N. Gate Road
7:00 PM Cripple Creek CS,CO
3400 N. Nevada, Steven Veatch (719)488-0880
CS,CO (719)748-3253 RSVP
Panning, Sluicing &
Concentrate Cleanup

Volunteers Cache Creek Calling all 


GPOC Women ProspectorETTE’s
When volunteering for club activities We are still looking for volunteers to
help host Cache Creek. Please  
you must contribute a minimum of 4
contact Ben at president@gpoc.com You are invited to enjoy a fun filled
hours to receive credit for a
if you are interested. “Women’s Only Day”
volunteer day.
July 10, 2010, at Woody’s Claim, 9am until????
Come meet other GPOC women and learn how to
pan, sluice, high bank, how to use a gold wheel,
Gold Prospector Off-Road Vehicle cleanup tubes, etc.
from other GPOC women, some are
State Panning Championship participants.
 No men are allowed to observe or
instruct prospecting techniques.
Don’t fret! The GPOC President, Vice President, a
ECO-FRIENDLY
CLEAN AIR SYSTEM Trustee and other male members have volunteered
to dig our dirt!! 
 You keep the gold you find!
After enjoying the day prospecting, enjoy a BBQ
prepared by GPOC males volunteering for grill
duties!
So come one, come all…and bring any equipment
you have available.
Oh, and bring a guest that may want to experience
a day of fun!

Questions?? E-mail:
Helen-membership@gpoc.com,
Elise-secretary@gpoc.com,
or Stacey-webmaster@gpoc.com
properties in the early 1860s, testifies to the
COYOTE HOLE OR RATHOLE MINING
effectiveness of its coyote mining.
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Ferhoncus de plub
A coyote hole is also known as a rathole (rat-hole,
Aliquam deratMantis Chauncey de Billuptus Curabitur Leo
An exception to the usual poor production of small-scale
hole). They are inexpensive,
Leoshafts.
Praesen rathole mines
Orci was the 1866 development
Aliquam Tortor Rasellusof the Kentuck
simple, man-sized
Mauris Vitaequam Mine in GoldNunc
Vivamus Hill, Nevada. John Mackay
Quisque Porta and J.M.
Coyoting is the practice of
Walker excavated this property with rathole modesty.
digging shallowDiam
coyote
Nobis NobisaEget Urna Sodales
They used hand wench to descend the shaft and to
holes in search Senmaris
of gold.Calla Ipsum Sed accumsan Libero Aliquam Mattis Felis
haul up ore and debris. In this way, they avoided the
They were mined by
cost ofFermen
a steam-driven hoist room
Veliwith all its employees.
individuals whoEget
did Toque
not Pede Ligula
Aliquam de Manti In three years, Bibendum
Vestibulum their operation produced
Morbi congue over three
Magna
work in conjunction with a
million dollars in gold and silver.
company. The miners would
Fringilla Viverr Uam Scelerisque Odio Pede
often work in teams with
Seargente de Fermentum Maecenas Interdum Eget Purus
When coyote holes were too deep for the miner to
one in the hole digging and
throw out the dirt with his shovel, a windlass with a
gathering dirt. The other
bucket was used; but where the depth was not too great
miner would hoist the dirt
each miner had his separate hole, in which he delved,
out at the top of the hole.
collecting the pay dirt from the bottom of his pit and as
The dirt would then be
far on either side on the bed rock as he dared to
panned in water to obtain the gold concentrates.
excavate. Sometimes the excavations, instead of being
vertical shafts, were sloping or horizontal tunnels into
The term “rathole” is an apparent corruption of the
the side of a hill or bank and in some instances ran in
sixteenth-century Spanish science of mining known as el
hundreds of feet. In all these cases the men, while at
sistema del rato literally “the system of the moment,”
work, were entirely out of sight of a person looking over
but actually meaning a pragmatic or empirical system.
the bar, flat or slope in which there were operations; the
Because much of the West had been part of Mexico
approach of night or any alarm or unusual noise would
and Spanish prospectors remained, their traditional
cause them to pop out of their holes; and their
mining technology persisted. Many smalltime operators,
supposed resemblance under such circumstances to the
regardless of ethnicity, wished to avoid the expense of
Californian animal corresponding with the prairie wolf
an engineer. Those who sought to prospect
of the Mississippi states caused these pits, shafts or
underground in a limited, efficient way typically used
tunnels to be called coyote holes and the character of
the same techniques of coyote holes used by early
mining done in them coyote-mining. In subsequent
Mexican miners.
years when hydraulic mining superseded other kinds of
placer work, coyote mining, like the old operations of
The rathole mines wandered and followed the veins of
the pan, rocker and long-tom became antiquated; but
ore disregarding classical mining engineering
while it was in vogue many places were completely
techniques. Coyote hole mines were a quick way to
honeycombed by so-called coyote holes. One place
explore a prospective site. The Nevada landscapes are
near Nevada City, consisting of a rich hill of gravel, was
peppered with tens of thousands of these small-scale
so pierced with holes that it was named Coyoteville.
endeavors, most of which yielded little profits. Miners
were usually only able to make a profit by selling their
(History of California, Volume 3. Hittell, Theodore Henry. San
excavations or investment stock. Francisco, N.J. Stone & Company. 1898.)

In Virginia City, the Maldonado brothers employed the In one description of a coyote miner by Wood, a miner
sixteenth-century method for their Mexican Mine, spent several days digging his hole when he fell through
making it a curiosity to its technological neighbors. the bottom into a drift occupied by a Mexican busily
Contemporaries described Spanish-speaking miners engaged in taking out rich pay dirt. The air was blue
climbing notched logs (boca-mina tree trunks) called with curses for awhile, but as the best of his claim was
chicken ladders often ascending hundreds of feet. worked out by the Mexican before the American struck
Workers hauled ore in rawhide buckets on their backs bedrock, he had to make the best of it.”
suspended by straps across their foreheads. Shunning
the expense of square-set timbering, the Maldonados Coyote holes are dangerous to dig and dangerous to
used line supports consisting of columns of native rock enter. The only support for these holes is the
left untouched in strategic places. The profitability of surrounding bedrock. Unexpected cave-ins can occur in
the Mexican Mine, one of the richest Comstock which you may be buried alive.
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