Grubstake Jan 2013 - West Coast Prospectors And Treasure

The Grubstake
www.westcoasters.org
January 2013
Volume 28 Number 7
Reminder
Dues are due on January 1st.
($40 individual; $50 family)
January Program
Some of you may not know Robert Rieck,
our guest speaker for January, but most
have seen his work. Robert owns and
operates a commercial metal works shop
in Santa Ana, Royal Manufacturing.
When not working commercial jobs,
Robert likes to invent better equipment for
metal detecting and prospecting. His
folding backpack sluice boxes, sand scoop,
diggers and other equipment are well
received. You can find him selling his
product at the gold shows across the
western states. And Robert searches for
gold himself both with high end detectors
and dry washers.
You won’t want to miss this program!
Copper's element symbol, Cu,
is from the Latin word cuprum:
from the isle of Cyprus, which
is famed for its copper mines.
President’s Report
Happy New Year’s Westcoasters!
What a great Christmas party we
had! Thank you Lora and Squeek!
For everyone that could not make
it, we had Turkey dinner with tons
of sides. Santa came by and
dropped off tons of gifts. Thank
you Santa!
I am so excited about the new year,
we have Rendezvous coming up.
We have a lot of new things
happening. Jose is going to do all
the cooking. I have had Jose’s
food, and he is a great cook! If you
would like to help out with the
cooking please give Jose a call.
Lora is doing all the fundraising. If
you have anything you want to
donate or just want to help with the
fundraising, please call Lora.
Ralph and Jan are doing
registration. Flyers are on the
Website, so if you want to sign up,
the sooner the better! We already
have a few people signed up. I am
running the hunts so if you would
like to put on a hunt let me know.
I will also have sign up sheets for
planters. A planter gets a bag of
money and puts it on the hunt
field. It is easy and fun. If you have
never helped before give me a call.
We could use your help. We are
also doing something new this
year. We are going to have an after
party on Sunday. It is going to be
a potluck party and everyone is
welcome. So when you make your
reservation, make sure you stay on
Sunday for the party.
Now, I have a funny story to tell. I
have a friend named Leo Aranza,
who loves to metal detect. He told
me that the other day he sold one
of his older machines to a friend
who had never metal detected
before. His friend asked him to
show him how it worked. So they
went down to a park a couple of
blocks from Leo’s house and
started detecting. Leo showed him
how to use the detector. They
found about $5 each. At the end of
the day, Leo’s friend asked if he
wanted to detect the following
weekend.
(Continued on club business page)
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Garden Grove Women’s Club
9501 Chapman Ave.
Garden Grove, CA
Corner of Chapman and Gilbert
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Officers, Board Members and Committees
Officers
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Ray Carrasco
Neil Preston
Dan Persgard
Jose Marquez
Board Members
909-518-1900
206-354-1896
714-875-3431
951-371-0067
Member at Large
Member at Large
Member at Large
Ways & Means
Public Relations Director
Ralph Kolbush
Dan Hoevel
Vickie Hays
Joe Calafato
Ralph Crowther
Committees/Appointees
714-892-4075
949-554-3040
714-906-2970
714-897-1631
949-588-2922
Challenge 2012
Crime Scene
Diamond Testing
Editor
Fifty-Fifty Drawing
Field Trip Coordinator
Find of the Month
Gold Testing
Historian
Hospitality
Membership
Mail Man
Parliamentarian
Photography
Programs
Recycling
Refreshments
Rendezvous 2013
Ring Return
Sergeant at Arms
Sound System
Special Promotions
Video Photography
Webmaster
Quartermaster
Rick & Leslie Rolsheim
949-642-0454
Larry Priebe
949-951-6779
Squeek Gentner
562-693-8064
Marge Gabel
714-812-0316
Paul Robles
951-737-3262
Bruce Gentner
562-693-8064
George Allison
714-772-1564
Kevin Carr
714-995-2004
Mary Lois VanSooy
562-430-6236
Pauline Maxwell
562-431-6165
Open
Tom Coke
714-669-1221
Open
Open
There are many open positions - why not volunteer!
Open
Open
Rose Robles
951-737-3262
Open
Joe Calafato
714-897-1631
Charlie Norton
562-427-8717
Open
Donna Fenner
714-963-4115
Open
Dan Perrone
626-260-8476
Open
Upcoming Events
January Field Trip
The monthly field trip will be at Bolsa Chica beach on January 19th at 10:00 am.
Same place (last lot near Jack-in-the-Box). We will serve a hot breakfast and
lunch will be hot soup and hot dogs! The fire pit will be going, so come down and
start the new year with great friends! Bring your chairs, jackets and mittens and
oh, your detectors! Family members are always welcome.
Leslie and Rick Rolsheim
February Field Trip
Plan ahead for February’s field trip to Butterfield Park in Corona. It will be at
10:30 on February 23rd. Hosted by Jose and Ali Marquez.
Minelab - National Metal Detecting Day
Minelab will again host a series of events worldwide on May 18th, 2013. The
closest event to us will be at a Santa Barbara beach. Details are not yet available
but you can find out more on their website: www.gominelabbing.com
Rendezvous 2013
We have secured our date for Rendezvous 2013. Save the weekend of April 19 to
21, 2013 and come and join us for our 26th annual hunt. The flyer is available on
the website. We already have 5 people signed up.
Found!
The club’s website receives various emails including requests to locate lost items. Right now we don’t have a formal
means to deal with these and they get forwarded to a few board members. I think this is a great opportunity for the club
to help out. I suggest that a few members who are willing to search for lost items, let me know (you must be a regular
email user) and our webmaster, Dan, will forward the requests to the group. If it’s something you are interested in then
you would make contact and work out any arrangements with the owner (time, place, finder’s fee).
I had the opportunity to help a retired gentleman near where I live who wanted to find a possible survey’s marker on the
hillside behind his house. The developer had installed a boundary fence that significantly stepped down the hillside
from his neighbor on one side across his back yard. He had looked at the property maps and believed that the fence
should be another 20 feet up the slope from where it was. The slope was fairly steep and covered in honeysuckle plants.
I put the little 5 inch coil on my Fisher Goldbug Pro, ran the discrimination to zero and started up the slope. I
immediately started digging signals (a beer can, broken sprinkler head, piece of iron chain, a fence rail, twisted metal
and a ketchup pack). Finally right at the intersection of the top of his neighbors fence and his side yard fence, I got a
good iron signal. I had to use a hatchet to cut through the roots and dig down about 6 inches where I found a rod driven
into the ground with a yellow cap with marking identification. This clearly showed that the gentleman’s property
extended another 20 feet up the hill. He was very happy and I got an unsolicited $20 to cover expenses.
Ralph Crowther
Annual Christmas Party
Plenty of food, desserts and gifts!
Annual Christmas Party
Members & guests enjoying the party!
The Berry’s celebrate their
50th wedding anniversary!
Annual Christmas Party
More pics!
Gordon Sanden receives a
recognition plaque and silver coin
from the West Coaster’s board of
directors. Gordon, a friend of
Marge Gabel, generously allows
the board to meet at his place in
Huntington Beach.
Santa was there!
Christmas Gift Drawing Winners!
Club Business
No minutes for the December Christmas party. We came, we ate,
we had fun, we ate, we saw Santa, we ate, we opened gift prizes and
we ate some more. A good time was had by all.
Club Secretary,
Dan Persgard
The board has decided not to publish the
treasurer’s report in the online version of the
Grubstake. Jose Marquez will review the
treasury status at the general meeting and
have copies available. We will have copies
available online as soon as we establish the
secure members only section of the website.
(Continued from President’s message)
Leo said he already had plans to go detecting in the desert. The following weekend, when Leo arrived home his friend
was waiting for him. Leo said, what’s going on? His friend said, I went back to that same park and look what I found!
A U.S. 1900 $20 gold coin in a 14k bezel! Wow! A find of a lifetime! Second time metal detecting and you find a $20
gold coin! Wow! The best thing about metal detecting is that you never know what you are going to find! I have to
say it one more time, a U.S. $20 gold coin! Wow!
So get out there and go metal detecting
Your President
Ray
Fifteen Fun Facts about Copper
It's not every day that people consider all the neat facts about copper, but there are rather interesting things to learn
about this renewable metal.
1. The Statue of Liberty is made from 179,000 pounds of copper.
2. The average home contains 400 pounds of copper that is used for electrical wiring, pipes and appliances.
The average car has 50 pounds of copper.
3. All gold contains some level of copper, even 24 karat gold. This is because gold is so soft, it can be
molded with the hands and calls for a bit of copper to be added.
4. Professional chefs prefer to cook with copper pots and pans, as it delivers uniform cooking and has no heat
spots.
5. Copper is naturally antibacterial. Brass doorknobs, handrails and finger plates are excellent choices for
public buildings and will prevent the spread of bacteria.
6. Copper tools will not cause sparks, making them the tools of choice when working around explosives.
7. Copper is 100% recyclable and nearly 80% of the copper that has been produced is still in use today.
Copper can continue to be recycled without any changes to its properties. In fact, it retains 95% of its
original value.
8. Copper is often referred to as "man's eternal metal". It's highly durable, long lasting and can be used in all
applications of life.
9. The average person will use 1500 pounds of copper just to enjoy today's standard of living. (Think
computers, telephones, automobiles, etc.)
10. U.S. coins today consist of a solid copper core and layer of copper-nickel alloy.
11. A copper earth system could save the lives of people who are struck by lightning, as well as save the
homes and structures that are damaged from lightning strikes.
12. Copper has been used for as long as we can remember. The Egyptians had the ankh symbol to represent
copper, and pyramids in Egypt used copper for water plumbing.
13. Copper can be alloyed with tin to make bronze and alloyed with zinc to make brass.
14. Although the Dead Sea Scrolls have been known to be made with rare animal skins, one that was
recovered contains copper.
15. Copper is everywhere: TVs, radios, electrical wiring, plumbing, washers and dryers. It is often alloyed
with zinc or tin to make brass or bronze, giving it a golden-like color.
Scientists Strike ‘Scientific Gold’ in California
From Science World
Researchers
have struck scientific gold at Sutter’s Mill, site of the
famed California Gold Rush where the precious metal was first
discovered in 1848.
In April of this year, the scientists recovered a rare meteorite which
contains clues to the early history of the solar system. Using Doppler
radar, the same technology used by weather forecasters, the scientists
detected a shower of meteors raining down over the communities of
Coloma and Lotus, just after the asteroid broke up in the atmosphere.
That allowed scientists to, for the first time, quickly find, recover and
study a primitive meteorite that had little exposure to the elements.
It’s the most pristine look at the surface of ancient asteroids scientists
have been able to study so far. Because of the rapid recovery of materials, scientists were able to detect compounds
that quickly disappear once a meteorite hits Earth. Reporting in Science, the researchers say their rare find was
classified as a Carbonaceous-Mighei or CM-type carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, which is known to contain water
and complex organic compounds, such as amino acids, molecules that help form life. But, according to NASA’s
Danny Glavin, he and the other scientists weren’t able to detect many of the amino acids in their find because it
appeared the samples had been heated in space before arriving on Earth.
“The small three meter-sized asteroid that impacted over California’s Sierra Nevada came in at twice the speed of
typical meteorite falls,” said lead author Peter Jenniskens, of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center,
both located in California. “Clocked at 64,000 miles per hour, it was the biggest impact over land since the impact of
the four meter-sized asteroid 2008 TC3, four years ago over Sudan.”
The scientists also say that, for the first time, they were able to identify the region of space where these types of
meteorites come from. After studying photographs and video of the asteroid, Jenniskens figured that it came in on an
unusually low-angled orbit, more like a comet‘s orbit, passing closer to the sun than what has been learned from past
recorded meteorite falls. Scientists found the asteroid, as it was in orbit, was influenced by the gravity of both the Sun
and Jupiter at times.
“It circled the sun three times during a single orbit of Jupiter, in resonance with that planet,” Jenniskens said. A
meteor flashes across the sky during the peak of the November 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower. (Photo: Ed Sweeney via
Wikimedia Commons). The asteroid that spawned the meteorite was estimated to be around 45359 kg. Of that, less
than 1kg was actually recovered on the ground in the form of 77 tiny meteorites. The biggest of those meteorites was
205 grams.
While the scientists didn’t find much actual gold in the Sutter’s Mill meteorite, about 150 parts per billion, it was still
“scientific gold,” according to co-author and cosmochemist Qing-zhu Yin of the University of California at Davis.
“With 78 other elements measured, Sutter’s Mill provides one of the most complete records of elemental compositions
documented for such primitive meteorites,” he said.
Winner’s Circle
Treasure Chest Drawings
20 Years Ago this
month January 1993
10 Years Ago this
month January 2003
The price of silver sure was a lot less 20 years ago as
We all had the opportunity to cast our vote for 1 of the 20
the Find of the Month prizes were handed out as 1st
semifinalist designs for the California state quarter. Many
(silver half and quarter), 2nd (2 silver quarters) and 3rd
(silver quarter and dime) for each category! Non
winners received a silver quarter and the drawing for
voting was awarded a silver round. Current member Pat
Sherrick took home prizes for three 1st place wins (best
silver, best US coin and best foreign coin)
The January field trip was run by Don Mollet (Don
passed away this past year - editor) and featured a mini
hunt and a game of bingo. A large turnout showed up at
Huntington State Beach. The bingo game was based on
the numbers members found during the hunt.
The club purchased a digital scale with the proceeds
from the aluminum can drive.
Plans were underway for Rendezvous as members were
asked to sell tickets for the California Gold drawing,
sell Ike dollars back to the club for the dollar hunt.
Glen Ison even sold 17 silver rounds to members who
turned around and donated them back to the club to use
in the daily drawing.
There was an interesting article about a Canadian club
where members found two rare 1921 silver 5 cent
pieces (10 years apart). There were only 200 - 400 of
this coin minted and the value was at $6,000 each. The
article was submitted by an associate member in
Ottawa, Canada (don’t recall having associate members
- do you? - Editor)
were pushing for the prospector design.
The January field trip was hosted by Dan and Lora
Persgard. Pennies were planted with pieces of playing
cards attached. As each hunter found good poker
combinations they redeemed them for silver coins and
returned to the hunt field to find more. We had a record
55 members show up for the hunt.
There was a great ring return story told by Lora as she,
along with Bruce and Squeek, searched for a lost wedding
ring valued at $3,800 and lost in the water at Dog Beach.
The ring’s owner had the ring for only a week when she
was hit in the hand by a thrown ball. Lora came through
by finding the ring (in the same hole as a large dog choker
chain).
Members Mary Urieta and Pauline Maxwell gave the
program about the Ronald McDonald House in Orange its history and purpose. Since 1966 pull tabs have raised
over $25,000 for the Ronald McDonald house (the club is
still collecting and donating pull tabs to this cause.
Ann McFarland won $65 in the 50/50 drawing.
Reported by:
Ralph Crowther
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January Birthdays
Chuck Brand
Tex Broughton Chris Carfrae
Noel Clinton
Donna Fenner
Bill Huff
Charlie Lusch
Charlie Norton Neil Preston
Dick Waters
Daniel Hoevel
Blaine
Greenman
Steve Molstad
Timothy
Thompson