More Information on Cache Creek

I have a short post for you today concerning Cache Creek regulations.  I am in the process of helping my Mother with some major medical problems that have kept me hopping since we returned from Arizona, and, also, from blogging.  Soon, that will be over and I will be able to share with you more often.

According to the BLM office in Canyon City, in addition to the ban on motorized equipment, no mechanized equipment of any kind will be allowed.  This will include anything with wheels, such as hand trucks, wagons, wheel barrows, zip lines, or anything that is not brought in or out by hand, nor can you use anything mechanized to assist you with extraction or processing of placer gravels. This may include anything battery operated, but I have not asked that question, specifically.  If you wish to use battery operated equipment, you will need to make sure you will be allowed to do that by contacting the BLM Canyon City office.

A call to the Salida Arkansas Headwaters office produced a different response, but that office is not authorized to do anything for the BLM but issue Arkansas River bonds for pumping water.  For any information on the Cache Creek area, you will need to contact the BLM Canyon City office directly, as the Salida office does not, and will not, have current information on the area.

We are enjoying a beautiful, warm Spring here in Colorado.  I hope you are finding gold where you are looking and we are looking forward to finding gold and prospecting for gold in Colorado.  Our time in Arizona was special and lots of fun.  I am considering starting a facebook page for Hooked on Gold to share more pictures and make commenting easier for those of  you who visit here.  I am thinking it might be a better way to restart the forum.  Let me know what you think, and as always,

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau

Gold Prospectors: Casting call for Major Cable Network

Calling all prospectors!  I have information about a casting call from Metal Flowers Media out of California, looking for men and women between the ages of 28 – 52 “with legitimate experience in trucking, logging, construction, mining and shipping.”  Below you can see the email sent to me from Alisa.  Get in touch with her if you think you qualify for this new major network project called “Boomtown Greenland”  We can’t…we’re ‘too old’. But, if you do, tell her you saw it here.

 My name is Alisa, and I'm casting a major cable network that is seeking the most experienced miners, loggers, truckers, contractors, and shippers from across the country to star in “Boomtown Greenland”, a new major network project. The series will follow these hard-nosed, brash team members as they risk it all in some of the most harrowing weather and topographical conditions known to man at an attempt for fortune in precious metals and jewels. Both individuals and teams are being considered.

Men and women between the ages of 28 – 52 with legitimate experience in trucking, logging, construction, mining, and shipping are encouraged to apply. Looking for both existing teams and individuals. This is the chance of a lifetime for the right individual.

If you are interested or know anyone good for this and can help spread the word, I would really appreciate it. Looking forward to speaking with you further. Thanks for your time. 

All the best, 

Alisa Walters

Casting Assistant

Metal Flowers Media

Boomtown Greenland

267-334-1042

No Motorized Equipment at Cache Creek in 2012

Shooting out a fast, short post on important information to those of you who look for gold at Cache Creek in Colorado.

BLM posted this page today concerning requirements for prospecting for gold in Colorado at Cache Creek:  http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/rgfo/minerals/locatable_minerals/placer_mining/Arkansas_River_Dredge_Permit.html

Looks like they have had enough with the problems, fighting, and general complaints about highbanking at Cache Creek, and have decided not to allow highbanking there beginning this year (2012). 

While motorized equipment will not be allowed in the area, casual use/hand equipment will still be allowed.  What the requirements for that will be is not yet known, so watch the BLM site for updates.  I will post what I know when I know it.

Good Prospecting to You,

Shirley

www.hookedongold.com

hookedongold@gmail.com

Escaping the Cold of the Colorado Winter to Arizona Gold

The stock market is making a move into positive territory again, so that probably means it will take a dive as profits get taken out of it.  Gold is not following it, however, but is still at a healthy $1755.00 this morning    .

                                                                                                     

We have escaped the Colorado winter for a few weeks by traveling to Arizona where temperatures are warmer, however, this year is quite a bit cooler than last year.  It is very dry here, and they did not get the rain they need in January, so the plants are suffering.

Even so, we are traveling around to a few old haunts and some new ones, as well.  Of interest to many of you will be the Tucson Show, Rose Creek, Cave Creek, Wickenburg Gold Show, and the Bisbee area.  I will take these one at a time so I can go into more detail.

Our first trip out was to Rose Creek, an old favorite, and there are many changes there even though the area looks pretty much the same.  The prospecting is still good with a few gold nuggets being found here and there.  The creek redeposits gold all along its' course with each gulley washing rain. 

It was about 38 degrees that day, so we did not stay too long.  However, we did get a look at the creek and diggings have taken the banks back about another 3 feet or so.  We did find a little gold dust, but did not try panning in our usual spot upstream a ways.  This area is open only to hand equipment and we will give it another shot on a warmer day before we head back to Colorado.

We were surprised by the number of people parked along the side of the road to access the area…and on a Tuesday!  I can only imagine what this looks like on the weekend.  We talked with several prospectors there, and they were from all over as well as locally. 

For those of you who will visit the snow bound mountains this summer, I do hope you are getting your equipment into shape now.  If you haven’t gone through your cons from last year, do it before Spring gets here or they could wait for another year for you to find out what is in them.  LOL!  I’ll give you a look at the Tucson show next as I have a lot of pictures to resize for it. 

Good Prospecting to You,

Shirley

www.hookedongold.com

hookedongold@gmail.com

Suction Dredging Ban NOT Overturned in California

Thanks to readers Rick Solinsky and Jerry Hobbs who were kind enough to let me know of an error in the last post, I am sharing some more information on the California dredging ban.  I am posting what they sent me here:  


We got rid of the injunction to stop issuing permits, but now have the 2 laws, SB670 & AB120 to get rid of. There is a hearing on the 2 bills feb. 22, 2012.

I misinterpreted the original post and so did quite a few other people.  Please note that the original link below is about the injunction to stop issuing PERMITS, and not lifting the dredging ban.  http://www.plp2.org/forums/showthread.php?483-PLP-WINS!!!-injunction-overturned-Suction-Dredging-permits

Thanks again for the clarification.  I received the last link from GPOC whom I must now inform of their own error. (I thought this was too good to be true)!  I will go and add a comment on the other post as well.  Rick, and Jerry, submit one too so we get the story straight.

I have deleted the other post the original post to help with the confusion.
 

Good Prospecting to You,

Shirley

www.hookeongold.com

hookedngold@gmail.com

Looking forward to Summer's Golden Sunsets

                                    Sunset at CORA, near Fairplay last summer

 Sheesh! Every time I log into Blogger the format is different.  LOL!  

Gold price closed at $1667.00 for the weekend.  Everyone is wondering what it will do in the coming weeks, too.  Half of what I read says up and the other half says down.  The Federal Open Market Committee meets next Wednesday and what they decide could make a difference....but maybe not.  I think everyone agrees gold will go up some time this year, and possibly to $2000.00 an ounce.  Not too far off its' annual average march of 10% a year for the past 10 years, so that is a safe bet.

Did you know that the average age of vehicles on the road went up this year?  Yup, 10.8 years old.  Now, if all of you who have cars on the road out there that are as old as mine, went out and bought a new car, the price of metals (especially palladium) might go up.....or not.  However, Russia's stockpile of the metal becoming depleted and its' largest miner of nickel and palladium cutting production next year, might.

On the website, you should be seeing the menu being changed, and, hopefully, I found all the page links that needed severing.  I saw that part of the menu buttons were still going to pages that I should have cut off last year.   I don't know about you, but last year was a STRANGE year around here.  Well, some years are just like that.  The site should be tightened up and some information has been updated as well.  I will get back to other pages and look at them for updates this next week.

On a personal note, we are making our plans for some time in Arizona in February.  It is still up in the air as to whether we will make the 2012 Tucson Show, but we WILL be headed south some time in February.

I saw while I was doing updates, that Hooked on Gold has been online for 7  years!  Lots of things have happened since then, too.  Hope your week is a golden one and make sure you are out there finding gold or at least making plans to.  I am looking forward to spending more time on what I started this website and blog for and less on the things that are just busy work.  

Good Prospecting to You,
Shirley Weilnau
www.hookedongold.com
hookedongold@gmail.com

Happy Gold Prospecting New Year!

                                                         Happy New Year to All! 

Blogger has made many changes since I was last here. However, I see the default font is still unacceptable and I can't seem to change it until the post is completed. (sigh) Always something, eh?

You will find updates going on on the site, so please bear with me as I change the menu, etc.  The store is going away...just not enough activity to warrant keeping it going, and the price of gold is getting high enough I cannot keep up with gold nuggets any longer.  Rest assured, however, I plan to keep up with the website.  Hopefully, with less going on, I can blog more this year and worry about selling a whole lot less.  I, also, am still getting form requests I assume for the Bucket Classifier.  That page should have been gone years ago and I cannot find links to it anywhere.  If you find one, PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHERE IT IS!  If you have asked for it and not gotten it, it is because the page should be gone and what you are sending does not tell me what it was for.  I also had forms for panning instructions at one time.

I DO hope all of you have had a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season.  Mine starts at Thanksgiving and ends with New Years, so the season encompasses many weeks.

December was cold and we had 16 inches of snow in Denver, half our snow for the winter.  We are enjoying very mild temps the first of January, and I hope this doesn't mean February will be -40 degrees!

We are planning on a trip to Arizona for the Tucson show and to spend some time with friends there.  I am looking over last year's calendar and am picking which stories to share with you this winter about our gold prospecting adventures here in Colorado.  Finding gold in Colorado is becoming very challenging, although several areas still are producing enough to keep everyone happy.

Hope the beginning of your year is pleasant, and you find time to get your prospecting equipment in tip top shape for the coming season.  Be vigilant out there and watch what is happening with the laws.  Contact your representatives and make sure your voice is heard. 

Good Prospecting to You,

Shirley Weilnau

www.hookedongold.com