Bald Eagle Chapter of the GPAA
Monthly Newsletter
The Paystreak

August 2008

The Bald Eagle Chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association (GPAA) was founded in 2001 to preserve and promote the great heritage of the North American Prospector. The club is dedicated to providing a platform for the exchange of information, presenting an organized voice for recreational and professional prospectors and helping it's members find more gold.
Today, the GPAA has become the worlds largest prospecting organization, but our goals haven't changed one bit. Through television, the internet and print media, the GPAA today provides more information and is a more effective organized voice that ever before. GPAA programs provide places to go, local support, free information service and much more.

July 25, 2008
Gold $928.40
Silver $17.34
Platinum $1740.00

President
Bob (Ziggy) Seager
717-935-5384
caverzig@embarqmail.com

Vice President
George Dunkle
814-643-1078
geodunk@ msn.com

Secretary/Treasure
Gail Fletcher
814-687-3990
goldlady@windstream.net

Store Manager
Jim Johnston
570-398-2312

State Director
Joe (Butch) Doren
814-342-2661
jrd@iqnetsys.net

Outing Coordinator's
Volunteer's Needed

Dates to remember:

Aug 2nd MEETING HAS BEEN MOVED TO STEVENSVILLE, PA THIS WILL BE A CLUB OUTING WITH GOLD PANNING AND METAL DETECTING. Goldpanning, fishing and metal dectecting will be allowed.
The meeting will begin around 4pm, followed by a pot luck meal.
Primative camping will be permitted on the property. There is also a campground a few miles from the property.
If you need more information, or directions please email me at goldlady@windstream.net

Please remember to respect the owners property!!!

The September 4, 2008 meeting has been moved. It will be held at the festival at Penn's Cave. The club will have a booth there for gold panning. As soon as an approximate meeting time has been decided.
For more information, directions, etc. please visit... http://www.nittanyantique.org/fall.html

October 4th, regular meeting back at the Stormstown building @11:30
 
October 18-19 - GPAA Gold Show Dayton, OH at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds

November 7th - Regular club meeting 11:30 @ Stormstown- Nomination of Officers for the 2009 year.

December 5th - Annual Thanksgiving & Christmas Holiday meeting,   (menu to be planed) Additional nominations for officers followed by election of officers.  Annual nugget drawing for members with name badges.  You must be present at the December meeting to be eligible.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING A COVERED DISH, DESERT, OR SODA FOR THE POT LUCK LUNCH FOLLOWING THE MEETINGS.
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Club Meeting and Directions....The Club's meeting place is the Halfmoon Township Building on Municipal Lane in Stormstown, PA and we meet on the 1st Saturday of each month at 11:30am The Bald Eagle Chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association (GPAA) was founded in January 2001 to preserve and promote the great heritage of the North American Prospector. The club is dedicated to providing a platform for the exchange of information, presenting an organized voice for recreational and professional prospectors and helping it's members find more gold.

Directions to the Bald Eagle Chapter Cub Meeting

State College: Take 322 North out of State College until you get to Rt. 550 at the flashing light. Turn left and go 4 miles. Turn right onto Municipal Lane in Stormstown and continue down the street, the township building is on the left.

Port Matilda: These directions may seem confusing however it is really just a matter of staying on the main road up and over the mountain. From the traffic light on 220 turn RIGHT (South-East) onto High Rd [High St] and go 0.3 of a mile where you turn LEFT (North-East) onto E Oak St [Oak St], then immediately bear RIGHT (East) onto Beckwith Rd and go 0.2 of a mile. Turn RIGHT (South) onto SR-3017 [Port Mountain Rd] and go 0.9 of a mile. Bear LEFT (South) onto SR-3017 [Beckwith Rd] and go 0.8 of a mile. Road name changes to Beckwith Rd < 0.1 of a mile: Turn LEFT (North-East) onto SR-550 [RR-1] and go 1.7 miles and turn left onto Municipal Lane in Stormstown and continue down the street, the township building is on the left.

Altoona Area: Take I-99/US-220 north. Turn RIGHT (East) onto SR-350 [7 Stars Rd] and go 1.8 of a mile. Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-350 and go 0.8 : Bear LEFT (East) onto LR31071 and go 1.4 of a mile, Bear LEFT (East) onto SR-550 and go 1.8. Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-550 [RR-1] and go 5.6 miles. Turn left onto Municipal Lane in Stormstown and continue down the street, the township building is on the left.

From I-80: At exit 158, take SR-150 west. Road name changes to US-220 [SR-150] and go 15.9 miles. Take 322 east up over the mountain at the flashing yellow light turn right onto 550 and go 4 miles. Turn right onto Municipal Lane in Stormstown and continue down the street, the township building is on the left.

Collinswoods Properties ---If you need maps, or have any information on these properties, please let me know.

Outing co-ordinator....The club needs an outing co-ordinator, please see Ziggy.

IDEAS...Please bring any ideas about where to go or what to do to the meeting. If you don’t like to speak out, you can write it down and put it on the table up front. Make sure that Ziggy’s name is on it, and he can read it for you.
Please feel free to make suggestions for guest speakers.
(Likewise, if you have recipes, prospecting tips, or any other suggestions for the newsletter please let me know)

New Members... BADGES:  This is mainly for the new members….. Does everyone know that we have an annual nugget drawing for members based on having and wearing your name badge to the meetings?  For every meeting that you attend wearing your name badge, I will put a check mark in the attendance book.  You must be present at the December meeting.  When you attend the December meeting, you will receive a raffle ticket for the nugget drawing for each meeting that you attended wearing your name badge.  (attend 12 meeting, receive 12 raffle tickets)  (Note:  Here the term member applies to member, spouse and dependent children) If you don't have a name badge, we can order one for you, the cost is only $8.00.  Any questions, please see one of the club officers. If you have any articles of interest that you would like to see here, please let me know. Also, feel free to speak up if you know someone who would make a good speaker for one of the meetings; likewise, we want to hear about places to hold some group outings this year.

The Club Library is now available!!!! Check out the recent new acquisitions to the library. See George Dunkle, for anything that you would like to sign out. We’ve got some information regarding some of the club’s DVD collection. Ernie has taken some notes on the movies he’s watched and wanted to share this info with fellow club members. Please remember that this information is for informational purposes only; just to give you an idea of what the video or dvd may be about.
PLEASE REMEMBER : Old abandoned mines are potentially dangerous, and you should NEVER try to enter them. Safety always first. So with that said, each month we are going to try to give you a brief synopsis of what three of the DVD;s/Videos from the library are about, to try to help you with your selection. THANKS ERNIE!!!

Video Reviews

Video Reviews - from club member Ernie B.
Please remember to make safety a priority when prospecting.

Gold Fever - Alaska Beaches - DVD 44 & DVD47
Alaskan outing where club members are operating heavy equipment to feed the massive commercial tromal operation .  Others are using hi-bankers to test the material ahead of the bulldozer, helping to find richer material for processing.

Stewart Mine DVD#53
Tom Massey is given a guided tour into the worlds richest tourmaline mine.  (I'm trying to be objective, but this was great.)  Later George Massey demonstrates the new, old, rocker box.

The How to for Treasure Hunters - VCR #34
A life long treasure hunter visits seven beaches in florida and explains thru charts and on scene, how to read the ocean tides, shore lines and sea floor.  The first half deals with a show & tell of his finds, and necessary equipment.
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Bags of Concentrate. … are available for sale at each
meeting $5.00 each (+tax) - see Gail

The Club’s Chat room is up and running!!! Log on to talk to your fellow prospectors.
Just log on to www.pa-gold.com and click on Chat room. You can usually catch someone between 7-9pm. Feel free to explore the site, and check out the message board.

Prospecting Tip:  Prospecting Tip:  from www.treasurefish.com

Sluice clean up by Rich Downing, CA:  found that a produce drawer from an old refrigerator work well for getting everything out of the sluice on his dredge.  Just find one that is slightly wider than the end of your sluice.

Flood Gold by Dennis Krupnak, CA:  After a heavy rain, test pan the side streams that form off the main stream channel.  Many are just small diversions that flow back into the main stream.  They are often good sites for fine flood gold, which will be close to the surface.  The best concentrations are usually at the point where the branch first leaves the main stream, but be sure to test farther down also..

Camp Cooking…….. Corned beef stew from Jim from camping.about.com
This recipe is easy to prepare, and it requires no refrigerated ingredients.  Prep time 30 minutes

Ingredients:
1 or 2 cans corned beef 1 large onion diced
4 large potatoes, diced Salt & Pepper to taste
6 carrots, diced Louisiana hot sauce to taste

Preparation:  Put potatoes & carrots in a Dutch oven or other large pot with one quart of water.  Boil until potatoes & carrots are almost tender enough to eat.  Add onions and cook another 10 minutes.  Add corned beef last & cook for ten more minutes.  Salt & pepper to taste.  Serve hot w/crackers.   4-6 servings


Memberships: Show your support...Don't forget to get your membership to the GPAA, WWATS, or DEF from the club. Do it through our chapter. We benefit. Do it directly with them but tell them you are doing it through the club and we benefit. It doesn't cost you any more and we benefit. Want to know more about memberships ask a club officer.

License Plates....Club license plates are now available for just $5.00.

That's it for this month.....
Dig into our chapters web site at http://PA-Gold.com and stop in our chat room.
Note, present chatroom requires the turning off of all pop up blockers.

Finally Just For Laughs.....… The Criminal Lawyer

A man who had been caught embezzling millions from his employer went to a lawyer seeking defense.  He didn't want to go to jail.  But his lawyer told him "Don't worry.  You'll never have to go to jail with all that money."  And the lawyer was right.  When the man was sent to prison, he didn't have a dime.