Archive for January, 2010

The February 2010 Temecula Valley Prospectors meeting will be held on Saturday, February 13th, at 9:00 am. We are currently meeting at the Temecula Community Center located at 28816 Pujol St., Temecula CA.

This month, the Grand Prize Raffle will be drawn and someone is going home with a Variable Speed Desert Fox Automatic Gold Panning Machine valued at $339. Have you purchased your tickets yet? If not, you need to make sure you get there on the 13th and load up on the tickets because it could be going home with you!

Don’t forget to bring your finds of the month, so we can see what everyone has been doing.

We had a great turn out for Finds of the Month at the January Meeting with 8 participants who brought in finds they collected during the month of December.

Gold Find Winners were: Jim & Sue Jeffrey who displayed Gold found in several locations including the area the Club is going to in Jan 2010.
Gold Runner up was: Arnold Shields who displayed a picker nugget and hot rocks from the Cool Gardie Area and Fine Flakes from the last Bautista Club Outing.

December Gold Finds

Treasure Finds Winner was: Tracy Snethen who displayed Tourmaline Gem Stones he found.
Treasure Runner up was: Ray Bratton who displayed coins, jewelry, toy cars, and rings that he found at local parks and Tot lots.

Treasure Finds

More Treasure Finds

Also Displayed:
Judy displayed items she found around the Golden Gate Bridge while visiting the area.
Jack Kerber displayed Coins that he found at Jalama Beach.
Frank Ramirez displayed an animal skull found at our last Club outing to Bautista.
Peter Anest displayed local specimens of Gem Stones and rocks found in Murrieta.

Interesting Items Found

Congratulations to our winners!

Good luck to all TVP Members and bring Home the Gold! — Doug Balhorn

Members are encouraged to bring in their Finds of the Month to each club meeting no matter how big or small. They can be any metal items found with a Metal Detector and any Gold, Silver, or other precious metal found prospecting. The qualifying factor is that it has to be found and not purchased (i.e. bag of gold concentrate).

The January TVP Outing will be at the Cargo Muchacho Mountains near Glamis on Saturday January 16th. Please check the members only section on the TVP Forum for more details (January 2010 Outing Cargo Muchacho Mountains) or contact Wagonmaster Jay.

We have a booth at the Lancaster gold show. The gold show is a great way to let people know  that we are here and what we do. It is also a great way for us to get new members and make a little money from a raffle. We need volunteers to help out running the booth and answering questions. But most of all we need members to just come. The more the merrier. If you have not been to a gold show it is a lot of fun and you get to meet a lot of great people.

We need some members to help the Gpaa to setup on Friday morning 8am - noon. I will not be able to get there until Friday night due to work. We will set our booth up on saturday morning at 9am. The gold show will run from 10am-5pm on Saturday and 10am-4pm on Sunday. The Gpaa will need people to help take down after the show on Sunday. If you can help setup, take down, or run the booth, please give me a call at 951-244-3442.

The gold show will be held at the Antelope Valley Fairgrownds. The address is 2551 West Avenue H, Suite 102 H Lancaster, CA 93536.

Hi Everyone,

Nancy DeFalco from the GPAA contacted Ken Hannan, our Chapter President, today looking for some help over at the GPAA office in Temecula. We helped them back in November with different assembly projects, but I’m not sure what we will be helping with this time.

They are looking for help this Thursday, January 7th, at 8:30 am. Any volunteers from our Chapter that show up to help will earn Chapter Credits for TVP and lunch will be provided by the GPAA.

If you think you will be able to help out, please email Ken Hannan at president@gpaatvp.com so he can get a count to Nancy.

Here is the location information for those that can make it:

Gold Prospectors Association of America
43445 Business Park Drive, # 113
Temecula CA 92590
951-699-4749

The January 2010 Temecula Valley Prospectors meeting will be held this coming Saturday, January 9th, at 9:00 am. We are currently meeting at the Temecula Community Center located at 28816 Pujol St., Temecula CA.

Be sure to bring your finds of the month, so we can see what everyone has been doing.

Hope to see you there and Happy New Year!

The Southern California GPAA Gold and Treasure Show will be held in Lancaster this year on January 16th & 17th, 2010.

Here is the location of the show:

Antelope Valley Fairground
2551 W. Avenue H
Lancaster, CA 93536
Poppy Pavilion

Contact the GPAA at www.goldprospectors.org for more information.