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THE ALBERTA

In this Issue:

GOLD RUSH NEWS

GOLD: FUN FACTS! The world’s first gold vending machine was unveiled in May 2010. Located in

an ultra-luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi, the vending machine itself is covered in 24-

carat gold.

The word "gold" comes from the Old English word "geolu," meaning yellow.

Summer 2018

Alberta Gold Prospectors Association

Meet the Members! Happy Canada

Day! Spot Price of

Gold! & Much more!

Welcome New

Members!

*Ron Millson *Chan Hawkins

*Peter Stoochnoff *Aaron Miner

*Robert, Brenda, Addisyn, & Nicole

Adams *Donna, Lloyd, & Jennifer Finnie

*Raidan & Wayne Fu *Grant Clark

*Rick Wittner


AGPA Corn Roast Trenville park - near Elnora, AB

Save the date! September 7-9th

DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS? If you have any ideas or stories you would like to share, please

feel free to email me directly! Sarah Hollywood Newsletter Editor

If your membership is due please renew it . Please read and fill in the enclosed waiver. Membership dues can be sent to:

Kathy Trombley (Secretary/Treasurer)

PO Box 78034 383 Heritage Dr. SE

Calgary, AB T2H2Y1

Single $20 Family $30

Executive Team: President: Alexandra Hadash Vice-President: Jon Garner Secretary/Treasurer: Kathy Trombley Director: Fred Walker - Director Website Director: Terry Beaton Competitions Director: Robin Rosborough Dan Hadash Fundraising Director: Dan Hadash At Large: Rod Walker Christina Van Ember Fred Walker Communications: Sarah Hollywood [email protected]


Earthquakes Make Gold Veins in an Instant

Gold-quartz vein from Red Mountain Mining District,Ouray County,Colorado,USA

Pressure changes cause precious metal to deposit each time the crust moves.

Scientists have long known that veins of gold are formed by mineral deposition from hot fluids flowing through cracks deep in Earth’s crust. But a study published in Nature

Geoscience1 has found that the process can occur almost instantaneously — possibly within a few tenths of a second. The process takes place along ‘fault jogs’ — sideways

zigzag cracks that connect the main fault lines in rock, says first author Dion Weatherley, a seismologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. When an earthquake hits, the sides of the main fault lines slip along the direction of the fault, rubbing against each other. But the fault jogs simply open up. Weatherley and his co-author, geochemist

Richard Henley at the Australian National University in Canberra, wondered what happens to fluids circulating through these fault jogs at the time of the earthquake. What their calculations revealed was stunning: a rapid depressurization that sees the normal

high-pressure conditions deep within Earth drop to pressures close to those we experience at the surface. For example, a magnitude-4 earthquake at a depth of 11 kilometres would

cause the pressure in a suddenly opening fault jog to drop from 290 megapascals (MPa) to 0.2 MPa. (By comparison, air pressure at sea level is 0.1 MPa.) “So you’re looking at a

1,000-fold reduction in pressure,” Weatherley says. When mineral-laden water at around 390 °C is subjected to that kind of pressure drop, Weatherley says, the liquid rapidly

vaporizes and the minerals in the now-supersaturated water crystallize almost instantly — a process that engineers call flash vaporization or flash deposition. The effect, he says, “is sufficiently large that quartz and any of its associated minerals and metals will fall out of

solution”. Eventually, more fluid percolates out of the surrounding rocks into the gap, restoring the initial pressure. But that doesn’t occur immediately, and so in the interim a

single earthquake can produce an instant (albeit tiny) gold vein.

http://www.geologyin.com/2016/10/earthquakes-make-gold-veins-in-instant.html?m=1#r9lkIc0YY4cKGA4B.99


PRICE OF GOLD:

(Checked on June 27th, 2018)

On the Radar! Stay tuned for the Annual Non-Raffle Raffle. This year will be for not one - but

three nuggets!!

Good Luck Team Canada!! We wish you the best of luck in Slovakia on

August 6-11th, 2018!!

On behalf of the Alberta Gold Prospectors Association; Happy Canada Day!


Meet Your Members!

Jonathon (Jon) Garner—Vice President

Born in Edmonton, AB

Married to Karen, and his children are:

Christopher, Stephen, and David.

What is your favorite hobby? Toss up between fossil hunting and gold panning.

What got you into prospecting? A friend whose name is Robin.

What is the coolest thing you have found? An eosene horse tooth at Devon, AB, it’s about 35000 years old. Also a Mayan scraping stone.

How long have you been involved with the AGPA, and at what capacity? Been a non-participating member for about 25 years, but became active when I had more time. Also, with the advent of the World Gold panning championships in Placerville, California.

What is something that no one really knows about you, but that people who first meet you find interesting? That I am participating in the World Gold Panning Championships - and that these Championships take you all over the world. On a personal level, that my degree is actually in Food Science and not Chemistry.

What is a pet peeve of yours? I do the most cussing when I am in my truck, driving, so it has to be the other poor drivers (not me).

What is your favorite food? Lazy rice with smoked brautwurst.

You’re given a return ticket/expenses paid, and your allowed to sluice/gold pan anywhere in the world…where are you going? Australia

At six years old, what did you want to be when you grew up? I have never known what I wanted to be, or what I wanted to do. Now, what do you want to be when you grow up? A geologist.

If you could go prospecting with anyone person in the world who would it be? I would have to take my wife. Who else would help me shovel?

If you’re to give advice about prospecting to a rookie, what would it be? Gold is where you find it, but even if you don’t find any, there is nothing like sitting beside and watching an ambling river to calm the soul. Who do you admire the most? People who make a difference in the world. Also, my family and friends.

*Stay tuned for the next upcoming newsletter, to enjoy meeting another member of your AGPA Executive Team!*



ALBERTA GOLD PROSPECTORS ASSOCIATION Application—Change of Address—Renewals Please Print information & sign the Waiver __ 1 Year Single $20.00, Family $30.00 __2 Years Single $40.00, Family $60.00

Alberta Gold Prospectors Association waiver: Because prospecting can be dangerous, the Alberta Gold Prospectors Association (AGPA) requires you accept this waiver as part of the application & renewal and holds true until the signatory writes the Secretary or fails to renew after six (6) months from renewal date. All members and their friends on AGPA outings are at their own risk and will assume all risk of injury, damage and /or loss to those per-sons, their children and /or their property in any manner arising from the outing or related activity. (AGPA) of Red Deer, Alberta will be indemnified and saved and held forever harmless from any claim, attorney fees, legal fees, expenses, court costs, and /or causes of action which may arise directly or indirectly as a result of any such (AGPA) outing. Under-age applicant’s waiver must be signed by legal guardian. A signed waiver application will be acceptance of the waiver as read. Alberta Gold Prospectors Association Privacy Statement. The AGPA may use your personal information to help promote the club’s activities. This includes but is not limited to the use of your name and photographic image in the clubs printed and electronic communications, this includes a membership phone list which will be distributed among club members from time to time via newsletters. The AGPA will not distribute or sell your personal information to any party without written consent. Date ………………… Name …………………………………………………………… Address …………………………………………………………. Town/City ………………………………………………………. Postal code ……………………… Phone ………………………… E-mail address ………………………………(very important to have a current e-mail) Signature/s …………………………………………………………… Witness signature …………………………………………………… For Family memberships Please have each member sign on back Please make checks payable to :

Alberta Gold Prospectors Association Mail to:

Secretary/Treasurer

PO Box 78034 383 Heritage Dr. SE Calgary, AB T2H2Y1

ALBERTA GOLD PROSPECTORS ASSOCIATION Application—Change of Address—Renewals Please Print information & sign the Waiver __ 1 Year Single $20.00, Family $30.00 __2 Years Single $40.00, Family $60.00

Alberta Gold Prospectors Association waiver: Because prospecting can be dangerous, the Alberta Gold Prospectors Association (AGPA) requires you accept this waiver as part of the application & renewal and holds true until the signatory writes the Secretary or fails to renew after six (6) months from renewal date. All members and their friends on AGPA outings are at their own risk and will assume all risk of injury, damage and /or loss to those persons, their children and /or their property in any manner arising from the out-ing or related activity. (AGPA) of Red Deer, Alberta will be indemnified and saved and held forever harmless from any claim, attorney fees, legal fees, expens-es, court costs, and /or causes of action which may arise directly or indirectly as a result of any such (AGPA) outing. Under-age applicant’s waiver must be signed by legal guardian. A signed waiver application will be acceptance of the waiver as read. Alberta Gold Prospectors Association Privacy Statement. The AGPA may use your personal information to help promote the club’s activities. This includes but is not limited to the use of your name and photographic image in the clubs printed and electronic communications, this includes a membership phone list which will be distributed among club members from time to time via newsletters. The AGPA will not distribute or sell your personal information to any party with-out written consent. Date ………………… Name …………………………………………………………… Address …………………………………………………………. Town/City ………………………………………………………. Postal code ……………………… Phone ………………………… E-mail address ………………………………(very important to have a current e-mail) Signature/s …………………………………………………………… Witness signature …………………………………………………… For Family memberships Please have each member sign on back Please make checks payable to :

Alberta Gold Prospectors Association Mail to:

Secretary/Treasurer

PO Box 78034 383 Heritage Dr. SE Calgary, AB T2H2Y1

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