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Share Some Stories with Us at Our Next Secretary/Editor: Penny Esplin PRESIDENT: Karen Darnell* *VICE PRESIDENT: Bill Moore* *TREASURER: Alice Phillips August 27, 2015 Prez Sez: Did you do the things on your to-do list over the summer? Share some stories with us at our next meeting because we would love to hear them! With the valley's autumn rains right around the corner, I thought it might be nice to take a look at what the drier central part of our state has to offer the Millennium Digger. The Bend Visitors Center has rockhounding maps available for purchase. The maps include GPS coordinates and geological histories of rock hounding areas. I haven't seen these maps before, so if you have one, bring it to a meeting sometime so we can give it a look. Bend Visitor Center 750 NW Lava Road, Suite 160 (corner of Oregon Avenue and Lava Road) Bend, OR 97701 (877) 245-8484 toll-free (541) 382-8048 local If you haven't heard yet, there are areas in southern Oregon's gold country that are slated for federal Withdrawal from Mineral Entry. With an increasing interest in mining, placer and lode, we should be doing everything we can reasonably can to keep the opportunity available for those developing an occupation in prospecting and mining. Public input is still being sought regarding a mineral withdrawal in aid of legislation on public lands in southwest Oregon. The mineral withdrawal concerns nearly 96,000 acres of National Forest Systems lands on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and just over 5,200 1 acres of Bureau of Land Management lands on the Medford and Coos Bay districts. The withdrawals are located in the Rough & Ready/Baldface Creek and Hunter Creek/Pistol River areas. A five-year mineral withdrawal, if approved by the US Department of Interior, would potentially begin before the end of a two-year segregation period which started with the publication of a Federal Register Notice on June 29th. The publication of the federal notice started a 90-day public comment period that extends through September 28th. Written comments should be addressed to the BLM office in Portland. The public will also have the opportunity to verbally comment or provide written comments at two public meetings scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. this Wednesday in Gold Beach and this Thursday in Grants Pass. The Grants Pass meeting will be held in the Anne G. Basker Auditorium on NW 6th Street." Our September outing is coming right up on Sept 19. We're going to our Jeeter Creek claim on the Little North Fork Santiam. Have you been there yet? It isn't awfully hard to access and plenty of room for everyone on the streamside. Read more about it in the August meeting minutes included. See you soon, Karen Call to Order: Karen called the meeting to order @ 7:00 pm. Attendance: 10 Minutes from July: Members have read the minutes and all approved. Treasurer’s Report: Our website fee of $141.00 was approved by members. -Reimbursement was made to Karen/StreamSavers for June and July -Reimbursement was made to Joe for BLM data Joe made the motion for approval of Treasure’s Report, Delmon seconded and all were in favor. 2 Claims: Joe mailed our necessary claims documents; Penny is taking care of others due by Dec. 31. Old Business: Joe e-mailed members claims packets (maps and directions) for DT1, Fossil Flats and Jeeter Creek. Karen reported: -StreamSavers paperwork is now in front of the legislative council StreamSavers bid on a job in Eugene Joe and Claudia visited Armadillo Mining in Grants Pass, and they said that, "there are people asking about work being done like StreamSavers offers". Outings/Events: LAST: Our metal detecting on Aug. 8th outing in Hubbard had a nice turnout. We found a lot of rail road spikes and hardware. Not sure just what everyone found, but no treasures, this time. NEWEST UPCOMING OUTING! Saturday Sept 19th Jeeter Creek. We will meet in Stayton at the Park and Ride just off Hwy 22 @ 9:30am. Then we will drive up the Little North Fork Rd to our claim. You can bring a sluicebox or just a pan (or whatever you want to use). A small shovel and classifier and large gallon or 2 gallon bags (for transporting fines back home, if you want). If the first trail is too steep for you, the second trail will work; it’s just a bit longer. Bring water, something for lunch and dress accordingly! OCTOBER: Central Oregon Petrified Wood- Courtesy of Ken. He says its 70 miles out of Bend. We agreed to save this for an October outing; the weather is cooler; the insects should be “at bay”. It is just a nice season all around. We will set the actual date during our September meeting. -Karen is also going to check into a metal detecting outing by Hubbard/Butteville; there is a lot of history there. (Tentative, no set date) New Business: All miners should be advised to not stir up any court cases; to do so now would put us in State Court, and that would be detrimental to our cause, because it’s the State that wants us shut down. 3 “In order to support a federal injunction to stop SB838 moratorium it will require individual miners and mining associations to contribute additional funds. Once the federal injunction is filed it should put more pressure on the Oregon legislative 2016 short session in Feb. or March to stop the moratorium.” (As per email, Tom Quintal WVM) During the Miner’s Rally at the state capitol, pledge forms were available to anyone willing to pledge money to be used in future mining court cases. Well, the time has come to fulfill those pledges. Willamette Valley Miners contributed a total of $2,700 during their last meeting. Plaintiffs are needed for the new Federal case. Joe made a motion for the Millennium Diggers Association to be plaintiffs for the case. Penny seconded. All present members were in favor. -Karen will fill out the application and act as the contact person for the Millennium Diggers. More plaintiffs lend credibility for the miners. -Karen read off the plaintiff application details. This action does not bring any financial obligations to the Association. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joe made a motion for us to give $150 to Clear Lake Methodist Church as a thank you for letting us use their Fellowship Hall for our meetings. Terrie seconded, so did Delmon, and all were in favor. Penny agreed to send the check and thank you card to the church on behalf of the Millennium Diggers Association. Joe passed around a vial of gold from his new claim down in southern Oregon. The gold was found by a “claim jumper” who had mistakenly filed a claim on top of Joe’s. When he found out he had been in the wrong, he gave Joe the vial of gold he had mined (at least part of the gold anyway). Break and Raffle ticket sales: Delmon brought in 4 metal detectors and donated them for our table raffle! Snacks for next meeting: Karen will bring. Rocks/Treasures Shared Letter “I”: Penny brought some jewelry made with “Iolite”, a variety of Cordierite (also called Water Sapphire), chemical composition: magnesium aluminum silicate. It has strong “pleochroism” (multi- directional color change). It shows a strong transformation of hue in different crystal directions; changing from yellow-gray, to dark blue-violet, to light blue as it is turned. It is valued as a geological thermometer and used as a guide to the grade of metamorphism. It is also called “Viking’s Stone”, because it has been 4 suggested that this mineral was used in the Norseman’s Atlantic navigation to locate the sun’s position in cloudy weather (the strongest polarization of sky light, and the bluest hue in the iolite, is at 90o from the sun). “Rocks and Minerals” pg 294, Fredrick H. Pough and “Gemstones of the World” pg 180, Walter Schumann Iolite Penny also brought two “I don’t know’s”: The first one is a sparkling rose brooch, encrusted with cubic zirconium (?). Implanted in the back is a tiny, faceted genuine ruby. The question remains: Is this is some sort of designer’s trademark or signature? And how to identify it? (Penny thought maybe it was some cubic zirconium jewelry created at Wah Chang?) -The second “I don’t know” is a rod of real heavy metal of some sort that has a crystalized surface. It is not magnetic, very heavy, very bright. Still don’t know! Rose Brooch Ruby on back Close-up of ruby 5 Unidentified heavy metal rod, crystalized metal. Letter for September is “J”: T-Shirts: Delmon was wearing a T-shirt with the Millennium Diggers logo on it. He said he had it done back in 2001, at Clackamas Town Center for about $7.00. He said he just presented them with his Millennium Diggers membership card, and they used that for the print on the shirt. –Karen said she will check with her friend in Beaverton to see if her shop can print our logo on some T-shirts for us, and get an estimate of the cost. We agreed it would be a great way to show off our membership! More information regarding this is pending. Will know more next meeting. OUR NEXT MEETING IS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 @ 7:00pm Be There! Visit our website at http://www.millenniumdiggers.com/ The Millennium Diggers Association is a group based in Keizer, Oregon, which is near Salem, Oregon.
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