BEDROCK-NEWS THE OFFICICIAL QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE BEDROCK PROSPECTORS CLUB

April/May/June

MONTHLY MEETING PLACE

PUYALLUP MASONIC HALL 1005 West Pioneer Ave.

HELD ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Well it’s that time again . Time to start planning

for a great 2015 Prospecting Season. We’re so

busy. Our Calendar takes up most of the

Newsletter. Take a look………

April

7th Board Mtg.

11th Johnnies Breakfast

If you have never been to one of our breakfast

socials, your missing out on some very fine food, a

lot of conversations with friends and just maybe

some of our most up to date club information on

special outings and events.

17 th & 18th and 19th Cashmere Gold Show

One of our favorite shows of the year folks. We

set up on fri afternoon and then spend the next 2

days promoting our club, our outings, our events

and we get to meet friends and folks we normally

don’t get to see often enough. It’s worth the trip.

April 17th Idlewilde Elementary School Outing

Here’s an outing where we have as much fun as the

kids. They love panning for gold and playing with

metal detectors. It’s just a few quality hours with

the students. Come on out and you’ll see what I

mean.

20th General Mtg.

May

1st,2nd,3rd Our Spring Fling at the beach. A nice

week end on the beach, prospecting , metal

detecting and filling our bellies. What could be

more fun.

5th Our Board Meeting

16th Saddle Mountain Rock Hunt.

A day trip to Saddle Mountain in search of Petrified

Wood. Just bring your lunch, buckets and shovels.

18th General Meeting

23rd,24th 25th Memorial Week end at the Blewett

claims. This usually a big turnout. Remember it’s

not open season yet, so bring your HPA’s and your

Gold N Fish booklet to prospect if your going into

the water. Saturday Eve. is our big Pot Luck Dinner.

Come hungry

29th Lake Louise elementary school outing

June

2n d Board Meeting

4th East Olympia Elem. School outing.

Just another great outing with the students, like

Idlewilde. We could always use extra hands. They

have a bunch of kids there.

6th Puyallup Gem and Mineral Outing

This is one outing you don’t want to miss. Bedrock

has traditionally had it’s Gold Trailer set up for folks

to experience. We could always use the help

working the trailer.

Now for those of you who havn’t been there

before. This is a Super Club who really knows

ROCKS. They will have gem polishing

demonstrations going on all day, Lots of rocks and

gems for sale in their many stands. More great

food than you could imagine. It’s just a great way

to spend a Saturday.

13th Our Rendezvous

This is our Big Season Outing at the Club. We will

have prospecting demonstrations going on all day

as well as many members selling all kinds of stuff.

Don’t forget the Great Luncheon. Feel free to bring

a desert. Club puts out the Hamburgers and Hot

dogs. This is an all day event.

15th General Meeting

20th, 21st Resource Coalition Gold Show

Thurston County Fairgrounds, Lacey Wa. Let’s all

attend and support Resource Coalition and check

out the New Show in town. Look for the flyer for

further info or check out their website.

July

7th Board Meeting

11th and 12th Natchez Outing and Clean up.

They tell me there is all kinds of special things

planned for this week end. A few events, or should

I say contests. But from what I hear, it sounds like a

full week end. A flyer should be coming out for this

date. Look for it.

20th General Meeting

25th Hansen Creek Rock Hunt

Our own Jim Curtiss leads a group up Hansen

Creek in search of Terminated crystals. Everybody

finds them. This is just a one day outing.

August

1st Blewett Opens

This means you don’t need an HPA to run your

equipment. You still need that Gold N Fish

pamphlet though.

4th Board meeting

14th,15th,16th Snoqualmie Railroad Days

This is a Huge event for the club. We were asked to

participate in this event and we will have the gold

trailer working, and maybe a whole bunch more

planned. Watch for our flyer on this.

15th Naches Claims close to open season mining.

17th General Meeting

21st,22nd,23rd Resource Coalition Miners Rally

Super event, the whole week end. Big night metal

detector hunt, lots of activities, raffles etc.

Camping spaces available.

September

1st Board Meeting

5th Blewett Week End

12th Mc Coy Creek Claims Outing’

It’s our first club trip to the claims and due to the

limited cleared areas to camp. We are advising all

members to tent it, instead of campers for this trip.

At least until we get areas cleared. This will be our

primary concern for making this week end. It’s ok,

tents are cool.. what? You don’t have a tent. Buddy

up with another member who has one.

19th Chelan Fairgrounds Metal Detector Hunt

This should be better than expected attendance

considering all the neat stuff we found last year

and only scratched the surface. If you don’t have a

machine and equipment and still want to attend,

contact me and I will set you up for the day.

21st. General Meeting

October

3rd. Blewett Week end

6th Board Meeting

19th General Meeting

This meeting is for the nomination of officers.

Thinking of stepping up and being a bigger part

of the club, We welcome you. Here’s your chance

to make a difference.

17th Blewett Week End

This week End is scheduled but we will be watching

the weather. It gets cold up there this time of the

year.

For now, that’s it folks. I know, there’s a lot

missing. But we will try our best to announce all

the Waddell Creek Trips, the detecting Buddy

Hunts and the Sportsman’s Warehouse Outings as

soon as they become solid. Just keep looking for

those flyers and peeking in on Facebook and of

course our Bedrock website for the latest events

planned.

If you have an idea on a possible outing, or even a

day trip somewhere and would be willing to help

in getting a group of our members together. Let us

know, we will post it right here. We will be happy

to help promote any new ideas from members

wanting to do something in this manor. Thanks.

Our President working a strip up at Blewett.

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If you any questions please contact

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BEDROCK PROSPECTORS OFFICERS AND BOARD 2015 President: Richard Holcomb 253-359-5890 raholcombsr_bedrock@msn.com

Vice President: Jack Ragusa 253-389-3119 jackragusa@gmail.com Secretary: Glenn Simmons 253-722-7124 elkblind@aol.com Vice Secretary: Dennis Petersen 253-848-8112 pete_n_gwen@comcast.net Treasure: Bill Willette 253-581-2342 wdwillette@comcast.net Vice Treasure: Sandy Cosgrove 253-389-4429 sdcosgrove@yahoo.com Board Positions: 1: Mark Smith 253-312-1556 mfinman59@gmail.com 2: Vic Pisoni 206-722-4238 tunnelhound@yahoo.com 3: Ugene Tucksen 206-713-8995 samuri2503@aol.com 4: Ken Denny 253-230-1779 kddenny@q.com 5: Jack Rikansrud 253-884-4346 jack@centurytel.net 6: Gene Zimmerman 360-897-9043 zimmergc@comcast.net Sgt. at Arms: Sharon Rikansrud 253-884-4346 jack@centurytel.net Claims Chairman: Jim Curtiss 360-427-7210 mining4minerals@comcast.net Membership Chairman: Colleen Zimmerman 360-897-9043 zimmergc@comcast.net Membership Drawing: Glenn Simmons 253-722-7124 Web Master Ron Larson 253-850-0699 rlarson686@comcast.net Raffle: Mike Zeka 253-503-7857 zeka_33@live.com

2015 Dues are due Now. Your dues may be sent in with the application page in letter. Be sure to update all contact information so you may get the latest notices on upcoming events and outings. Other ways to pay your dues - At all of our meetings and outings, events and gold shows. We take credit and debit cards, checks and of course, cash. You don’t want to miss out on what may prove to be a very spectacular year for the club.

June 13th Gold Miner’s Rendezvous

The Miner’s Rendezvous is scheduled

for June 13th and promises to provide a

little fun for everyone. We have a full

day planned with setup at 8:00 AM,

prospecting classes from 9:00 AM to

12:00 AM, Lunch from 12:00 to 2:00

PM, field games from 1:00 PM to 3:00

PM, and tear down at 6:00 PM. We’re

planning to load the day with activities

and one big continuous yard sale of

local vendors and miners with excess

equipment. We also are going to

provide some classes on gold

prospecting.

There will also be a “Miner’s Camp”

where we’ll have a broad selection of

equipment to look at and folks to explain

how it’s used. Other activities include a

layout to show you how to locate the

gold path on a stream or waterway.

The schedule of events:

8:00 AM – Set up the hall and parking

lot stalls

9:00 AM – “How & Where to find Gold”

Class in the hall

9:45 to 10:00 – Break

10:00 AM – “Basics on the Gold and

Fish Pamphlet” Class in the hall

10:45 to 11:00 – Break

11:00 AM – “Gold Dredge” Class in the

hall

11:45 to 1:30 PM – Break and lunch

(lunch will be available until 2:00 PM)

1:30 to 3:00 PM – Field games (Speed

gold panning,, Water balloon toss – with

gold pans, Five gallon bucket bean bag

toss, etc.)

3:00 to 3:45 PM – “Highbanker” Class in

the hall

3:45 to 4:00 PM – Break

4:00 PM until we call it quits – Enjoy the

swap meet and camaraderie!!

The gold panning trailer will be setup

and there’ll be club members to show

you how to pan (or tell you what you’re

doing wrong).

JUNE 13, 2015

G0LD MINER’S

RENDEZVOUS

Rendezvous Events:

There will be a swap meet to exchange mining equipment, pot luck

and barbeque, gold nugget raffle and panning contests.

Seminars: How and where to find gold, Basics of Gold and Fish

Pamphlet, How to Dredge, How to use a Highbanker

Our Season Opener

All Are Welcome!

Swapmeet

Training

FUN

Doors Open

9AM to 6PM

Lunch 12 to 2PM

Learn how to get

your own GOLD!

Win a Gold Nugget!

Visit the gold camp

and talk to the

miners!

BEDROCK

PROSPECTORS

Puyallup Masonic Hall 1005 West Pioneer Ave.

Puyallup, WA

www.bedrockprospectors.org

June 13, 2015

9AM to 6PM

On Saturday, June 20th and Sunday June 21st , Resource Coalition will be hosting their own GOLD SHOW at the Thurston County fairgrounds, in Lacey , Wa.

Bedrock will be taking a booth And will be operating the gold trailer. We will be needing all the help we can get. So let’s all Do what we can to participate in this great event. We will Need members for both, the booth and the trailer. Please let us Know if you can help. Ohhh, we will be giving away another nice White’s Metal Detector on the 21st. We will start selling tickets on the April General Meeting and most outings and events Prior to the Sunday Drawing.

JULY 11 & 12

PROSPECTING PLAY DAY EVENT & NACHES

OPEN/CLAIM CLEAN-UP

Prospecting, Potluck (burgers & hot dogs provided), game/contest events for all ages. Prizes, Prizes!

Events are still in the planning stage but we know there will be a

panning contest. This will be a great time for club members to

show off their prospecting skills and share their knowledge with the

newbies and just have a good time. New members can pick the

brain of some of the long-time members with respect to all of our

claims and different types of equipment. This event is for you, make

it what you want or tell us what you want. Contact Colleen

Zimmerman 360-897-9043, Ugene Tucksen 206-713-8995, Bill

Willette 253-581-2342 or Skip Kidd 253-939-4851 with any

suggestions.

FREE DRY CAMPING

IN HALFWAY FLATS

CAMPGROUND OVER-

FLOW AREA.

CAMPING IN CAMP

SITES ALONG THE

RIVER FOR A FEE.

POTABLE WATER

AVAILABLE AND

CLEAN VAULT

TOLIETS (4)

SAT. – PROSPECTING

– GAME/CONTESTS

FOR ALL AGES –

POTLUCK DINNER

(BURGERS & HOT

DOGS SUPPLIED) –

THERE WILL BE

EVENTS FOR THE

KIDS AND

GRANDKIDS TOO!

SUN. – CLAIM CLEAN-

UP & PROSPECTING

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QUEIN SABE CLAIM –

NACHES RIVER – EAST

OVER HWY 410

(CHINOOK PASS) TO

MILE POST MARKER 91,

TURN RIGHT & CROSS

BRIDGE AND TURN

LEFT AND FOLLOW OLD

RIVER ROAD TO

CAMPGROUND

In the upcoming weeks, we will be asking of members to help out with portions of our educational sessions in outings to come, such as our June Rendezvous. We need members to help teach our newer members how various pieces of prospecting equipment actually work. It wont take much time but if we can get a few to help out with this, we all benefit from your time donated. Our May outing has been a prime example of how our club excels in this area. Many who just a short time ago and didn’t have a clue to what a gold cube was, now are pulling significant amounts of fine gold off the beach and themselves are teaching others. Our club has a proud reputation of being an advocate of education in the mining and prospecting world. Let’s all try to uphold that reputation by when asked, step up and volunteer your valuable time so others may benefit from your knowledge and again, they may be able to go out into the prospecting world armed with the proper knowledge needed to find

all that gold that dreams are made of. We all have our own specific expertise. We all excel in different areas. By sharing our knowledge with one another, we make our organization truly great. Just a last note to end this newsletter…. We will , yes be having trips to Waddell Creek thru out the season and they wont be announced in the newsletter. Also , our Buddy hunts ( metal detecting outings) will be starting very soon. We will be advertising these type outings only on Facebook and by phone calls due to the last minute decision to put these days on. So it is your responsibility to keep up with when these outings will be held by periodically checking out our facebook page. You may also give you name to one of our board members to put you on the call list for any outings you are interested in. We will do our best to keep you involved. Thanks….