Hi my name is Jason
i just joined the club today 12/15/2015
Was wondering how long it takes to get my club card.
I need help with the area's i can prospect.
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Welcome Jason!
Where are you located? What are you looking to prospect for?
Where are you located? What are you looking to prospect for?
QUOTE (Crusty @ Dec 15 2015, 05:25 PM) 
Welcome Jason!
Where are you located? What are you looking to prospect for?
Where are you located? What are you looking to prospect for?
Im located in Fowler Colorado
i'm looking to prospect for Gems and Smokey Quartz
you are out in the flats. I dont know anything about digging out there. Any areas in the hills that you frequent? I live in colorado springs and can show you some stuff around here when its not snowed in.
QUOTE (nate @ Dec 15 2015, 05:36 PM)
you are out in the flats. I dont know anything about digging out there. Any areas in the hills that you frequent? I live in colorado springs and can show you some stuff around here when its not snowed in.
I Just moved to the area. Looking for someone to show me around.
Is there any claims i can check out that the club has?
QUOTE (JasonPulsifer @ Dec 15 2015, 05:41 PM)
I Just moved to the area. Looking for someone to show me around.
Is there any claims i can check out that the club has?
Is there any claims i can check out that the club has?
i would like to join you when it's not snowed out
QUOTE (JasonPulsifer @ Dec 15 2015, 05:41 PM)
I Just moved to the area. Looking for someone to show me around.
Is there any claims i can check out that the club has?
Is there any claims i can check out that the club has?
The club doesn't own any claims... more geared towards educating members on doing the proper research to find their own. We do have a couple members who are generous enough to host get togethers on their claims, mostly for lifetime members but occasionally opened up to annual members. Not aware of anything out in your neck of the woods.
QUOTE (Crusty @ Dec 15 2015, 05:50 PM)
The club doesn't own any claims... more geared towards educating members on doing the proper research to find their own. We do have a couple members who are generous enough to host get togethers on their claims, mostly for lifetime members but occasionally opened up to annual members. Not aware of anything out in your neck of the woods.
i would like to go up torward clear creek i just waiting for my stuff i had to order.
left all my stuff in california.
i have to get a sluice box again.
I havent done any gold panning or sluicing at all, but i know there are several people who do go up there and have found some flakes. One thing to know in colorado is you wont be finding nuggets like you could in cali. Mostly fine flakes and dust. I would check streams aaround you for black sands. See if any rivers/streams have headwaters in gold producing areas. Gold has had millenia to erode and wash 50-100 miles.....an easy task. Southeast of you in baca county there was a copper mine that produced some gold out of sandstone they mined. Check sites like mindat for mine/resource locations, then be sure to research mineral rights to any area you plan on digging.
Welcome to the forum!
Im out here in Pueblo which is not too far from you. However, you're only going to find baculites, other types of ammonites, Inoceramus shell fossils and petrified wood in this area plus out there in Fowler. It just gets dustier out your way.
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You can walk the Arkansas River (which runs past Fowler under the 167 bridge)
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until the confluence with Fountain Creek in Pueblo and then head North.
Most of the water is really low right now. I don't know over the past 2 weeks however as I haven't been out since. Both waterways are low enough you can zigzag back and forth in shorts and only get the bottom wet but now it is cold as hell and I would only wear waders. You can find along this route lots of petrified wood; so much of it that you can take a 50 gallon trashcan and fill it up in an 8 hour day. I have found logs larger than 6 feet in length but I had no possible way of extracting it and when I went back the next time it was gone. (Bring a sledge to at least get a chunk if you can.)
Between Fowler and Pueblo I would imagine there would be increasingly less and less stuff to find. When you travel from the confluence Northwards, you find increasing amounts of goodies. I have a few pieces of polished, tumbled Smoky Quartz and Amazonite that I have found on the Fountain Creek exclusively under this bridge near Wal-Mart:
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Right now they are doing some kind of sewer line work down that direction and are digging up a portion of the Fountain Creek South of that bridge. This is digging up goodies! It's a short jaunt but is worth it on these cold snowy days. It is effortless to walk the bank and not get wet, too.
Onward West toward Fremont -- you can go Northward toward Cripple Creek mining district on Phantom Canyon Road but after a recent flood there was a washout in the road there. You can get around it but there is a feeble attempt to block the road. Canon City -- when you get past the big turn after the Historic Prison on the Western side of Skyline Drive it starts to get mineralized. As you go outward past the Gold Mine Rock Shop:
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There is some information for you, just a little bit!
Im out here in Pueblo which is not too far from you. However, you're only going to find baculites, other types of ammonites, Inoceramus shell fossils and petrified wood in this area plus out there in Fowler. It just gets dustier out your way.
Click to view attachment
You can walk the Arkansas River (which runs past Fowler under the 167 bridge)
Click to view attachment
until the confluence with Fountain Creek in Pueblo and then head North.
Most of the water is really low right now. I don't know over the past 2 weeks however as I haven't been out since. Both waterways are low enough you can zigzag back and forth in shorts and only get the bottom wet but now it is cold as hell and I would only wear waders. You can find along this route lots of petrified wood; so much of it that you can take a 50 gallon trashcan and fill it up in an 8 hour day. I have found logs larger than 6 feet in length but I had no possible way of extracting it and when I went back the next time it was gone. (Bring a sledge to at least get a chunk if you can.)
Between Fowler and Pueblo I would imagine there would be increasingly less and less stuff to find. When you travel from the confluence Northwards, you find increasing amounts of goodies. I have a few pieces of polished, tumbled Smoky Quartz and Amazonite that I have found on the Fountain Creek exclusively under this bridge near Wal-Mart:
Click to view attachment
Right now they are doing some kind of sewer line work down that direction and are digging up a portion of the Fountain Creek South of that bridge. This is digging up goodies! It's a short jaunt but is worth it on these cold snowy days. It is effortless to walk the bank and not get wet, too.
Onward West toward Fremont -- you can go Northward toward Cripple Creek mining district on Phantom Canyon Road but after a recent flood there was a washout in the road there. You can get around it but there is a feeble attempt to block the road. Canon City -- when you get past the big turn after the Historic Prison on the Western side of Skyline Drive it starts to get mineralized. As you go outward past the Gold Mine Rock Shop:
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment
There is some information for you, just a little bit!
QUOTE (JasonPulsifer @ Dec 15 2015, 05:14 PM)
Hi my name is Jason
i just joined the club today 12/15/2015
Was wondering how long it takes to get my club card.
I need help with the area's i can prospect.
i just joined the club today 12/15/2015
Was wondering how long it takes to get my club card.
I need help with the area's i can prospect.
Welcome to the club Jason!
You should be receiving your club membership card in the mail by the end of the week. 
Make yourself at home around the website. As you can see, we have a very helpful group here so ask any other questions you may have. ~ Denise
Welcome to the forums and Club Jason! 
There isn't very many opportunities on the plains for quartz crystals or gemstones per say but there is other minerals of interest near you. In fact I tried to go down your way last weekend but the snow kept me from going (here in Denver). If the weather holds I still plan to go this Saturday. I will be looking for petroglyphs and septerian nodules that have Calcite crystals sometimes with clear and well formed Barite crystals. I have not been down there yet but have a good idea of some public lands to start the search. I may throw out an invite in the protected forums for club members.
There isn't very many opportunities on the plains for quartz crystals or gemstones per say but there is other minerals of interest near you. In fact I tried to go down your way last weekend but the snow kept me from going (here in Denver). If the weather holds I still plan to go this Saturday. I will be looking for petroglyphs and septerian nodules that have Calcite crystals sometimes with clear and well formed Barite crystals. I have not been down there yet but have a good idea of some public lands to start the search. I may throw out an invite in the protected forums for club members.
QUOTE (Auger @ Dec 16 2015, 10:28 AM)
Welcome to the forum!
Im out here in Pueblo which is not too far from you. However, you're only going to find baculites, other types of ammonites, Inoceramus shell fossils and petrified wood in this area plus out there in Fowler. It just gets dustier out your way.
Click to view attachment
You can walk the Arkansas River (which runs past Fowler under the 167 bridge)
Click to view attachment
until the confluence with Fountain Creek in Pueblo and then head North.
Most of the water is really low right now. I don't know over the past 2 weeks however as I haven't been out since. Both waterways are low enough you can zigzag back and forth in shorts and only get the bottom wet but now it is cold as hell and I would only wear waders. You can find along this route lots of petrified wood; so much of it that you can take a 50 gallon trashcan and fill it up in an 8 hour day. I have found logs larger than 6 feet in length but I had no possible way of extracting it and when I went back the next time it was gone. (Bring a sledge to at least get a chunk if you can.)
Between Fowler and Pueblo I would imagine there would be increasingly less and less stuff to find. When you travel from the confluence Northwards, you find increasing amounts of goodies. I have a few pieces of polished, tumbled Smoky Quartz and Amazonite that I have found on the Fountain Creek exclusively under this bridge near Wal-Mart:
Click to view attachment
Right now they are doing some kind of sewer line work down that direction and are digging up a portion of the Fountain Creek South of that bridge. This is digging up goodies! It's a short jaunt but is worth it on these cold snowy days. It is effortless to walk the bank and not get wet, too.
Onward West toward Fremont -- you can go Northward toward Cripple Creek mining district on Phantom Canyon Road but after a recent flood there was a washout in the road there. You can get around it but there is a feeble attempt to block the road. Canon City -- when you get past the big turn after the Historic Prison on the Western side of Skyline Drive it starts to get mineralized. As you go outward past the Gold Mine Rock Shop:
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment
There is some information for you, just a little bit!
Im out here in Pueblo which is not too far from you. However, you're only going to find baculites, other types of ammonites, Inoceramus shell fossils and petrified wood in this area plus out there in Fowler. It just gets dustier out your way.
Click to view attachment
You can walk the Arkansas River (which runs past Fowler under the 167 bridge)
Click to view attachment
until the confluence with Fountain Creek in Pueblo and then head North.
Most of the water is really low right now. I don't know over the past 2 weeks however as I haven't been out since. Both waterways are low enough you can zigzag back and forth in shorts and only get the bottom wet but now it is cold as hell and I would only wear waders. You can find along this route lots of petrified wood; so much of it that you can take a 50 gallon trashcan and fill it up in an 8 hour day. I have found logs larger than 6 feet in length but I had no possible way of extracting it and when I went back the next time it was gone. (Bring a sledge to at least get a chunk if you can.)
Between Fowler and Pueblo I would imagine there would be increasingly less and less stuff to find. When you travel from the confluence Northwards, you find increasing amounts of goodies. I have a few pieces of polished, tumbled Smoky Quartz and Amazonite that I have found on the Fountain Creek exclusively under this bridge near Wal-Mart:
Click to view attachment
Right now they are doing some kind of sewer line work down that direction and are digging up a portion of the Fountain Creek South of that bridge. This is digging up goodies! It's a short jaunt but is worth it on these cold snowy days. It is effortless to walk the bank and not get wet, too.
Onward West toward Fremont -- you can go Northward toward Cripple Creek mining district on Phantom Canyon Road but after a recent flood there was a washout in the road there. You can get around it but there is a feeble attempt to block the road. Canon City -- when you get past the big turn after the Historic Prison on the Western side of Skyline Drive it starts to get mineralized. As you go outward past the Gold Mine Rock Shop:
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment
Click to view attachment
There is some information for you, just a little bit!
Thanks for the Info i will be looking forward to digging with you guys sometime!
QUOTE (MikeS @ Dec 16 2015, 05:43 PM)
Welcome to the forums and Club Jason!
There isn't very many opportunities on the plains for quartz crystals or gemstones per say but there is other minerals of interest near you. In fact I tried to go down your way last weekend but the snow kept me from going (here in Denver). If the weather holds I still plan to go this Saturday. I will be looking for petroglyphs and septerian nodules that have Calcite crystals sometimes with clear and well formed Barite crystals. I have not been down there yet but have a good idea of some public lands to start the search. I may throw out an invite in the protected forums for club members.
There isn't very many opportunities on the plains for quartz crystals or gemstones per say but there is other minerals of interest near you. In fact I tried to go down your way last weekend but the snow kept me from going (here in Denver). If the weather holds I still plan to go this Saturday. I will be looking for petroglyphs and septerian nodules that have Calcite crystals sometimes with clear and well formed Barite crystals. I have not been down there yet but have a good idea of some public lands to start the search. I may throw out an invite in the protected forums for club members.
i would like to join you
where are you planing to go! Maybe car pool with you.
I'm getting a Van today and it need to be registersted and can't drive it here yet
here's my phone number you can reach me at 719-744-8219
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QUOTE (JasonPulsifer @ Dec 17 2015, 11:50 AM)
i would like to join you
where are you planing to go! Maybe car pool with you.
I'm getting a Van today and it need to be registersted and can't drive it here yet
here's my phone number you can reach me at
where are you planing to go! Maybe car pool with you.
I'm getting a Van today and it need to be registersted and can't drive it here yet
here's my phone number you can reach me at
I have posted an invite in the protected forums for Club Members with maps and location info.
You will need your password(e-mail) to enter the protected forums. Then look for Mike's Invites for Club Members. Page 11 for details.
I may be able to pick you up Jason. I will give you a call this evening if that's ok.
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