How to Pan for Gold in either wet or dry conditions



The process basically consists of placing the material that you want to process into your pan and shaking it in a left to right motion underwater to cause the gold, which is heavy, to work its way down toward the bottom of your pan. At the same time, the lighter materials, which are worthless, are worked up to the surface of the gold pan where they can be swept away. The process of shaking and sweeping is repeated until only the heaviest of materials are left-namely the gold and heaviest black sand.

Here is a great Gold Panning Kit to buy: http://r.ebay.com/arA3NZ


Once you are out in the field, you will notice that no two people pan gold exactly alike. After you have been at it awhile, you will develop your own little twists and shakes to accomplish the proper result.


Here follows a basic gold panning procedure to start off with which works well and is easy to learn:


STEP 1: Once you have located some gravel that you want to sample, place it in your gold pan-filling it about 3/4 of the way to the top. After you have been at it awhile, you can fill your pan to the top without losing any gold. While placing material in your pan, pick out the larger-sized rocks, so that you can get more of the smaller material and gold into the pan.


Read more: http://www.goldgold.com/gold-prospectinggold-panning-instructions.html


View the original article here

West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins – Best of Western Washington 2012



In an effort to extend their outreach beyond rare coins, gold and silver buying, and estate jewelry, West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins contacted local businesses that were selected as winners in the 2012 Best of Western Washington campaign.

Throughout the week of October 28th, Evening Magazine’s Best of Western Washington winners were announced on KING5 Television. As the winners were announced, West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins contacted the local businesses via their main social media channels (Facebook and Twitter) to congratulate them. West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins sent the winners fun, congratulatory badges through Facebook during the broadcast. West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins also sent congratulatory tweets to the winning businesses over Twitter.


These efforts have resulted in a multitude of social media interactions between West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins and local businesses. This has increased the visibility and the social media influence of West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins throughout the Puget Sound.


About West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins
Established in 1979, West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins is a family-owned business that specializes in rare coins, currency, gold, silver, and jewelry. With over 30 years of industry-leading experience as gold coin buyers, as well as sellers, our friendly and knowledgeable staff provides free and honest appraisals at our West Seattle, Bellevue, and Lynnwood locations. Stop by for a free appraisal! We’re more than happy to take a look at your coins, estate jewelry, and scrap gold and silver. http://www.wscbrc.com


For any media enquiries, contact Crown Social Agency.


Claire Herting
Crown Social™ Agency
117 West Denny Way Ste. 214
Seattle, WA 98119
(206) 436-6433


View the original article here

The parallels between love and gold from The Real Asset Company



The usual options are easy – card, flowers, dinner and chocolates. But what do they really say about your thoughts on love and are they even worth the cash?

Love, like gold is becoming increasingly expensive but also like gold, the value (and its importance) remain the same. They are both everlasting and have survived millennia, held in the highest regard by all civilizations.


Americans will spend over $17.6 billion on their Valentines this year, an average of $126 per person, so gold investment business The Real Asset Company asks if all that money on flowers and candy is really the right way to show the meaning of love. What better way to show your love for someone with something shiny, precious and timeless?


Read more on our website about why gold bullion and love go hand in hand on Valentine’s Day.  http://therealasset.co.uk/love-gold-value/


About The Real Asset Company


The Real Asset Company is an open market place for individuals to buy gold bullion online, in LBMA approved vaults in London, Geneva and Singapore. Gold bullion is allocated into your name at the point of sale, meaning the gold instantly becomes your legal property. If you own more than 1kg of gold, we can even help you open a personal vault account in your name. Contact us for more details.


By facilitating the exchange of ownership of physical assets The Real Asset Company is not regulated by the FSA, but by the usual three pillars of English Law:


The investigating authority is the Metropolitan Police Force.
The prosecuting authority is the UK Crown Prosecution Service which assesses evidence provided by the investigating authority.
The Criminal Courts of the UK hear the case of the prosecuting authority.


View the original article here

Balance Interactive Wins Gold MarCom Award for MAPI



Balance Interactive was awarded a Gold MarCom Award for their work on the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) website redesign. The award winning website can be found at www.mapi.net (http://www.mapi.net). The website was entered into the Website Redesign/Content Strategy category for Associations for the work done to help MAPI make their vast amounts of content for their councils easy to find and navigate.

MarCom Awards is an international creative competition for any individual or company involved in the concept, writing, and design of print, visual, audio and web materials, and programs. There are about 6,000 entries per year from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies, and freelancers.


More details about the MarCom Awards and the full list of winners can be found at http://www.marcomawards.com/  


Located in Springfield, Virginia, Balance Interactive is a full-service web development and design firm. The company helps trade associations, corporations, and government agencies strategically use online technology to better communicate with customers. Balance Interactive is a Small Business Administration (SBA) certified woman-owned business and WBENC certified. The company is also registered with Virginia’s Procurement Portal (eVA) and the Ariba Commerce Service Network. The company’s website is www.balanceinteractive.com.


For more information contact Valerie Klemencic at Balance Interactive, 703-451-8675.


View the original article here

SGI Traders Gold Update With Spencer Kelly At Strategic Global Investments In Chicago



There was some major movement last week in gold prices based upon a combination of news from Draghi at the ECB about what could prove to be an almost unlimited bond buying program designed to preserve the euro along with expected stimulus plans from the fed.

There is widespread thought amongst commodity traders that the yellow metal is poised for more positive activity in the coming weeks after closing out a third consecutive week of gains.


Spencer Kelly, MD of Trading at Strategic Global Investments in Chicago believes that the sky is the limit - "It's clear to me that the Fed simply have to announce another stimulus plan and this will drive gold prices higher not to mention lowering the value of the U.S. dollar."


He goes on to say "Wednesday and Thursday of this week will see another meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee and it is highly likely that Ben Bernanke will announce more quantitative easing especially in light of the August jobs report which was lower than expected. This could drive gold prices past $1800 and that means there are still big profits to be made."


Spencer Kelly has been trading commodity options  for over two decades and is well known for both his succesful trading record and his writing on trading commodity options for profit.


Strategic Global Investments is at the forefront of commodity and forex trading and provides trading services and advice to clients in over 70 countries from our head office in Chicago. Our offshore division is based in San Jose, Costa Rica. Visit http://www.sgitraders.com/ for more information or to open a trading account.


Disclosure: Both Spencer Kelly and Strategic Global Investments are long on various Gold options.


View the original article here

Stock Fantasy Game and Peru Mining Company to Give Away Gold Bullion!



Co-founder Neil Currie created www.stockpools.com as a way to get regular people interested and educated in the stock market. It's a fun, safe and risk free environment where players build fantasy stock portfolios yet win real money. And after two short years the website is showing a lot of success.

"In the last year we have managed to double the numbers of users and now have almost 5 thousand people fantasy trading in Stockpools," says Currie. "Within the next two years we hope to have 50 thousand people having fun and winning money...we are extremely happy with the growth of the website."


The virtual trading site gave away nearly 70 thousand dollars in weekly prizes in the past year; money generated from the companies profiled on Currie's website.


"Our latest promotion is in partnership with Inca One, a Peru based gold mining company," adds Currie. "They are putting up 3.5 ounces of gold, valued at nearly 6 thousand dollars, for the top three portfolios in the pool."


"The Inca One Pool is really a celebration of the many investment opportunities that exist in Peru right now," says Edward Kelly, President & CEO of Inca One Resources. "We're hoping this contest is a fun, interactive way to help raise awareness for Peru mining companies."


The pool deadline is on 6AM Friday March 15th.


There is no cost to the player to take part in the fantasy trading which means no risk; you simply sign up and play, much like a fantasy sports pool. Players compete against each other to try and pick the best performing companies and build the most valuable fantasy portfolio. The benefit is players educate themselves on the market and have the chance to win real prizes.
Stockpools.com is an easy online platform that gives any users free reign to create a custom pool consisting of publicly traded companies in North America, and compete against friends, family and colleagues while doing so.


Neil Currie is a young entrepreneur focused on development in the small/mid cap stock market and online. Currie was forced to transition into a new career path several years ago after being seriously injured in a construction accident. In 2006 he was hired by a local junior mining company as their investor relations specialist. He left to help create VantageWire.com, a free real-time stock quote website, and since has gone onto found Stockpools.com and Capital Event Management.


Contact Information


Stockpools Inc.
Neil Currie
President & CEO
604 684 2444 or Toll Free: 1 855 684 2444
Mobile: 604 561 8196
www.stockpools.com


Cannon Fire Media
Evan Kelly
604-505-2307
evan@cannonfiremedia.com
www.cannonfiremedia.com


View the original article here