Walking Over GOLD!

[bigscoop]

All the hikes, beach strolls, river wading, swimming, aimless roamings, etc. Ever wonder how much gold you've walked over in your lifetime?

 

[Xiao en]

Im thinking somewhere along the lines of stars in the sky. Once you start MD you realize there is alot of stuff out there burried in the ground just 3-8 inches deep. I cant imagine what all is out there even deeper.

 

[onfire]

I once saw a movie about a little girl and a small puppy walking over a ton of it. She had some weird friends too.

 

[Dave44]

Twasn't her fault! They just looked like bricks !

 

[spartacus53]

Nope, I have a sincere fondness for pull tabs and think about them all the time

 

[Marchas45]

After doing a little research I just found out that my 42 acres homestead is in an area of highly mineralized ground. Some people have lots of zinc, copper and silver that live above me. The lake above me is supposedly an old volcano so I'm in the old flows path. Can't wait for summer to check my river beds and see what's there. Yep a river runs through my property also.

 

[Cappy Z.]

After doing a little research I just found out that my 42 acres homestead is in an area of highly mineralized ground. Some people have lots of zinc, copper and silver that live above me. The lake above me is supposedly an old volcano so I'm in the old flows path. Can't wait for summer to check my river beds and see what's there. Yep a river runs through my property also.

Great! So what day this year is the big TN Festival and what should be bring?

 

[Michigan Badger]

As for man formed gold items, probably thousands.

Years ago I discovered that many gold items detect like U.S. nickel coins and some like trash metal. Most fine gold chain just doesn't detect...period (unless it's within a couple inches of the surface).

Quality gold finds are extremely scarce. I used to hunt underwater at large swinging beaches back in the 60's to about mid 80's and I sometimes dug a foot or more deep for a junk ring or piece of low grade gold jewelry. Quality gold just wasn't lost all that often. It happened, yes, but was one in 10,000. One has at least a 10,000 times better chance of finding quality gold today in one of those unpaid storage auctions than with a metal detector (but it sometimes does happen).

The top places for lost buried REAL gold coins and REAL gold jewelry today would be certain places off limits for hunting. Places in large cities where once stood brothels, hotels, gambling joints, etc., but now are paved or just plain unsafe to hunt.

Anytime one walks through a large modernized city with hundreds of years of very active history, one is walking over more gold than one would believe.

People a 1000 years from now will be digging gold we missed.