Why do we keep searching after everyone says the gold is gone?

[mulletator]

There's a reason some people can't walk away from worked-out ground while others have no problem moving on.
The guys who found the Bonanza bench deposits had already made good money on the creek. They kept going anyway. Not because they were greedy but because something in the landscape wasn't adding up and they had to know why.

Wrote up some thoughts on it here if anyone wants to read:

The Philosophy of Exploration

Have you ever taken a risk? It sounds like a simple question, but if you look closely it reveals something about the kind of person you are. Some people orga...

www.westcoastplacer.com

Curious whether others have had that experience, finding ground that looked worked out but wasn't.

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Excellent, great writing with wonderful insight. You've encapsulated what, I think, we ponder all the time, namely, 'where are the targets and how do we get them?'. I find myself hunting the same locations, but with newer technology, different tactics and accrued knowledge of where the targets may be. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Now they have things like Digstock, etc. that opens up previously unavailable territory. The quest goes on fueled by hopes and dreams of the possibilities. It brings to mind the guy scraping cracks in the middle of New York - where there's a will there's a way.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Gold is a magnet of human spirit and desire.

 

[Crow]

There's a reason some people can't walk away from worked-out ground while others have no problem moving on.
The guys who found the Bonanza bench deposits had already made good money on the creek. They kept going anyway. Not because they were greedy but because something in the landscape wasn't adding up and they had to know why.

Wrote up some thoughts on it here if anyone wants to read:

The Philosophy of Exploration

Have you ever taken a risk? It sounds like a simple question, but if you look closely it reveals something about the kind of person you are. Some people orga...

www.westcoastplacer.com

Curious whether others have had that experience, finding ground that looked worked out but wasn't.

There is a deeper need in us all. You see, we are hardwired to seek and explore. It's all part of human evolution in being hunter-gatherers. Hunting treasure or gold deposits is an extension of days when people hunted for food, then progressed into farming, and the need to hunt declined as they formed early collective farming communities. But the ingrained hunter in us all is in our DNA.

Crow