Gold: What Is It?

If you are interested in cool history and facts about gold, venture forth to this article. Photos aren't bad either. https://owlcation.com/stem/Top-Ten-Interesting-and-Fun-Facts-About-Gold

More News from Gold Country

You'll love this article. Talks about the new surge in interest by gold prospectors in the Sonora area.

Los Angeles Times

Riverbeds, once dry, are torrents, and California's Gold Country is living up to its ... David Villa sets up equipment to pan for gold in Eagle Creek, near ...

Gotta See These Photos of Havasu Falls, Arizona

Some of the most gorgeous photos of Havasu Falls, Arizona that I have ever seen. I am a 60 year resident and never have gone. But these photos have forced me to put the falls on my bucket list. Hope you enjoy them.
http://localadventurer.com/backpacking-havasupai/

Disgusting Sexist Chickens Cry Foul!

Did you hear the one about the roosters who were enamored with the big-breasted hen? They called her "Rotits Chicken".
https://owlcation.com/humanities/19th-Century-Gold-Prospecting-in-Arizona

Oroville Spillway Gold May Lie Untouched for Ages

Remember the recent Oroville, Ca spillway disaster? There are gold miners and prospectors up in the area who thirst to dig around it. They dream of the gold that may have been washed down from hillsides and upstream. But dream is all they can do. The work is intense up there to stabilize the spillway, and the property is restricted, anyway.

I dream about gold too. I often look at the mountains near my Arizona home and believe there must be gold in those hills. There is gold there, but the kind I can get at my be sparse. For 100 years, prospectors roamed the hills trying to find it. I have respect for them, because they had sharp eyes. To date my panning has produced nada where I live. The closest place I can go to pan and get anything is 45 miles. But looking at the beautiful geography gets me thinking of sugar plums and chestnuts, again.

The diversion pool is where these California prospectors want to dig. Though they claim that 95% of the time quartz is just quartz, I find that finding a snowy white piece sets alarms off in my head. My rule of thumb is to wave those discoveries with a metal detector. I have found that if the detector goes off and reads aluminum, steel, nickel or whatever, I take it home. I one time found a quartz piece that did that and cut it open with a tile saw. There was a thin vein of gold in it that just about set of my pacemaker.

According to one prospector, the California floods of the 1990's were a great time for panners. The locals are waiting for the waterways to dry out. They anticipate the later 2017 summer to be a wonderful time for those who know how to look for color.

In the meantime, I will dream about Arizona gold and hope for my first local panning find. That will be the day.

Photo

Oroville Dam on the Feather River in Oroville, California as seen from the air, looking east. The dam itself is on the right side of the photo, the concrete overflow spillway is in the center, and the emergency spillway is the vegetated slope on the left of the photo. Credit: Wikipedia: California Department of Water Resources - http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/facilities/Oroville/LakeDam.cfm

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What's All This About Lithium

Lithium may be the new gold. Lots of tech entrepreneurs are eyeing the mineral with the latest advances in technology and battery storage. Death Valley appears to have a large deposit. Here is some info about lithium. https://hubpages.com/education/Why-Mining-Lithium-and-Lithium-Ion-Battery-Demand-Influences-Social-and-Economic-Issues

Fast Formation of Gold Deposits on Earth

Earthquakes formed gold deposits. Such is the theory of an Australian scientist. And, gold deposits were formed in a relatively short period of time in terms of geologic history.
http://www.geologyin.com/2014/07/new-theory-suggests-gold-deposits-were.html

Treasure Hunting in Georgia

The land of Southern Appalachia is wild. And some of the wildest is in the Smokey Mountains. There are the Southern Blueridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, and then in Georgia proper:
Andersonville NHS
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Chattahoochee River National Rec Area
Chickamauga and Chattanooga Natl Military Park
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Fort Frederica NM
Fort Pulaski NM
Jimmy Carter NHS
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Martin Luther King Jr NHS
Ocmulgee NM
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
But even though spring and fall bring magnificent natural color to the forest and pastures, there is a treasure of semi-precious and precious gems, minerals, collectible rocks, and gold and diamonds!
Check out this article. https://hubpages.com/travel/North-Georgia-Treasure-Hunting

Analyzing the Area for Pay Dirt

This is an article I wrote about finding gold in the Southwest. It has been read over 25,000 times and copied just as many. If you are relatively new to the hobby of recreational prospecting, you might want to read it. If you are a pro, the photos are good and you might see something of interest.
https://owlcation.com/misc/Where-to-Find-Gold-if-You-are-a-Newbie-Gold-Prospecting-the-Best-Places-Using-Gold-Panning

Gold Hill Nevada,  before 1900 (top) and in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Hill,_Nevada

Just One More Joke

https://www.freepik.com/photos/woman

A woman walks into a store to return a pair of eyeglasses that she had purchased for her husband the week before. "What seems to be the problem, madam?"

"I'm returning these glasses I bought here for my husband. They're defective!"

"Defective?" said the optometrist?
"How could that be? I made them myself."

"That may be all well and good," she said. "But he's still not seeing things my way!"