Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

 Read my latest article on Discover Hubpages.   https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Important-Inexpensive-Basic-Tools-for-Gold-Prospecting

 Silver walks up to gold in a bar and says, "AU, get outta here." free photo at dreamstime

 For the Incas, the sun was sacred. Their religion was a sun cult. Gold was believed to be the sweat of the sun. The ancestors of the Inca had worked gold for along time.Modern day Peruvians were working gold like their ancestors since 1000 A.D. (first to 10th centuries). Objects containing several kilograms of gold with their gold riches of huge proportions. "These indigenous people were master goldsmiths. They used to blow pipes to fan the flames in their simple ovens so they could smelt this precious metal. For Inca gold was also the blood of Viracocha, their sun god. He is now commonly considered the chief god, at least in pre-Incan cultures. Gold was sacred. It was greatly prized in cult, but had no material value. The craft of working gold was a religious ritual." - Britannica Inca temples were decorated with gold. Worship areas were gilded inside and out. Only the king was permitted to use gold jewelry - proof that he was of godly birth. The only way nobility could use...

 Please check out my latest article about gold. I chose to share an experience my wife and I had because of the present day interest in synchronicity. Though I don't particularly have any belief in fate, I do find it curious how at rare moments the stars seem to align. Such an alignment occurred when I forgot hamburger chips on my wife's sandwich. The sandwich was to be her lunch at a gold claim; lack of pickles did not make for a golden moment. Or did it? https://discover.hubp ages.com/education/Remarkable-Hamburger-Pickles-Lead-to-Flood-Gold

 The hard rock mines of Nevada County, CA, probably the most gold over all came from hard rock   mines in Nevada County Ca. These mines were pretty much started after the '49ers.  If you have a lot of money, you can get gold by mining. The use of digging machines, drilling   machines, and loading machines costs. Then there is the cost of claims, employees, lawyers, permits, etc which preclude the lightly financed. Hard rock mining is pretty well left to those who are well-healed. One can prospect in hopes of finding an outcropping of gold and quartz, but again, it's pretty much the rare bird who comes across such a thing. If you do, start buying an occasional lottery ticket. It is surmised by most academics that the entire west (California, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon) has been scanned by prospectors over the course of the last couple hundred years.  The aspect of prospecting that gets the most attention these days is the effort put out by placer prosp...