Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

 The Las Vegas RV Resort advertises gold panning areas in Clark County, Nevada and Mojave County, Arizona. The shortest distance from Las Vegas to a town in Arizona with a gold bearing history is about 72 miles to Whitehills, Arizona. It is a gold mining area located about 35 miles North of Mineral Park in the southern portion of the White Hills, northern portion of Mohave County. The mineralization is contained in large, gold-bearing quartz dikes. Whether the area is accessible to the amateur prospector is not clear. See https://www.mindat.org/loc-31140.html Near the historic mining town of Nelson, about 44 miles southeast of Las Vegas on U.S. Highway 95, placer gold can be found. The El Dorado district in the Opal Mountains has produced gold since the mid-1850s in lode and placer deposits. In addition, small amounts of placer gold have been found in and around the El Dorado Canyon. Placer gold has also been discovered in bars south of El Dorado Canyon along the Colorado River....

Why did the miner build a castle for his pile of gold? Because it's a noble metal.

Did you hear the one about the English farm hand who dug up Roman gold and treasure? It happened. On November 16, 1992, 1 1/2 miles southwest of Hoxne in Suffolk, England the largest Roman hoard of gold was discovered. On this fall day, Peter Whatling was perhaps knocking mud from the tires of a tractor or trying to bend a piece of a plow with his hammer. Somehow he dropped it, misplaced it, forgot about it, or whatever. When he realized that his hammer was missing, he asked Eric Lawes, a friend, to help him look for it. Eric was a metal detectorist, and he agreed to help. Hoxne is a village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about five miles (8 km) east-southeast of Diss, Norfolk and 1⁄2 mile (800 m) south of the River Waveney. The parish is irregularly shaped, covering the villages of Hoxne, Cross Street and Heckfield Green. The two detectives were searching for a hammer, at most a $12 to $35 item at your local hardware store. Friend Lawes must have been happy to have f...

 Why was the dwarf's mining company so successful? Because his overhead was so low.

There are reportedly a number of buried treasures in the great state of Texas. Here are a few of  the tales about the lost or stolen riches. 1. Burnet County - Using Longhorn Caverns as a hideaway, Sam Bass is said to have shrouded out of sight the loot from robberies. Sam Bass robbed trains and stagecoaches in 1878. His legend has grown over time. Bass tried working as a freighter, but could not make a living at it, so he formed an outlaw gang preying on stage coaches. The gang literally struck gold when they robbed the Union Pacific Railroad gold train from  S an Francisco on September 18, 1877. They intercepted the train at Big Springs, Nebraska.  The robbery netted the gang over $60,000, and they split up. Bass promptly headed back to Texas and formed a new gang responsible for a string of stagecoach  robberies.  In 1878, the gang held up two s tagecoaches  and four trains within 25 miles (40 km) of Dal...

 Is gold going up, is it going down? What's the story? I am in the same boat. I, frankly, don't know! But, I can refer you to this article to perhaps give some clarity. I sympathize with those who want to prospect for gold flake, but you probably ask yourself, should I pay the club fees? The key question is, "What will remain a store of value?" Man, what a question. I share in your confusion. Read this article.  https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/top-gold-miners-book-higher-all-in-sustaining-costs-in-q2-20-60328113

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July 2015 -  GPS technology helped a Florida family find gold. No doubt they were able to set up a very thorough search grid to carefully comb the waters with a history of sunken Spanish galleons. They were searching off of Fort Pierce, Florida. The family grabbed up 60 gold artifacts worth half a million dollars. One of their most precious objects was a Tricentennial royal coin from 1715 - the same year the ship was wrecked. The workers usually spend their time at about 1000 feet off shore. Prop washers are used to blow debris away from the ocean floor.  At a depth of 10 to 15 feet, the prop moves about 5 to 10 feet of sand and silt. How does the prop washer work? Metal tubes are put over the blades of the propellers which directs the force of the wash down instead of out. Pretty cool idea! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/300-year-old-treasure-gold-found-schmitt-family-off-coast-florida/   September 2013 - In another discovery, the same family uncovered $300,000 worth of go...