Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

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

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 ...

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/

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

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 th...

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

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