Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

It was the Romans  who developed large scale mining methods, especially the use of large volumes of water brought to the mine head by numerous  aqueducts. The water was used for a variety of purposes, including removing overburden and rock debris, called hydraulic mining , as well as washing comminuted , or crushed, ores and driving simple machinery. Read about a number of tools the ancients used in mining in Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Egypt. See how modern mining techniques evolved. https://hubpages.com/education/Ancient-Mining-Tools-and-Techniques Lead mining in the upper Mississippi River  region of the U.S., 1865.

Would you like to know what stuff was costing a prospector during the gold rush. Get a list of 13 needed goods in 1848 California? http://ports.parks.ca.gov/pages/22922/files/worksheet-goldrushprices.pdf Investigate the elasticity of wages in gold rush California. http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11514.pdf

Want 70 ideas about locations for metal detecting? This article is very comprehensive. I have chosen many of these spots, but I must confess, I have missed about half of them. From the URL below, here is a quote. " A good site for metal detecting is an area that has been utilized by a few people over a long period of time, or an area that has been utilized by thousands over a brief period of time." I highly recommend this read. metal detecting locations

" Relying heavily on a 1717 map of the wreck site – a true "pirate treasure map", Barry Clifford found  Whydah 's wreck in 1984 ... a discovery of unprecedented proportions.  As Clifford describes in this National Geographic video, more than 200,000 artifacts have been retrieved including the ship's bell, inscribed with the words "THE WHYDAH GALLY 1716".  https://wizzley.com/treasure-how-the-treasure-from-the-pirate-ship-whyday-was-found/ It is definitely worth the time - see the video.

Photo by  bennett tobias  on  Unsplash A helpful article to seniors who want to start a walking program. https://caloriebee.com/workout-routines/Walking-In-Your-Sixties-for-Good-Health

Though I am not a coin collector, I enjoy looking at facets of the gold industry that may offer the opportunity for profit. Collectibles can afford the opportunity for profit. Here is an article about Disney coins that I found interesting. https://wizzley.com/new-and-old-disney-coins/                                                 Disney Opening 1955 - Wikipedia

The Silver King Mine traces its beginning to 1870, during the Apache Wars General George Stoneman, desiring an easier access route to Apache strongholds, had ordered the construction of a road from  C amp Picket Post into the  P inal Mountains. [ The road became known as the Stoneman Grade. A soldier named Sullivan, who was assigned to the construction, discovered some heavy black rocks that flattened when struck. Interested in the rock, he collected several samples but did not mention this to his fellow soldiers.After completing his term of service, Sullivan went to work on a ranch owned by Charles Mason. Sullivan routinely showed off the rocks, known as "nugget silver" to prospectors of the region, but never divulged the location of the discovery. After a time, Sullivan disappeared and was assumed to have been killed by Apache.   Mason, joining with Benjamin W. Regan, William H. Long, Isaac Copeland, and another companion went searching for the location o...