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Now since coming back from the Yukon and Alaska I've been obsessing a bit about going prospecting.
The Spell of the Yukon, as it were.
And I do my research, going through google maps and making my plans for a spring departure from the restaurant. It's untenable, these 50 and 60 hour weeks, and it's not even Christmas yet. Things will only get worse. But I have a plan and am doing my research.
There's loads on the net to inspire one, like these Nevada and California gold nuggets, and the third largest gold nugget in the world found in Australia.
Look at the map. It's huge. And there's no way they've even begun to explore it all.
From watching the YouTube videos, Australia is where it's at - a relatively flat desert, easy pickings with a metal detector. Gold Porn, as it were. Note the results - 2 weeks (probably lucky weeks, but there's always the possibility of skill) yielding 34 Ounces of Gold. And when you're not finding gold you're picking up meteorites and opals.
Mind you, I'll start in BC, work my way north come April and prospect the whole way, there's certainly good pickings to be had, not the easy geography or climate but if gold holds it's price it's as good a place to start as any....
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What pains me is the countless items of similar appearance I myself have overlooked at garage sales and thrift shops.
The items, in this instance, consist of 5 16th & 17th Century carved cups out of rhinoceros horn, worth together between 1 and 1 and a half million dollars.
Link: 'Antiques Roadshow': Most Valuable Find Ever (Video), Item at Antiques Roadshow Breaks Appraisal Record (text), Google Image Search for Carved Rhinoceros Horn
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A pair of hobbyists using metal detectors uncover a hoard of torques and gold in North Yorkshire believed to be from the hoard of Queen Cartimandua.
So far the value approaches $1,000,000 dollars, but the amateur archeologists believe that there's a lot more yet to be recovered...
Read More Here: Torque of the Town
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From the BBC:
A French couple have found a hoard of gold coins worth at least 100,000 euros (£89,000; $140,000) in the cellar of their home in the town of Millau.They were working on their drains when they dug up the 34 coins in a little clay pot, French media said.
Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14080228
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And this, if you trust the Daily Mail - a painting that once sold for a mere forty five pounds at auction has been authenticated as a work by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Read More Here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010309/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Is-long-lost-120m-Salvator-Mundi-painting-authentic.html#ixzz1RI7sp05Z