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>>57871428
You can find gold everywhere, but usually not in worthwhile quantities. Anywhere scoured by glaciers should have at least a little flour gold, I found this in a creek in central Illinois and know that occasional strikes of auriferous glacial black sands have been mined in Iowa and around the Great Lakes. There's a cool YT channel called Flour Gold Wizards showing a guy who has fun panning and sluicing/high banking around Lake Michigan IIRC.

>>56515732
>So the cubic stuff you're seeing is shattered quartz with copper stain and tiny silver crystals all around and through it. This is another reason I don't think it traveled far- the granite in the nugget is only found low on the road

OK I think I see it now thanks for recalibrating my eye, that nug is primo!

>>56515732
>Applied lips are not common in my area and I've never seen another torpedo.

Oletimer local digger/collectors would know whether or not those torpedoes held a product consumed regularly in town, but if you've never seen others that's a promising sign. I'd look harder for another rubbish dump area but if the big cabin was in fact only used for a short time that would support the abrupt disappearance aspect of the story, have you dug in the footprint of the cabin to see if it was burned down or to glean other clues?
>found about 20 pounds of smelted silver that had spilled or splashed and then got swept out with the garbage.
Damn that's interesting indeed, was the silver from just 1 little area or single wagonload or did you find splatters all throughout the dump? Mostly smaller bits or did you find some big splats too? You probably have better things to do but I'd be dry-panning trying to collect even the smallest stuff, the prospect of free silver is quite motivating.
Copper nugget is a 9.6oz piece of glacial float dragged down from Michigan which I found in an Illinois creek, due to the brilliant green color I thought it was melted plastic but after digging it out the density proved otherwise. I panned some fine glacial gold from that same creek last year, so now it's time to find some silver there!
>>56515791
Saved, much appreciated Bob
>>56515821
Wow thank you very much for the offer, it would be a huge blessing and joy to meet you and do some hunting, anything special found like tokens or bottles you need would of course be yours. I'm 99% sure I came across you while browsing ebay items before so I'll send you a message sometime!

>>51700652
>>51700899
Thanks anons

>>51700728
>Only thing is that the owner wants $44 each but I try to buy as close to bullion value as possible so I regard ano 1oz rounds over about $35 Australian as wasting money.

Sounds like you have your head on straight, one should never FOMO into overpriced bullion and numismatics, there are always good deals floating around so waiting and watching patiently for PMs priced under market value is all I do. If you're near any of the gold districts maybe you can try metal detecting for nuggies too, the richness of the Australian gold fields and gargantuan size of the best of your nuggets are legendary. The dude took down the video but there was an amateur prospector who was an engineer as his day job that detected for gold as a hobby and kept everything he found over a decade which he covered his kitchen table with for the video. Literally over 20 kilos of gold he found part-time, that's simply impossible anywhere but Australia. Wearing a mosquito net and braving the clouds of bloodsucking insectoid jews is but a small inconvenience when kilos of gold are waiting.

>>50397371
>At most ill get glacial flakes or whatever

I successfully panned some smol glacial gold in Central Illinois so I'm sure you can find some in Iowa. I remember reading an old report that someone in Iowa, maybe around the year 1900, found a thick sandbar of black sands in a tributary of the Mississippi River and profitably mined it for glacial gold. Definitely worth checking out fren.

>>50278502
>tfw I live in Illinois

There is lots of fine gold in the black sands on the shores of the great lakes (check out flour gold wizards on YouTube) and I panned a little (pic related) in Central Illinois. Gold is literally everywhere fren.

>>50124956
Any tasty pickers today Panchad?

>>49817417
>Gold isn’t easier to mine or refine than silver. What the fuck are you talking about?

Certainly not cheaper ounce for ounce, but I think the point was it's technically and logistically easier for some pleb with a shovel and pan to get raw native metallic gold than it is for someone to get raw native silver