Hi ladybug, thanks for the interesting reading. I'm enjoying that Steem gives you access to regular people all around the world with something interesting to say about their local place and beautiful pictures to share. As you say you are interested in precious metals... I have to ask if you find gold in them there hills? ;)
There is gold in them darn hills!! but most of it is in protected areas so it is illegal to collect it. My friend suspects he found the motherlode...in a national park so he can't get to it. We do get flour gold in the rivers that run from the mountains and a dedicated prospector can find a few ounces/ summer( in non protected area). The BC area is better for gold than Alberta. Thank you for stopping by!! The Steemit platform is great for exposure to new experiences, loving every minute of it!
I forgot there is also the tale of the lost Lemon mine in the Rocky mountain house area ( Alberta)
It's a fun challenge chasing gold, I've found only a little bit but it's taken me to some nice locations in the countryside... always hoping to find a bit more of course! Bendigo in Victoria, just a couple of hours from where I live they found a nugget of 70kg in the old times!
Whoa!! 70kg nugget awesome i wouldn't mind finding that in my pan!... the places that it takes us is the reward here too! the running joke here, we spend more to go prospecting than what we recover. I am not dedicated at all, @slivergingerman and I have found about a gram one summer and a tiny bottle's worth of mini garnets but we pan, no rigs, i get bored after a while and go search for petrified wood ,fossils and native american artifacts that may have been carried by the current. I just like being at the river.
Absolutely same here...I've certainly spent a lot more to go prospecting than I've ever found... probably 100 times more! But there's always to possibility.... so it beats golfing as a hobby for me :)