Name A Town LEADVILLE?

I wonder if you could find anyone today to name a new town LEADVILLE? 
Not if You Wanted Anyone to Live There. Unlikely I suspect. There are many stories about Leadville. Here are some of them from the Aspen Times.

Tony Vagneur

According to The Leadville Daily/Evening Chronicle, as quoted in a chapter of "Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the American West," Leadville had "19 hotels, 41 lodging houses, 82 drinking saloons, 38 restaurants, 13 wholesale liquor houses, 147 lawyers, 12 blacksmith shops, 6 livery stables, 3 undertakers, 21 gambling houses, 4 theatres, 4 dance halls, and 35 houses of prostitution." Nicknamed Cloud City, Leadville in the 1880s had a population of around 50,000 souls — only about 2,600 today.

Read more here:  https://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/tony-vagneur-leadville-and-aspen-are-sisters-who-are-the-same-but-very-different/

They Found ‘thousands and thousands’ Of Nuggets

The guy who started the Pilbara gold rush found 'thousands and thousands' of nuggets - Stockhead:

Campbell says he and wife Zoe stumbled across Purdy’s Reward and Comet Well while chasing wild cattle.

“We were flying over the area doing a headcount for an upcoming muster and we’d seen where someone had been camping pretty well out in the middle of nowhere.

“I said ‘it looks to me as if they’d been prospecting or they’re hiding from the police’ because it was a bit suss where they were.

“I got some hired help and went out there and started looking. I think it was at Purdy’s where the guy was camped. We did our own exploration work and found that it soon stretched over about 8km.”

Thousands and thousands of nuggets

Mr Campbell said he and his crew found “thousands and thousands” of gold nuggets.

“If you turned on a metal detector you weren’t walking anywhere because there was too much gold,” he said.

“So when I found it I spent a lot of time on a four-wheel motorbike and walking and I just started to map it basically – the length and the width.

“We found nuggets up to 10 ounces size-wise, but we found thousands and thousands of 2-gram and 1.5-gram nuggets.

Is the Pilbara gold rush real? “100 per cent,” Mr Campbell says.

“Absolutely undeniably Comet Well will be something big and I’ll tell you why — and this is from a non-geologist’s point of view.

“If I can walk 8km and dig a hole in the ground and find gold, there’s 8km of gold. If I can dig 4m down and find gold, there’s 4m of gold. That’s the way I do it, my mathematics is pretty simple.”

Back to cattle

“My wife and I put a lot of our money into cattle and property. We’re looking to buy a cattle station,” Mr Campbell said.

“I’ve never had gold fever. I just don’t see the romance in gold. I see money in cattle and agriculture.”

Mr Campbell is no longer prospecting and is running the engineering department for the Town of Port Hedland to spend more time with his wife and six boys.

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Gold Prospecting With a Sluice Box

I got a chance to go see the Yankee Fork gold dredge this fall when I was working in Idaho. It was powered by two 350 horse Ingersoll-Rand, 7 cylinder diesel engines, burning 400 to 500 gallons of fuel a day. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A sluice box used in placer mining. Category:United States mining images (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The picture of the old gold dredge is there because I like it.
There is a sort of sluice box inside it.
Blame renewed interest in gold prospecting on the sluice box - Idaho Press-Tribune: Elizabeth:



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My new site is called Investment Banking Now

See the nice looking bar there?

Gold Camp, near Granite, Colorado 1954 

I saw This article regarding gold panning in California and thought some of you would be interested in it.

I Have decided to start a new site for people who are at the beginning of their career. What I mean is, people who just graduated high school and are thinking about university or college.

Personally I think that at the age of 18 or 19 you are too young to be even considering where you are going to be doing for the rest of your life, but that seems to be the norm.  My feeling is that the norm is heavily influenced by the schooling system, particularly colleges and universities.

Without all of high school graduates coming in what would the good old tenured professors do?  Sit around in their tweed jackets and smoke pipes?  I hope that it is tobacco in that pipe. What would be your guess?

I figure by the time you're 30 or so you have probably figured out what you would like to be doing for the next little while, maybe not 30 years but 1/2 that anyway.  Don't be surprised If you change your mind a couple more times. Life can be considered a career.  I think that life is just something you do because you have it.  Hopefully you'll be doing what you like to do and then you will do it well and be considered a "success". Having fun is a career. Make the most of it while you are young. It gets harder as you rack up the years.

Again, I'm not sure that you will agree with that, but it worked for me.  Do what you feel like doing, and you will do it well.  If you do it well you will be happy and I think happiness is the most important thing in life.

Anyway, I digress.  My new site is called Investment Banking Now I hope you will find time to have a look and maybe tell your friends. I need the visits and you may see something that interests you.

Thanks,   Del

Here is the gold panning article - 

Gold panning spikes in Auburn State Recreation Area rivers

Gold seekers are welcome but need to abide by park rules

By: Gus Thomson, Journal Staff Writer

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AUBURN CA - Rivers in the Auburn State Recreation Area have been getting a workout from pans and hands. Supervising Ranger Scott Liske said that he’s witnessed a spike in panning activity on the Middle Fork and North Fork of the American River in the 30,000-acre canyon park near Auburn. It’s a mini-Gold Rush that Liske said could be because of the increased price of gold or the impact of the Discovery Channel TV show “Gold Rush,” formerly known as “Gold Rush Alaska.” “I’ve never seen as many people as I have in the last six months looking for gold,” Liske said. “I haven’t heard of anyone striking it rich or finding a big nugget but it has been a good time to look, with pleasant temperatures and lower-than-normal river levels.” The Auburn State Recreation Area welcomes recreational gold seekers and has established guidelines to prevent stream bank erosion and prevent degradation of the wildland resource. And Liske also cautions that regulations for the Folsom State Recreation Area, which adjoins Auburn State Recreation Area lands south of Auburn, are different. Panners should know where the boundaries are and find out the Folsom State regulations before moving into that area, he said. “For hands and pans, it’s pretty well open year-round in the washed gravel bars,” Liske said. Metal detectors are allowed but their use comes with some restrictions, including a ban on their use in the area west of Highway 49 in El Dorado County. That area of the park is closed to the use of metal detectors. Metal detectors also may not be used in an area with historic or prehistoric resources. If any items with historic or prehistoric pasts are found, they cannot be collected or taken, according to Auburn State Recreation Area rules. Auburn’s gold-seeking supply store – Pioneer Mining Supplies – has noticed the increase in canyon panning interest. The store’s Frank Sullivan said that the local recreation area’s rivers aren’t alone as a mild winter has exposed areas of streambeds not normally available for gold searches. “The Bear River Campground (near Colfax) is extremely busy, too,” Sullivan said. “It’s a lot of rivers – the Yubas, the Feather. All are extremely low so they’re working all of them.” Sullivan said the price of gold and the popularity of TV shows showing people making good money has provided a jump in gold fever and business. “When they wrote that guy a check (on “Gold Rush”) for $70,000, for a week’s work, that really spiked interest,” Sullivan said. Liske said that regulations in Alaska, where filming for the TV show takes place, are far different from those in California because of much tougher environmental regulations designed to prevent erosion. Prospective gold seekers should make themselves aware of local regulations and determine whether the land they’re on is open to public prospecting, he said. Two men – one from Foresthill and the other from Auburn – were charged last month with felony gold dust theft after allegedly using metal detectors on land owned by a mining operation. Copies of rules and regulations for the Auburn State Recreation Area are posted on the park’s website, Liske said. Copies are also available at the recreation area office on Highway 49.

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The Hobby of Gold Panning

Image via WikipediaGold panning as a hobby.

With the price of gold over $1350 a lot more people have become interested in panning for gold as a hobby. I was in a hobby store that sort of specializes in goldpanning equipment a few days ago and they had actually run out of a certain brand of goldpan. The owner was saying he sells seven or eight a day sometimes where that used to be a month sales.
It looks like the time has come for gold panning. he was telling me that what used to be a hobby for some people is now actually earning them 40 or 50% of their income because of the high unemployment. At this moment the gold is sitting at  $1389. That's more than $50 a gram. In a good stream a person who knows where to look and easily make two or 3 g a day. That's tax-free to!
Eastern Nevada, Idaho, and Montana are all known gold states. Of course California has gold to and Eastern Oregon is exactly empty especially around the Baker city/Sumter area. Washington state has gold but there's never been a really big run. And then of course British Columbia to the north of Washington is well known as a source of gold.
Another way to make some money from the new interest in gold panning is to sell  gold panning equipment. Like the store owner that I was referring to earlier. If you  do a search for gold panning you can see there's a lot of people selling it but there's always room for one more as they say. I noticed quite a few of the people selling have affiliate links and are picking up some extra cash by people clicking and buying.
It is a known fact that the people made the most money during all the famous North American gold rushes where the merchants selling stuff whether it was food, liquor, mules and horses, and of course services. He should give some consideration to this before you go thrashing around in a creek looking for the elusive nugget.
Of course you could just open up an online trading account and bet on gold going up or down it doesn't matter you can bet either way. A lot of people use their Forex accounts for this because the Forex trading companies have started to include silver and gold in their offerings. These are highly geared accounts so little bet has the potential to make you a lot of money.
So you can see there's several ways to get in on the new 21st century gold rush. The thing you have to do is decide how you're going to participate and then take action and hopefully make some money on the hobby of gold panning.