Magilla Gorilla...Now those are numbers I can agree with. They are not terribly far from the peaks 20 years ago. I also agree that the lure of precious metals has been the one constant thruout history, from their discovery. I don't know why, or how it started, but it's always been there; gold fever has afflicted us since forever, and the quest for it changed forever the Western Hemisphere from Alaska down to lower South America... )I wish I had seen California B4 the gold rush). It sure is pretty. (If I had been the one to set up the system, I would have chosen something a bit more utilitarian, like apples, but, I wasn't).
I know there is lot's of gold in the ground. A few years ago, on my daughter's field trip, we toured a mine in the Mother Lode. They estimate only about 7 % of Cal's gold has been extracted. In the mine, there was a 2' wide band of granite, and, in the middle of the granite, color. It runs maybe 200 miles N/S. How deep? Not even a clue.
Ag is consumed :-)
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