The easy gold has been found. The hard stuff is way, way down.
The show on TV shows the work to get 1,000 ounces. And that is just sifting dirt.
When I moved to Colorado many years ago, I picked up a book on Colorado ghost towns. It had a brief history of each location, along with topographical maps and descriptions of the condition of the sites today. Some of the stories told of the first prospectors to arrive in the area finding “free gold” in the form of nuggets that they could just pick up off the ground. Of course, some of those stories were possibly exaggerations told to lure people to the area, but I don’t doubt that others were true.
Deep in my heart I still know that somewhere in deep Siberia, there is still a mountain stream that has never seen by human eyes. Nuggets the size of golf balls lay right there for the taking.