I recall reading that in the 1800s some guy in North Carolina was using a huge gold nugget as a door step.
Maybe now he can afford a prosthetic foot for all the times as he’s kicked it in the middle of the night.
Here’s a better one. Out in Nevada during the gold rush, one site wasn’t panning out too well. Conditions were primitive & rough, with a heavy thick blue mud that was everywhere and stuck to everything. Nobody was finding any gold. One fellow who had some geology background was curious about that blue mud and sent off a sample for assay.
It came back as about 85% pure silver or somesuch. He quietly bought up all the nearly worthless “gold” claims he could, cheap. It ended up being one of the richest silver mines in world history, basically an entire mountain made of silver known as the Comstock Lode.
There was a large, horse shaped meteorite in AZ, 1800’s that was being used as a blacksmith anvil. Came out of Mexico.
Yes, that led to the Reed Gold Mine and many others. North Carolina was the largest gold producer in the United States prior to the California gold rush.
TIKRIT, Iraq (Army News Service, Feb. 7, 2006) – A unique challenge for two Soldiers arose recently with the discovery of a very special doorstop in the terrain team’s work space: a 25-pound block of solid gold.
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