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pipoman

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10. There are actual veins of gold in California and many of the

Reply to FreakinDJ (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 11:00 AM

Feb 2015

Original prospectors became wealthy simply picking nuggets off the ground....the land was already granted to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 before the actual start of the gold rush.

Edit, on second reading it looks like you may have been being sarcastic?

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It worked in 1849, if you want to colonize an area start a gold rush. [View all] CK_John Feb 2015 OP

Nope. It's clearly real gold. MineralMan Feb 2015 #1

troy or regular? hobbit709 Feb 2015 #4

Good point. MineralMan Feb 2015 #5

I love the California white granite gold specimens. ... pipoman Feb 2015 #7

Gold is traded in troy ounces Art_from_Ark Feb 2015 #8

that ain't no pyrite hobbit709 Feb 2015 #2

Right - and Calif's Gold Rush was faked FreakinDJ Feb 2015 #3

I'm not sure that's the argument; I think it's more that people noted that el_bryanto Feb 2015 #6

There are actual veins of gold in California and many of the pipoman Feb 2015 #10

I've panned Gold in the Seirras FreakinDJ Feb 2015 #11

Don't call it Frisco... Brother Buzz Feb 2015 #12

Well this can't worry Tibet Fearless Feb 2015 #9