CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST GOLD NUGGET
When looking for gold in California. there's always a chance of finding something unexpected. You may find it in different ways - tiny specs in the pan can be your Eureka moment or be impressed by a huge nugget displayed at a Casino or museum. Either way -- it's always exciting to see it.
Cat Ivan's dad at least wanted to unearth the legend of California's Largest Nugget - and set out to find it. Follow me on this short journey and BE IMPRESSED!
Cat Ivan is proud of his daddy to have finally found CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST NUGGET. ;-) --even if it is ONLY A REPLICA of the original!
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Paradise celebrates annual festival, moving forward from Camp Fire destruction
Nearly six months after California's most deadly and destructive wildfire tore through Paradise, new beginnings are starting to grow from the ashes. This Saturday marks the start of the 2019 Gold Nugget Days. The theme is “Moving Forward.” The annual festival celebrates the discovery of a 54-pound gold nugget found just north of Paradise in 1859. Get the full story in the video above.
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4th-generation Paradise resident mourns fire loss
(16 Nov 2018) More than 170 years ago, Paradise, California was born.
From the start, it was enriched with gold mined from nearby hills and lumber harvested from the forests.
Over generations, thousands lived and loved here; they built homes and businesses, schools and hospitals, parks and museums that proudly honored Paradise’s place in American history.
In a matter of hours last week, it all disappeared.
Most homes, hundreds of shops and other buildings.
This town of 27,000 literally went up in smoke in the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in California history.
The death toll, for now, is 58, but hundreds are missing.
And memories are all that’s left for many of the survivors.
Driving past the smoldering ruins of downtown, Patrick Knuthson, a 49-year-old, fourth-generation local, struggled to make sense of what he was seeing.
He pointed out places that once were, and were no more: a saloon-style pub, his favorite Mexican restaurant, a classic California motel, the pawn shop, a real estate office, a liquor store, the thrift center and auto repair shop, the remodeled Jack in the Box burger outlet, entire trailer parks.
At the ruined Gold Nugget Museum, the ground was crunchy and hot, a few birds chirped nearby, and a half dozen soot-covered deer stood eerily still under a blackened tree.
Paradise was a town where families put down roots, and visitors opted to stay.
Like all places, Paradise had problems. There were issues with addiction and poverty, but residents felt safe. And while prices were rising, it was still affordable for many in a state where housing costs have soared.
At 2,500 feet, on a ridge that rises above deep canyons carved by the Feather River and Butte Creek, Paradise offers cool respite from hot, dry weather in the valleys below.
Now, crews search for live power lines and gas leaks. Rescue teams continue to pull human remains from cars and homes.
Fire crews tamp out smoking piles, and a heavy layer of gray-brown haze hangs over the town.
The toxic, smoky air is a visceral reminder of what’s missing in this place where the skies were so blue by day, and dark by night.
Knuthson said visitors always were amazed by the glittering stars and the meteor showers, brilliant streaks of light that shot across the summer skies.
“We used to tell people all the time, ‘We made sure to turn all of them on for you,’” he said. “It’s going to take a long time to get that back.”
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Ponderosa Gardens Motel, Paradise Hotels - California
Ponderosa Gardens Motel 3 Stars Paradise, California Within US Travel Directory Featuring an outdoor pool and hot tub, this Paradise motel serves a daily continental breakfast. Free Wi-Fi access is available. Gold Nugget Museum is 2.6 km away.
A cable TV is provided in each air-conditioned room at this motel. The dining area also has a refrigerator and a coffee machine. Featuring a hairdryer, private bathrooms also come with free toiletries and towels. Select rooms and suites feature pool or garden views.
A gift shop, a snack bar and vending machines featuring drinks are offered to guests of Motel Ponderosa Gardens. Picnic grounds with BBQ pits are available. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including cycling.
Butte College is 16.9 km away from this motel. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park is 25.3 km away. The property offers free guest parking.
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Ponderosa Gardens Motel, 7010 Skyway Road CA 95969, USA
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Feb 25 2017 Gold Panning Metal detecting East Hampton CT Garrett AT Pro
The snow is melting and almost gone. So with no detecting I wanted to do some gold panning and this is the result. There is nothing like gold in the hole or in the pan. Ended up with .9 grams or .03 troy ounce. Enjoy and please like and subscribe.
Pine Mountain Gold Museum (forgotten Gold Rush)
Here is a Video at Pine Mountain Gold Museum in Villa Rica GA. The Pine Mountain Gold Museum at Stockmar Park is a unique historical site with a museum, actual mining sites, nature trails, and gold panning all at one location.
Ponderosa Gardens Motel in Paradise CA
Website: . . .. .. ... . .. .. ... . .. .. .. Ponderosa Gardens Motel 7010 Skyway Road Paradise CA 95969 Featuring an outdoor pool and hot tub, this Paradise motel serves a daily continental breakfast. Free Wi-Fi access is available. Gold Nugget Museum is 1.6 miles away. A cable TV is provided in each air-conditioned room at this motel. The dining area also has a refrigerator and a coffee machine. Featuring a hairdryer, private bathrooms also come with free toiletries and towels. Select rooms and suites feature pool or garden views. A gift shop, a snack bar and vending machines featuring drinks are offered to guests of Motel Ponderosa Gardens. Picnic grounds with BBQ pits are available. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including cycling. Butte College is 10.5 miles away from this motel. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park is 15.7 miles away. The property offers free guest parking.
Lucky Discoveries That Made People Rich
From the largest opal in the world, to rare viking treasure hoards, here are lucky discoveries that made people rich!
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5. Lost Pollack Painting
Sometimes you might knowingly have something in your house that you just don’t know is worth a lot of money This was the case for a man living in Scottsdale Arizona who had a college of modern art painting that he just found to be intriguing. He called over some experts to take a look at one of his signed laker posters which was only worth about 300 bucks but the experts noticed something else in the garage that caught their eye! They noticed the series of smears consistent with a modern artist consistent with Jackson Pollock. This American painter is considered a major figure in abstract expressionism and his paintings are worth big bucks! The painting heavily damaged but even then, still worth some serious cash. The had it authenticated by an another expert who closely examined the painting and claimed it was indeed authentic and could sell for anything from 10 million to 15 million dollars!
4. Boulder Matrix Opal
It seems like digging around in Australia could certainly pay off. The world’s largest opal matrix was discovered in Queensland Australia in 2011 and this amazing stone has 55,000 carats! That’s about 25 points of pure opal! The previous largest opal ever discovered only was 6,100 carats. This mammoth find took place in the dry outback which receives very little rainfall. It measured in at about 10 inches in length and is valued at 1 million dollars!
3. Jersey Iron Age Coins
A great deal of coins were found on the Island of Jersey in 2012 and it may shock you This island in the English Channel that contains a great deal of French and English culture but also contained a massive treasure. After searching for this treasure for 30 years, two amateur treasure hunters found these coins that date back to Iron Age. But no, these weren’t made of iron but silver and was the largest haul of celtic coins to have ever been found. Each coin you see in this person’s hand was found on the island of Jersey is worth at least 200 pounds each, and you can tell they’re still in great condition. This makes the total discovery worth 10 million pounds or 12 million US dollars. They were found under 3 feet of soil under a hedge in someone’s farm. The coins were packed in a clay chest and literally weighed a ton! It’s believed that it was stashed here to keep the Romans from plundering it during their conquest of the British Isles.
2. Sutter’s Mill Gold Discovery
Now for a little bit of history. Sometimes when you discover something, you might make other people rich but not necessarily yourself and this was the case for John Sutter. This guy had some bad luck. James Marshall who worked at Sutter’s Mill discovered a massive golden nugget and told his boss John Sutter about it. The two decided to keep it a secret for a while but hired some men to help them pan out the gold. We’ll it turns out that all the miners they hired were a bunch of no good thieves and they stole basically all the gold they came across. The miners basically told everyone that there was gold in them there hills and this is what brought millions of people seeking fast riches! Fortune seekers from all over the world like from China, Germany, Mexico, Ireland Turkey and of course the easter united states, moved to California during this period After all his employees cheated him and took off with gold found on his land, the gold ran out and he was left basically penniless. He decided to give up on the california dream and moved as far away as possible. California officially became a state in 1850, partially thanks to there being gold here. If this moment in history never happened, the western united states would most likely be much less developed and less rich. Now you know why california is called the “Golden State”.1. The Whydah Discovery
The Whydah was a British slave ship that was originally captured by “Black Sam” and was found off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts in 1984 by Barry Clifford. He actually credits a pirate treasure map that many discredited as being false. It seems to be the holy grail of pirate discoveries! Priceless artifacts were discovered including 200,000 individual pieces were received under only 14 feet of water. Rare gold and silver coins, gold jewelry and artifacts, cannons, sword handles and even a boy’s leg! The boat is believed to carry the plunder of 10 ships. Spanish Galleons were relentless looted by Black Sam until him and his crew were swept away by a strong storm in 1717. Divers pulled together huge clumps of gold coin masses that stuck together from years of being underwater. A museum exhibition called “Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah, from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship”, toured the United States.
El Dorado County CA Mineral and Gem Society Show 2017 Pt. 1
Annual Show in Placerville CA for rock and gem enthusiasts takes place at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds.
Cherokee Mine of Butte County
This beautiful piece of landscape is part of the Cherokee mining operation that occurred around the 1860s. It is the only diamond mine in California, and the site where the first diamond was found in California. The mine was discovered in 1852 by pioneers being led there by Indians! Fast forward to the 1870s and Cherokee was famous for being the largest hydraulic mine in the U.S. mining both gold, and diamonds. Over 50 million dollars of gold made its way out of these mountains during 1852 to around 1890 when mining stopped. California put in laws to stop all hydraulic mining around 1890 due to concerns over the environment. Once even the president Rutherford Hayes even stopped by to visit the mines in 1880, that’s how big an operation it was! The local township really was one of the famous gold rush boom towns of California at its peak boasting a population of thousands. Now when I went there, the only thing remaining was a museum that’s only open 2 days a year, and the boarded up historic post office, so it’s pretty desolate now. While the people have departed the beautiful landscape remains for us to discover. I hope you enjoy the sight of these once prosperous mines.
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law dawgs and pistoleros foil a claim jumpin 2010
Gold Nugget Days in Paradise, Ca. wouldn't be the same without a claim jump reenactment! Performed by the Law Dawgs and Pistoleros of the Olde West on the Gold Nugget Museum grounds
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The annual Irish Days Festival and Parade plus the IronStone Vineyards have a few hundred thousand Daffodils in bloom, a daffodil show, and a wine tour plus tasting.
Then there is an interesting museum of the gold country. The giant nugget was taken out of the Jamestown area. Its pretty special too.
'There's gold in them, thar hills' ' Dahlonega's gold mines
You can actually go into the mines and find gold.
A weekend in Morro Bay, Ca.
There are a lot of things to do in Morro Bay. This video shows some of the fun things to do there. We also spent some time with our cousins.
Riverside (CA's) Beloved (and Famous) Wild Donkeys
Fire By Numbers (Code '88'): 2016 Fort McMurray Beltane Beast Fire vs 2018 Paradise Lost Campfire
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This upcoming Wednesday night (12/12/18) I will be Premiering my new video for a live chat session talking about the polarizing figure and UFOlogist David Wilcock and his recent revelation that he feels that at least 500 Alpha Centaurian Aliens were targeted for slaughter during the Paradise Wildfires and it was a Satanic ritual slaughter to coincide with the Thousand Oaks Bar and Grill Shooting and immediate wildfire that followed the mass shooting. Let's break it down together and I hope to see you in the livestream chat.
In the meantime this video is a preliminary introduction that will lead into the video. The title is self-explanatory as I link similar numbers that the mainstream media used in selling these natural 'number' disaster events. I hope to see you in my live chat during the Premiere as I will be looking at the Centaurian Alien race and how it may or may not be disinformation being spread by David Wilcock who definitely is not too shy about being a Drama King. Like I always say... chew the meat and spit out the bones... little bread crumbs here and there can bake me a cake eventually.
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Alaska Gold Mining: The Golden Beaches Of Nome
The “golden beaches” of Nome have been described as the richest beaches in the world… And not without good reason! The lode gold deposits that were the origin of the gold that washed down onto Nome’s beaches must have been absolutely incredible judging by what was left behind.
I briefly described the unique nature of Nome’s beach gold in the video, but the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum described the significance of Nome’s beach deposits to the miners caught up in the gold rush quite well and in a manner that, I believe, better conveys the point. So, I shall share their short explanation below:
“The Anvil Creek strike was good, but it probably would not have outshone the Klondike gold fields, except that it led to an amazing discovery. Many of the stampeders who arrived too late to stake claims along the mouth of the Snake River set up tents on the beach, where they made an amazing discovery. There was gold on the beach. Miners swarming over the strike termed it a ‘poor man's paradise.’
For the average stampeder, the beaches had distinct advantages over the Klondike gold fields. They could be reached easily by ship travel, stampeders to this strike did not have to haul 2,000 pounds of goods over narrow snowy mountain passes. And most importantly, because the beach could not be staked, claims were open to everyone. All these men and women needed were shovels, buckets and a rocker to separate gold from sand. Stampeders from all over the United States joined those from Dawson and the rush was on again.”
Even today, there are large sections of beach around Nome where one may search for gold without having a claim. Just as those seeking their fortunes discovered during the gold rush, most of the land surrounding Nome is inaccessible (either privately owned or owned by the City of Nome). The private land is primarily owned by the Nome Gold Alaska Corporation and various ANCSA Corporations. And the offshore dredging that you see on Discovery’s “Bering Sea Gold” series? One cannot file claims offshore, but instead one must obtain leases to dredge within certain areas, much as the oil and gas industry does with drilling rights. However, in the same spirit that so inspired the miners of the past, large swathes of the “golden beaches” are still open to anyone.
One last point to clarify… You’ll recall the “ancient beaches” I mentioned that the gold miners profitably worked? Fine gold was flowing continuously off of lode deposits farther inland that were slowly being eroded away. However, large fluctuations in sea levels, particularly during the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras shifted the beaches as far inland as the base of the distant hills and as far as six miles out into where the present water level is. This is what caused those eleven distinct beaches where the churning waves tossed around so much gold. Some of the old beach deposits are so deeply buried (intervening auriferous glacial drift also helped bury the ancient beaches) that onshore beach deposits were actually drift mined in the early 1900s by gold miners running shafts down from the surface.
I didn’t purchase it, but I stumbled across a book online while researching Nome before our trip that looked interesting in case anyone would like to see and know more. The details are below:
Nome: City of the Golden Beaches (Alaska Geographic, Vol. 11, No. 1) Paperback – February 1, 1984
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever.
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8 Biggest And Most Expensive Gemstones off All Time
It's pretty amazing, but a different spatial arrangement of carbon atoms can form graphite in one case and one of the most expensive and beautiful stones in the world in the other. Diamonds are a girl’s best friend as we all know. Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about unique crystals that anyone would love to own. Here we go.
Butte Creek Canyon after the Camp Fire
Driving through Butte Creek Canyon after the Camp Fire devastated the area (Honey Run & Centerville Road)
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