I doubt there's no more gold bearing quartz left anywhere.
Once upon a time, one mining engineer worked on the difficult-to-drill rock back when gas was cheap, and concluded that's the only kind of gold mining left, and the only way to do it was the way he had done it. He drilled a rock once after all. Big deal. What does he know, he invested in a gold mining scam!
The guy in the cubicle next to yours might have been working on mines in the mountains with quartz veins.
Didn't the California Gold Rush happen because the mountains had been eroding for thousands of years and the rivers had been naturally crushing and sluicing the quartz? Have we reached the point in geological time where ALL the gold bearing quartz has eroded away? Aren't the mountains still there?
The whole point of my theory is that investor capital could be used to grant amateur prospectors access to the easy diggings, locked up deep underground.
Pray tell what are the differences between a "timed blast" and a gunshot? Bearing in mind that there are all kinds of calibers and the sound would be coming from deep underground and passing through a forest of trees?
It's hard to drill rock, yet they do it all the time. They used to do it in the olden days with primitive equipment and somehow they managed.
Don't forget, someone DOES have the right to be in my hypothetical mine. If they run into a Forest Service ranger once or twice a year, they have a ready pretext.
How badly can you stretch what you know? How would you even know whether a few people prospect on millions of acres of abandoned wasteland next to the dirt bikers, the hikers, and the shooters? It's probably not even illegal
Oh, I forgot. There's no more gold bearing quartz veins left. At all. Anywhere. It's not the way you did it.
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