Jason bringing Pelias the Golden Fleece; a winged victory prepares to crown him with a wreath. Side A from an Apulian red-figure calyx crater. 340-330 BC. Louvre Museum. The famous myth of the Golden Fleece, Jason and the expedition of the Argonauts had a –literally- “golden” background. This has to do with the fact that this area of the Black Sea (modern Georgia) was rich of precious metals particularly gold. There a sheepskin technique was used by the natives for recovering placer gold: the fine gold particles that flowed in the rivers were “trapped” in the sheepskins. The skins would then be dried and beaten to shake out their contents. This is probably how the image of a skin full of gold particles was generated; an image which led to the myth of the “Golden Fleece”.
Surveys by the geologists show that gold ore veins (marked with orange ovals) and stream beds that contain rich gold deposits (marked with yellow ovals) exist today and have been replenished after historical mining
A collection of ancient gold bracelets and necklaces found in Vani, Western Georgia.
Monument in Batumi, Georgia, to the Kolkhetian Princess Medea holding the Golden Fleece of Greek Mythology http://www.geauga4h.org/sheep/sheep_wool.htm ....Wool is a modified hair structure. It is more fine in diameter and more elastic than hair. Wool has a crimpy, wavy appearance.Wool is elastic. It holds its shape and will regain its shape after stretching. It resists sagging and wrinkling, and is soft, light in weight, and absorbent.Wool absorbs water more readily than any other textile fiber. (Q always says things have double meaning. Golden Fleece-Literally Extracting gold using sheep wool to pan for it and then of course working the human sheep in field and extracting taxes from them. Also when panning gold one must "watch the water")
The bottom of any good sluice has “miners moss” or carpet on it. Likewise, you can get fine gold out of moss on the banks and edge rocks of existing placer containing streams.
You’ll also have the potential of getting heavy grayish metal placer too, that hardly anyone pursues because it’s not shiny... platinum!