[Talisker]

[Fungi]

Ok. But how?

[DannyTN]

Could a metal detector be fine tuned enough to pick up a threshold of gold in a plant?

[Moonman62]

Half the gold ever mined comes from one large asteroid strike in South Africa billions of years ago. Gold is much more abundant in the Solar System than it is on the surface of the Earth. Most of it has been dragged toward the Earth’s core by molten iron.

[count-your-change]

Buy my Gold Detection Kit for $14.95 and you’ll know where the gold is. (Plus S&H)

[Axenolith]

But it never caught on as a prospecting method

Plant associations with the mineral suite of the deposits associated with precious metals was used by savvy prospectors in the old west, and I'm sure elsewhere. Some of them actively accumulate some of the metals for enhanced disease and herbivore resistance and others are just tolerant of them to capitalize on water associated with the exposures structural trends...

[FroggyTheGremlim]

"It's not about having the gold. It's about finding the gold."

[2nd Amendment]

Geologic uniformitarians tell us it takes 4.5 billion years for placer gold deposits to accumulate in our streams. But here in Georgia we find fresh gold after every major rain. There is even cases of gold forming on underground mining timbers in Australia. It is true that “gold is where you find it” unless your prospecting partner is wearing gold repellant!

[McGruff]

Are you frickin kidding me?

[Daffynition]

[The Great RJ]

I was expecting a story about using wood for dowsing.

[Rebelbase]

I’ve heard of nuggets being found the root-ball of fallen trees before.

[Jet Jaguar]

Goldbug ping.