Posted by Alex Forbes on August 03, 2018 at 19:30:47 user Pitsligo.
In Reply to: Re: NUGGET of GOLD posted by John Wilson on August 01, 2018 at 20:42:23:
I, too, have wondered if the interest in gold prospecting and ingot-casting came about because someone had read of the Klondyke gold rush. Ingots are certainly a dramatic presentation, and a good substitute when properly impressive nuggets are proving difficult to find. Any guesses what that book might have been? Something by Jack London, maybe?
Thank you, John Wilson, for answering a question I have long had: is staking a claim something that happens in English law? Partially growing up in the mountains of California, with gold and silver workings fairly common in the areas I hiked, the idea was completely natural to me, but it always seemed out of place in an English setting.
Alex
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