Gold Findings

There was a man by the name of Al Lancaster, who found some white gravel on the on a high bench that was part of an old river bed in Klondike, California. People did not believe what he was doing and mocked him, because it was said the metal had been deposited very low down. Al Lancaster staked the first bench claim in that area though and a production of $200,000 in gold was retrieved. Streaks are other areas where gold can sometimes be found. Old timer Clarence Berry got lucky and retrieved $1.1/2 million from the diggings he sluiced in Klondike in 1897 and left this area a very rich man, along with his wife Ethel Berry. Clarence then went to Fairbanks to meet up with his brothers and located another big bonanza for the second time. They then moved back over to California, made some investments in oil lands close to Bakersfield, and this funded him to be able to drill for oil in Kansas. This provided the resources for very big investments for lands in Colorado. There are also other occurrences where people have rolled and fallen straight into luck such as is the case of Harry Preston in 1909. Apparently this man slipped on a rock mound and he slipped with his heels that had moved the moss over exposing a big size vein of gold which had a dome shape to it. This later became known as the world renowned Dome mine. The gold district of Porcupine produced over $11/2 billion up to now. Gold was not the only precious metal produced in by causality in that area. In 1903, in the northern area of Ontario at Cobalt, there was man by the name of Fred LaRose who was a blacksmith that worked at a forge. It is said that Fred had thrown one of his hammers at a fox, however his hammer did not touch the fox but rather chipped a rock which then exposed a little bit of silver. This ended up being the richest silver vein in the entire world. During the past century, Ontario has been one of the leading producers of metals in the world and in recent years made over $3 billion per year.