Union soldiers from California found some near Washington D.C. during the Civil War, and gold flakes continue to wash ... and platinum—swirling in black dirt at the bottom of your plastic ...

Armstrong says you never know when you might find a good gold prospecting spot in the backcountry. "If you`re willing to spend an entire day, at a stream to get a couple flakes of gold.

While most would expect the metal to shine through the red dirt, only an experienced ... of the desert and found a vial of flakes in a place not known for gold. 'He took them into my parents ...

Club member Patrick Vercoe of Portland sat down with a small shovel he bought at a garden store and started digging up rocks and dirt ... He did spot a tiny flake of gold, barely discernible ...

Wafer-thin gold flakes emit a faint glimmer after being hit with a laser, and researchers are starting to understand why. Gold flakes are widely used in nanoscience, so the new knowledge should ...

Prospectors call it “flood gold” — fine-sized flakes carried by alluvial waters ... Bell parked his truck at the end of a long dirt road, near an old stagecoach stop. Wearing hip waders ...

SLIDESHOW: Gold Discovered In Charlotte Area George McDonald recently went digging for gold at an overgrown creek that sits on a friend's property. He found several flakes ... in the dirt that's ...

What do the gold flakes add? Not taste—that's for sure. According to XXIV Karat's press materials, they're tasteless and are "considered biologically inert." In addition, we learned ...