Hi Steve and Roughwaters,nice to meet you!I live in northern Italy,in the central Alps,it's one of the few areas where gold can be found here and it comes in small flakes and filaments brought to the plains by rivers once the glaciers retreated,so no lumps here and a lot of prospecting in river side must be done! I'd like to take the md either where the old timers used to do mining and also in harsh secluded areas where no one has ever prospected :)