" Duck Gold " An Alternative Method

[strick]

Im still a newbie to this hobby but  I try to take in as much knowledge as as I can from all of the more experienced prospectors on this board. I've learned a lot in the last 3 years from some of you fellas and to that I am greatful. That being said I stumbeled or should I say my wife stumbled upon a new method of unearthing gold the other day. She was taking a lunch time walk around the lake where she works and noticed a duck pecking at something shiny near the waters edge. The curious bird eventually tired of playing with or trying to eat the shiny object so Lisa went down to investigate  and found a nice gold chain and pendant. It tests 10k with acid. Included is a photo of the pendant and a short video that demonstrates what one might "look for"  when employing this new technique of finding gold. I realize that the video is of geese but the same method applies to ducks. Some of the members of this board are snowed in right now and I hope you find this post useful. You might want to turn some music on when watching the video.....

 

strick 

 

 

[LipCa]

Have to follow those geese around!!

Before it was stolen, we had a gold display in our courthouse that showed some gold recovered from a chicken's gizzard.

[normmcq]

Near LaPorte in Plumas county, there was an area  named "Secret Diggins"  The story is after finding gold in the chicken's gizzard, they followed the chickens to where they were feeding and that is where the secret diggins were.

[zstricky]

I came across this a couple years ago....  http://strangemaine.blogspot.com/2015/03/aroostooks-gold-digging-chickens.html?m=1

[brogansown]

If you go to the Library of Congress Chronicling America digitized Newspaper site and type in the words "gold gizzard," over 300 articles pop up about gold in goose and chicken gizzards found over past 150 years.  Some of the stories are copies and some are probably copy-cat articles, but many are probably true. 

[wombat]

G'day Strick 

We have a big lake here in Maryborough Victoria ( heart of the Golden Triangle) in Aussie land, called "Victoria Lake". Named after Queen Victoria who reined from 1837 till 1901. This lake has heaps of ducks on it, and was part of the main lead that ran right though Maryborough where many of oz of gold were found back in the 1850's. It was not a lake at the beginning, but there was so much work done in that area recovering gold, that eventually it was turned into a lake in later years. (Easier than filling in the hole)  So next time I'm down that way I'll check out these walking, two legged detectors to see if they pick up something.  

It's a nice looking chain and pendent that your two legged feather friends found. The stone in the middle of the pendent looks like to me to be what they call a Milky or White Opal. Some are worth a bit of money.As you may know Australia has some of the best Opal fields in the world. So if it is an Opal the chances are it may have come from Australia.

wombat 

[Jen58]

Isn't it amazing what a bird will eat.. 

Thankyou for the vid strick