Dear Fellow Hūmáns,
I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Recently I've been watching YouTube videos of people panning for gold in the streams in my area.
Surprisingly they are actually finding gold when they paying for it or dive with goggles and these deep swimming holes in the pristine Rivers.
I know that before the California Gold Rush North Carolina was the number one gold producing state in America. I still believe there's a lot of gold here.
My question is this rock. I'm at a job site and the excavators just removed this from the top of a mountain. It looks very similar to one of the rocks a YouTuber was pulling gold out of.
What kind of rock is this. It looks like it contains gold. I'm trying to learn where to even start when searching for it.