Check out the amazing pictures at The Big Picture from The Boston Globe. Collected there are a handful of recent photographs of people searching for, mining, rediscovering, celebrating, buying and selling gold. (37 photos total)
Sought after since the beginning of recorded history, gold remains a highly valued metal, reaching record highs recently, climbing over 135% in value in the past year alone. The recent rise in the price of gold comes just as annual worldwide mine production has decreased – down by nearly 8% since 2001. In human history, only 161,000 tons of gold have been mined – more than half of that extracted in just the past 50 years.
I was reading this articlePeru’s new gold rush damages environment on the Seattle Times site a reprint from the Washington Post, also carried on the BBC News. Look at the picture of the plate used for panning and you can see exactly where a TheGoldCone would be useful, much more useful than traditional methods.
The article reviews that the price of gold has increased 50 percent in the past two years and tripled in the past five, as global investors look to hedge against a falling dollar. Gold hit historic highs this month. That surge has spurred a new Amazon gold rush, with illegal miners pouring into the region and setting up camp along riverbanks, highways and footpaths reaching deep into the rain forest of the Peruvian Amazon.
TheFunTheory.com – This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.
This is a concept we at TheGoldCone love.
We want to encourage our fans to enter the contest using a Gold Cone. Think about solving the world’s problems just a little at a time. Remember TheGoldCone is a green product!
I forgot to post this to the blog, and to mail it on to the Marketing Guy for TheGoldCone. He received actual real mail from Google. Hopefully he can figure this out and put it to good use as we get close to the holiday shopping season.
I was able to get in touch with the original Alaskan prospector who designed the GoldCone as a preliminary to possibly filming him coning as well as providing video history of his experiences. While we don’t have the videos yet, what we do have is the original mold to produce GoldCones. This mold along with the actual original artwork for the packages which used to be all over Alaska are now stored in the current GoldCone HQ. Come on back and see the instructional videos as well as other information a little farther along into Fall.
We have contacted a number of our customers trying to get those who are using The GoldCone to send us pix, instructions, tips, etc.. to compile into a HOWTO for using the Gold Cone. This led one of our customers to take his lovely daughters out to teach them howto use a GoldCone to find their fortune in an unpublishable location. The girls are seen here stopping for coffee with Dad at The Bean Tree Coffeehouse prior to going coning.
Coning Team at the Bean Tree Coffeehouse
Dad has clearly not explained how much fun this is about to be or they would be jumping up and down. Still, he must have explained something as the girls quickly came up with ways to amuse themselves by having the gold cone stick to their elbow as seen here.
The Elbow Trick
The story is that after that he explained to the girls that they were going to learn how simple it is to use the gold cone and do a video explaining it to others. Well that sparked some giggles and they decided to do a HOWTO video on the Elbow Trick. You can watch the video.
Of course, now we are all ready to see the finished videos of the Girls doing Gold Coning, but they haven’t arrived as of yet. Perhaps as the Fall settles in we will receive them.
We at the Gold Cone have been swamped with almost double digit requests for HOWTO videos demonstrating the Gold Cone in use. We have also realized that we don’t have a video with the inventor and original gold miner Bill Klein. So our crack marketing staff has begun working on the videos by ordering video equipment and working with existing customers to obtain videos and images of The GoldCone in use.
Of course the cracked marketing staff immediately began shooting images despite the noticeable lack of water in the area immediately outside our offices. Instead, borrowing a page from the local book Rubber to the Road, http://www.rubbertotheroad.com/, specifically the ride some of us completed called the Find the Gnome Ride (on which we saw ZERO gnomes), they took the following pix. Enjoy the GoldCone Gnome Team in action.
The GoldCone has hired a new Marketing Guy Peter Walker. Peter brings with him Internet Development experience and a keen awareness that the benefits of a The GoldCone to gold panning include its sustainability and reuse in alternative situations. We are excited to see what new things happen now that we have actual shoulders to “put to the wheel“.
Marketing Guy, Peter, at Ultimate Sectionals representing Knox College
One of the final spots The Gold Cone was seen on the Bike Trails of the US was the Coldest Spot in the US, Cut Bank, MT Although it was summer you can tell from the clouds it was a very cold day.
One of the final spots The Gold Cone was seen on the Bike Trails of the US was the Coldest Spot in the US,