Treasure & Wellness: Gold, Money, Silver, and DIY Guides

                                                                                       * Updated on May 10, 2025 John is a baby boomer whose father endured the Great Depression. He was taught to be frugal and self-sufficient. It's his way of life. This article provides several tips for making money through recycling.  |  Source Earning Cash With Recycling Is Easy! For many years, I have been interested in the environment, saving money, and tinkering. There are times when all three proclivities seem to converge or overlap. For me, this has always taken the form of recycling. In this article, I will share some tips for saving money and earning extra cash by recycling plastic bottles. The article is directed at those who are highly motivated to earn some money on ...

                                                                                  * Updated on June 12, 2025 John has recycled metals most of his life and is fascinated by waste that has value. Recycling made him aware of its necessity—and worth. You can find treasures in the most unlikely places, like in the cracks and crevices of a sidewalk!   Treasure in the Sidewalks Nothing could be more blasé than walking, head bent down, and passing concrete sidewalk sections and expansion joint dividers, one after another. But in bustling urban jewelry quarters, a new kind of gold prospecting is taking place. Gemstones, silver, platinum, and especially gold are being mined from sidewalk cracks full of years' worth of traffic dirt from customers walking in and out. A dime a dozen, we've all...

*                                                                                     Updated on September 16, 2023 John has recycled metals most of his life and is fascinated by waste that has value. Recycling made him aware of its necessity—and worth. An incredible amount of steel comes from auto salvage yards.  |  Source Penny Wise and Pound Foolish? As of December of 2018, evidence has been gathered showing that Chinese hot-dip galvanization of steel coils causes an increase of as much as 50% more greenhouse gas. This steel material is used in construction. Consider that galvanizing can occur with recycled or virgin steel. This takes into account GHG for a large building's steel galvanizing only. When consideration is given to the total amount of pollution created fr...

                                                                                * Updated on March 30, 2024 John loves writing about Arizona, gold prospecting, and stories of treasure. Beyond finding his gold, he likes reading about others' quests. Copper, gold, and silver were a boon for Cornish miners in 1850s Arizona.  |  Source A Bit of History Cornwall is a county in Southwest England in the United Kingdom surrounded by water. The English Channel is to the south, and the Celtic Sea is to the west. Arizona is very dry and bordered by no oceans. Cornwall has historically been 99% White British. Arizona has historically had a broad ethnic spectrum: 43% White and 50% Hispanic, with Native Americans, Blacks, and Asians making up the balance. It would seem that the two states have ...