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 April 23, 2025 John has prospected for gold in Arizona 10 years. His experience taught him to deal with the terrain, heat, and gold fever. He makes tools. Gold Is Wonderful to See Very fine gold flake discovered due to hamburger pickle bafflement. This size gold is often referred to as flour gold, powder, micros, micro gold, and oat gold. I am sure there are other designations.  |  Source Looking Forward to Floods? For years, most people have heard of the drought in California. While hugely significant, particularly with respect to our bread basket struggling for water, Arizona has also experienced a very dry period. For gold prospectors, the occurrence of rain is a welcome sight as ...

                                                                                  * 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!  |  Source 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 do...

                                                                                      * 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 cre...