Mining isn't what it use to be

As one hears stories of "ol' tymers" stumbling across big nuggets and huge load bearing ores, one may want to jump up and go find some themselves but it's not like it use to be. Most of the ground level big nuggets or veins have been stumbled across by determined prospectors years ago. When and still an area got established as having gold many hoards of people would rush to there creating a gold rush and they were thorough. Spending months and years searching every inch of these areas many would go home broken and broker then when they came. Some rare few may and have found massive nuggets weighing upwards of 87 pounds like the one in Banco Central museum in Brazil. So if one is heading out with a pick, pan and bucket in hopes of finding pounds of gold be prepared to work alot harder then the "ol tymers" because they scooped up all the easy stuff so mining isn't what it use to be.