I found gold in Colorado Springs, on the sidewalk - nice bracelet, scuffed up, sold it for scrap $75. My wife found a $15 scrap pc. on the ground at the flea market.
Had a buddy in Houston who made every garage sale he could, we'd work all night at the machine shop, then he would sit in the wal-Mart parking lot till the garage sales opened. That ol' boy had an eye for gold, would go thru the junk jewelry boxes and find good gold every time.
So remember - GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT.