Floods & Landslides

The bigger question is why now the world is in a state of upheaval, is there another agenda on the world stage to take advantage of ecological disasters at this time...


 
The "Lithium Grab" speculation is misplaced, as the lithium deposits exist in a narrow belt just a few miles west of Charlotte. An hour drive at least from Chimney Rock and even further from Asheville.

... pegmatites occur in a belt over 60 km long and 1 to 2 km wide astride the South Carolina - North Carolina boundary in the southeastern United States (Fig. 1). The Tin-Spodumene Belt (TSB) was considered the site of the largest spodumene pegmatite deposit in the world at the time production ceased in the 1990s ( Kunasz 1976Kunasz , 1982. The TSB is composed of hundreds of dikes of granitic pegmatite, many cassit- erite-and spodumene-bearing, enclosed in metamorphic rocks of the Inner Piedmont Province. Initial economic interest in the TSB belt in the early 1900s focused on cassiterite, both in residual placer deposits and in the pegmatites ( Ledoux 1889, Pratt & Sterrett 1904, Keith & Sterrett 1917, Kesler 1942. The occurrence of beryl in the pegmatites led to speculation about beryllium resources in the TSB (Griffitts 1954), but ultimately it was lithium that proved to be the major resource. Mining of spodumene commenced in the 1950s and continued until the 1990s. Two major mines, the Kings Mountain Mine (KMM) operated by the Foote Mineral Company (now the Chemetall Foote Corporation) opened in 1952, and the Hallman-Beam Mine (HBM) ( Fig. 1) operated by Lithium Corporation of America (now FMC Lithium) opened in1969, about 17 km north- east of the KMM. Prior to the utilization of alkali brines, spodumene from unzoned spodumene pegmatites, such as in the TSB, was the major source of lithium for indus- trial applications (London & Burt 1982). Hard-rock mining of spodumene in the TSB ceased in the 1990s. Recent industrial demand for lithium has increased, however, and there is recent exploration for spodumene in the TSB (Arrow Minerals ...


However, gold exists all over the region and the first gold rush in North America (not counting De Soto) was here until 1849 when California started. The first US mint was in Rutherford County. There are many places on the rivers where you can pay to pan for gold and precious stones.

Drawn by the gold to be found in the rivers of western North Carolina, thousands of fortune seekers kindled a North Carolina Gold Rush to the foothills of the Blue Ridge in the 1820s. Among them was the German jeweler Christopher Bechtler who bought land in Rutherford County in 1830 and began his own – not very successful – search for gold.
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The Bechtler Mint Site is the western anchor on North Carolina’s “golden crescent” that extends to the Reed Gold Mine east of Charlotte. Since Bechtler’s death in 1842, his land has passed through many hands, once selling to speculators for over $1 million and once selling at auction for less than $100. Farmers, loggers and curio-seekers have churned up its soil and erased many features.


When a 17-pound rock of gold was found on John Reed’s farm in 1799, the first documented gold find in the United States, it was used as a doorstop for three years before its identity was realized. The gold discovery in Cabarrus County forever changed the state and John Reed’s farm became Reed Gold Mine. America’s first gold rush followed and North Carolina became the home to a federal and a private mint while leading the nation in gold production until 1848.

 
There are many places on the rivers where you can pay to pan for gold and precious stones.

This is one of the tourist attractions in the state. There are small businesses all over advertising panning for gemstones, and even processing them into something useable. Of course, they have to "salt" the gravel to make sure there's a find. Don't want unhappy customers! Still, it's a fun experience for a kid.

Most of the easily accessible genuine sites have been panned out. But there's still plenty more if you are willing to hike to them.
 
However, gold exists all over the region and the first gold rush in North America (not counting De Soto) was here until 1849 when California started. The first US mint was in Rutherford County. There are many places on the rivers where you can pay to pan for gold and precious stonesI
I thought the area around the US house would be interesting to dig while I was there. There are a lot of 'pan your own crystals' shops around there, who knows?
 
The bigger question is why now the world is in a state of upheaval, is there another agenda on the world stage to take advantage of ecological disasters at this time...



Was going to post the above to the Great Reset thread but you beat me to it! In any case, a big point in this very good interview was in Newman's conveying of how the war against Trump is not only a 'deep state'/ military-industrial-complex effort to derail him - but also, to some large degree, a Globalist effort (albeit from behind the scenes). Because Trump, while still in office, was trying to neutralize several Davos-related initiatives and policies that have had (and still do have) these elites running scared.

Getting back to Helene - a large number of people have taken notice of the apathy demonstrated by Federal (and even State) governments to those in dire need in NC. We're seeing a slew of stories now about FEMA's lack of response and funding to help those in desperate situations, which has made it painfully obvious to Americans experiencing or watching this story that they will just need to fend for themselves should anything destabilizing occur.

That's the quiet vicious message here, and perhaps one of the lessons to what we're seeing - and what we're likely to see in the future as conditions deteriorate further; with such malevolence at or near the top, it'll just be people helping people through whatever resources and generosity of spirit they/we have.

This egregiously negligent response to Helene reminds me somewhat of the "engineering" of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio last year, and what was said then:

(Joe) Just a follow-up on the East Palestine train accident: Was the reason that train was derailed on purpose to cause a toxic spill, was that in order to further left-right divisions in America?

A: Yes

Q: (Joe) That was the primary goal?

A: Not necessarily. If you are going for terror, depopulation, and general mayhem, you gotta starts somewhere.

While I don't think Helene was engineered as the derailment in Ohio was necessarily, it is interesting to note that many of the hardest hit, and those least helped, are the populations who live in the towns and mountains of NC. And who are very likely to vote for Trump, unlike those who live in some of the bigger cities of NC. This in a state, we are told, where the polling for both candidates is very close.
 
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Roswell NM has flooded! This must be some kind of landmark, right in the middle of the dessert. 👽👽👽


That's another example of an otherwise normal storm staying put and dropping lots of rain. The 'staying put' part is likely due to jet stream blocking, which has been happening a lot in recent years, but the real problem is the amount of rain that these storms carry.

 
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