I know gold is found there through mining and I believe but not positive platinum is also there, again I'm not positive though.
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I have researched this topic and found that you can indeed find precious metals when using a metal detector. These metal detectors will detect items such as silver, iron, metal, gold and platinum.
Gold and silver.
Gold
silver, quartz, barrite
Platinum
Bauxita
a lump of precious metal is called at nugget if talking about gold
They found gold in the Yukon.
Silver is not manufactured. It is found in nature as a precious metal like gold and then mined to use it.
No, zinc is not a precious metal. It is a necessary industrial metal.
iradium is the precious metal element apart from platinum