All that glisters is not gold, oft have you heard it told ~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
True, but there’s still gold in them there hills – and elsewhere. At prices today, mines long believed played out are being revived near and far. When gold reached $1,063 an ounce Toronto-based Romarco Minerals Inc. reopened the historic Halle Gold Mine near Kershaw, South Carolina, the only gold mine east of the Mississippi.