While she is gone, Kuya is busy fixing up the house, including putting new screens on her bedroom windows (which had rusted out and had holes leaving mosquitoes inside).
The latest news for our rice land: One more harvest to go, but a good winter harvest.
But even though we are in the major rice growing part of Luzon, there has been pressure to divert land for solar energy farms.
And now: A gold rush:
Someone found gold nearby so a lot of farmers are digging up the superficial soil to pan for gold. Presumably they will put it back into place before planting season in June.
grok says there are no reports of gold in our area, although it can be found 45 km from here in Palayan.
Gapan City in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, does not appear to have active gold mining, significant gold deposits, or gold panning activities directly within or immediately around the city itself. Nueva Ecija province has some historical and limited association with gold, primarily in other areas:
There are mentions of small-scale or historical placer (alluvial) gold in parts of the province, such as near Palayan City (where a "Palayan Gold Mine" was referenced in older reports, located about 45 km north of Gapan City and near Cabanatuan).
Some copper-gold occurrences or prospects have been noted near Cabanatuan (close to Gapan), but these are not major operations.
........more here is history
The province is better known for agriculture (as the "Rice Bowl of the Philippines") and tourism spots like Minalungao National Park in General Tinio, which has been poetically called a "mine of gold" due to its scenic beauty (e.g., clear river, limestone formations, and cave), not actual gold resources. Gold panning was historically restricted there to protect the environment after it became a protected area. No recent news, discoveries, or active mining operations show up specifically tied to Gapan City. Searches for gold mining, deposits, or panning in the area mostly point to jewelry shops, pawnshops dealing in gold (e.g., Cebuana Lhuillier branches, local jewelers like Helen Jewelry Shop or Chinatown Gold Center), and buy/sell posts for gold items in Gapan and nearby cities like Cabanatuan. If you're referring to buying, selling, or pawning gold jewelry/items in Gapan City, it's a commercial hub with several pawnshops and jewelry stores where gold is commonly traded (often at rates aligned with current Philippine gold prices, around PHP 5,000–8,000+ per gram depending on karat and market fluctuations). If this query is about something more specific—like a particular news story, investment, historical site, or local business—feel free to provide more details for a deeper look!
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