I don't think I have ever been active at kitco... But I have used 'auminer' every website it's been available at since the mid 90s. I could see where someone else might want that particular moniker at kitco, though.
I use it as homage to my favorite hobby of the late 80s and early 90s of gold prospecting in the mountains of Colorado.
As for "" alchemy "", that's been my strategy as well... Got a few dozen pounds of silver in an ammo box along with the little bit of Placer gold I pulled out of French Gulch in Breckenridge.
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