How did mideival villages and even people before that find gold and sliver and other metals with out tech like we have now? Reason i ask i want to do a living history set up as a miner starting a mine.
Hi, not discouraging others from answering, but to get you started, check out
/u/zifyoip in How did miners during the middle ages find metal ore deposits to mine?
a now-deleted account gives some context for the silver trade during the Middle Ages in Flow of Silver
/u/Holokyn-kolokyn describes a slightly later time period, which may be useful in How did ancient mines work?