Popular Post Allen in MT Posted September 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 5, 2020 Spent a lot of time in East Idaho back in this shaft right in the middle of good gold country. shaft goes back some 200 feet with a short drift here and there. Huge seams of quarts all thru this place. Don't know if the old timers found anything in here as I sure didn't. Did get one hit in the wall using GB2with 6" coil (no quartz)and tried to chisel it out with a small 2lb hammer and east wing rock chisel but no go. Nothing outside in the tailing pile other than blasting caps. They had to be chasing something. Is a real nice area with good gold 70 ft away in creek bed. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Don't mean to state the obvious, but is it possible that this mine produced a form of gold that isn't picked up by a metal detector? Your photos show that someone went to a lot of trouble, presumably for something more than just hope, as you hypothesize. Also, is it out of the question that they mined a different metal? Then again, I suppose if they weren't mining a precious metal you would be able to figure that out from the extent and detail (or lack thereof) in the workings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU_Solitude Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Most hard rock gold isn't going to be free milling or detectable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldseeker5000 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 That drift mine looks a heck of alot like the mine a ways up in Cougar Gulch. If that is the case, you won't find anything in there Allen. I spent more than two hours in there detecting with the Gold Monster and my friend was using an SDC 2300. However, my other friend who was with us found a one ounce specimen, mainly gold. Large thick globs of gold to be exact, the year before. If it is in Cougar, then the gold is very much visible and it is both fed from veins the old timers cleaned out and an tertiary river channel. I found where it is still feeding it as I found the gravels on the saddle on the ridge two years ago. I heard you gave up gold detecting Allen.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen in MT Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 This is in Idaho. I still do a bit of gold detecting but not like I used to. Sold all my gold and bought guns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Loved the pictures of the inside of the mine, too bad you didn't get any gold, but it looks like it was an interesting day regardless. All the best, Lanny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldseeker5000 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Yah Allen, I'm talking about Murray Idaho. Cougar Gulch. Right close to town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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