Razor Ride

[beatup]

Condor and I went out exploring for old placer sites yesterday did not find what we were looking for but came came across this old mine way back in the mountains, deep shafts and a lot of the vein was removed from the ridgeline the ore itself was very mineralized.

[GB_Amateur]

Are those mine dumps or tailings piles, or both?  (Maybe vets here can tell from the photos, but not I.)  Did you check any of those piles with your detectors, or is the gold known to be too small to give a signal on a detector, especially in that high mineralization you mention?

Thanks for the pics -- but it does make me long for this vaccine distribution to accelerate (although lots of more important reasons for that exist, too).

[beatup]

the ore piles you can see in one pic where it has been crushed down to fist size and there were piles where it had been crushed down to sand size particles it looked like they just left the ore they had dug out and just packed up and left.  the area was a known silver producing region with gold as a by product of the mining.

[Chase Goldman]

So did you guys detect it or was it not worth it (and why not)?  Just curious and trying to learn as GB said.

[beatup]

no detecting looks like the kind of ore you need to chemicals to get the metals out of it