Prospecting

Hi Friends,

I recently got to do some gold prospecting in Arizona with my metal detector. I had a fun day hiking and exploring but, ultimately, found no gold.

Here are a couple of scenery and plant pics:

With the area I was in being a known gold bearing district and with a large active mining operation very close by, I did find a couple of old mine sites. Here is one:

I do this for fun and the risk of entering abandoned mines is not worth it for me (and I was alone) so I opted to not explore the underground tunnels.

I did take some samples from a quartz vein, which my detector was not hitting on, but which could have gold in it - I will have to crush that up and pan it out sometime soon.

Better luck next time!

Thanks for coming by,
Brian