>>2351215Modern mining uses massive exploration programs to find projects suitable for building a mine on. The process is lengthy, costly and often comes up empty.
As for old mines, the best place to find gold is where people have found gold before, all the old camps are being reexplored right now, billions of dollars are being poured into drill campaigns.
>>2351228many of the old properties are already staked or were held through the decades waiting for the right time to bring them back into operation. The RV mine in Colorado is a good example of this.