>>2744848It was literally at an old mine, the tunnel is still open with just a sign saying Danger - Open Mine Shaft, but it is in a wilderness area and well off trail and there are trees blocking the entrance and sign so you can’t see it until you are literally 6inches from being inside the tunnel.
>picrel>tailings>to the right of black streak is 2-3mm of what looks like almost pure gold>the the left of black streak looks like an edge of rotten quartzInside were some rocks that looked like tailings and maybe 5mm was gold ore that was still stuck to other rock, I’m guessing this is what was mined and it’s the tailings from the edge of the vein.
Outside there was some pieces of rotten quartz that I could crush with my hand and looked like it had a lot of gold. It seemed like it was falling from above the mine, like I could see the way that water would flow off the rocks and it seemed to be washing out a rotten quartz vein that was above the mine and sending it all into a little wash just to the right of the tunnel entrance.
Then there were these other yellow rocks, they looked like they fell into the area or rolled downhill recently. There was a big one on a ledge above the tunnel that I thought that was a chunk of fresh dry wood at first glance, it was that much of a yellow or gold or wheat color. Then I realized that you usually don’t find perfectly dried firewood or lumber among deadfall in the forest so I climbed up a little and got closer and it was definitely a large yellow rock.
I’m pretty sure the rock in
>>2744341 pic was a chunk that broke off of the yellow rock when it fell and some chunks had rolled further downhill near the tunnel entrance. I’m not a good climber and it is wilderness so I just took this little piece with me instead of going up there. You can’t really capture it in a picture but if you roll that rock from
>>2744341 around in your hand in the sunlight it is full of golden sparkles.
