We hiked through the Tumco Mine area over in California as part of our weekly hike. It was very interesting to see how large a hole they dug to get the gold. There are no real structures left of the old mining town but lots posters to show what it looked like in the past. There were some old tanks left from where they used to store arsenic to seperate the gold from the rock. You know the leach fields they left behind have to be very contaminated. We collected some black sand from the mine area and panned it. We did find two tiny flakes of gold in it.
We have also been doing some of our own "mining". We bought this little machine to help wash the sand and gravel and get down to the black sand and "gold". We have found a few specks but nothing big enough to get real gold fever. We aren't fishing so we have fun trying to find specks of gold. This little machine is all self contained and portable. The heaviest thing to haul is the water jug to fill it up.
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