Visiting family and sneeking out for some fun....

[mike(swWash)]

I'm visiting family near Boise, Idaho this week. The weather is about 15* above normal, in the 70's and sunshine. Haven't dipped a pan yet, been out looking at gem sites and such this time for something different.

1st one I drove to was an opal site, way back in the mountains. I got there and saw it had claim posts, found the paperwork and it was claimed 10-18-18....5 days before I got there. I went to a backup unclaimed site and picked up some low grade petrified wood and other pretty rocks.


Yesterday I searched for and found an old gold mine in the Owyhee mountains and grabbed a bucket of samples from the main vein next to the opening......and more pretty rocks, there's lot's of rose quartz in the area of the site.

Here's a link to the history of the mine and some pictures, and no, I did not go inside. It was verrrrrry loose rock around the opening.
The Berg mine.....
https://idahogeomap.nkn.uidaho.edu/webmap/WebData/Mines.asp?Operation=Details&IDs=BO0410

Getting there...

main portal

Ore body next to the tunnel...



Even wild horses couldn't keep me away....

Nor could any goofy goats......

More later cheers....

 

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[dave wiseman]

I'm visiting family near Boise, Idaho this week. The weather is about 15* above normal, in the 70's and sunshine. Haven't dipped a pan yet, been out looking at gem sites and such this time for something different.

1st one I drove to was an opal site, way back in the mountains. I got there and saw it had claim posts, found the paperwork and it was claimed 10-18-18....5 days before I got there. I went to a backup unclaimed site and picked up some low grade petrified wood and other pretty rocks.


Yesterday I searched for and found an old gold mine in the Owyhee mountains and grabbed a bucket of samples from the main vein next to the opening......and more pretty rocks, there's lot's of rose quartz in the area of the site.

Here's a link to the history of the mine and some pictures, and no, I did not go inside. It was verrrrrry loose rock around the opening.
The Berg mine.....
https://idahogeomap.nkn.uidaho.edu/webmap/WebData/Mines.asp?Operation=Details&IDs=BO0410

Getting there...
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Ore body next to the tunnel...
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Even wild horses couldn't keep me away....
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Nor could any goofy goats......
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More later cheers....

nice pics..the quartz veins look like a stock works..

 

[mike(swWash)]

Stock works?

 

[Lycof]

Nice Mike, you should bring a truckload home Have a safe trip home. check your texts, i sent ya a pic

 

[dave wiseman]

Stock works?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockwork

 

[oneguy]

Mike.... That's not a goat, it's a pronghorn antelope.

 

[A2coins]

Wow cool pics thats adventure right there Thanks for sharing

 

[rodoconnor]

Mike.... That's not a goat, it's a pronghorn antelope.

That's just local slang for antelope .

 

[mike(swWash)]

Thanks Dave, never heard of stockworks, I just called them quartz stringers.

I see if there's anything in it when I get home a crush it some. Time to build a flail rock crusher