Need some help

[DigEmAll]

I also posted this in the hard rock forum... wasn't quite sure where this would go. :P

I am new to gold country and haven't got a clue. I have found an old prospector's cabin in the upper areas of the mountains. He has three mines and about five test digs that I have found so far. If he spent his life there, and could afford enough TNT to make that many holes, he had to be finding something! Right? Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here can tell me what to look for while I am out detecting for relics. What are the indicators that I should be looking for? I don't even know if my detector will find a nugget smaller than a BB, so this is going to be a hands and knees job!

I found these rocks today up there... anyone know what the colors are indicitive of? Also found this copper nugget, but don't think that it came from this immeadiate area. But you should have seen my eyes when I picked it up after my detector hit it! Oh what could have been......

[Monty]

Isn't raw copper a blue breen color? Just a guess? Monty

[DigEmAll]

You got me? Only thing mined where I am from is limestorne! This is all new to me, but the nugget is copper Look at the little nipple right is the middle of this pic.