Definitely Au country, tuberale. Lots of mining in the old days with millions and millions produced. This more of a silver area in the pics. I tried detecting the tailing piles over by Leadville. We've had over 500 inches of snow on the mountains this season, and the ground's still froze up. Spring melt hasn't started yet. I'm havin to go about 50 miles out right now to detect or camp much, but one more month and this area will be shaped up, but it can and does snow in any month here. khpony we're up here in Frisco in Summit County north of Breckenridge. Pagosa Springs has a lot of treasure tales. You should be close to Treasure Mountain which would be worth checkin out.