Today's Mining Camp Finds!

Old Pueblo · Nov 16, 2017

Some more stuff from the past few days. Best find are the miner's tag and the old Army rifle casings from the Apache Wars era, including two 45-70s dated February 1886 and one blank .50-70 Government. Also some shotgun shells from around the turn of the century and that quartz crystal, which would have came out of the mines. Found some other old shells as well, but these are my favorites. And the 1939 date nail came out of the usual railroad tie turned fence post. That rusty thing is a tiny ball peen hammer head. Thanks for looking.

against the wind · Nov 16, 2017

Congrats on some pretty cool finds,,
Don't forget the marble

Cal_Cobra · Nov 16, 2017

Like the miner tag, I've found a few myself, but most were just numbers, not marked from the mine.

HH,
Brian

trapperart · Nov 17, 2017

More nice finds congrats

scruggs · Nov 17, 2017

Nice finds and like the marble too!

Trezurehunter · Nov 17, 2017

Congrats on some nice relic finds Pueblo. I like that miners tag and marble. We have dated nails like that here in Illinois, except ours are in telephone polls ( before they went to the aluminum tags ).

Old Pueblo · Nov 17, 2017

Trezurehunter said:
Congrats on some nice relic finds Pueblo. I like that miners tag and marble. We have dated nails like that here in Illinois, except ours are in telephone polls ( before they went to the aluminum tags ).

What years do you see up there? I’ve only found two nails in old telephone poles. Both 1940s

Old Pueblo · Nov 17, 2017

Cal_Cobra said:
Like the miner tag, I've found a few myself, but most were just numbers, not marked from the mine.

HH,
Brian

I’ve found 3 of them at old mines, but none of them have the name of the mine either. They’re not as common as these plain ones with just numbers, I think.