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Gold Mine / Junior Prospecting (RF 28-70L)

Started Nov 7, 2021 | Photos thread
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RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,426
Gold Mine / Junior Prospecting (RF 28-70L)
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My son is an aspiring prospector; his choice of obsession isn't cameras or photography, but rather collecting money, purchasing rare coins, metal detecting and has been asking about prospecting. We took him on a tour to a local historical mine for his birthday. As always, when the light is in doubt, the RF 28-70 comes along...

A common piece of quartz

The committee in charge of naming, didn't know this wasn't in fact the first strike. You don't go digging ditches before the mine, apparently.

Ancient cart axel, buried in the brush

Alloy deposits in the quartz, similar to what the miners would've seen and taken to be crushed for extraction

One of the many veins

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