Just a quick post to share our Colorado finds of turquoise and gold -- Brad and Mickey have been the best host & hostess in showing us the treasures of Colorado -- I call Mickey, Midas Mickey because she has a gift for knowing where to look -- truly amazing!
Turquoise that washes down from the mine above. We spent hours picking through the dry stream (no running water this year) to find the pieces that filter through the mining process.
The mine has been closed but may reopen sometime in the future.
This picture shows pieces of gold you either pan, water sluice in the river or can get from "dry" washing the dirt in a land sluice.
The straight pieces (top and bottom) are referred to as "wire gold" and the larger "roundish" piece (in the middle of the wires) are called pickers -- as you can usually pick them up with your fingernails.
The black pan is for clean up as you get other metals or grit attached to the gold. It has been quite the learning process. Lots of fun and you cannot beat the scenery as you sit by the stream, panning.
Other things we have found have been our Aspen walking sticks (you've seen this picture in an earlier post), agates, and quartz. Of course we cannot keep everything we find, but we have a few smaller pieces tucked away to travel with us.
We have truly enjoyed our stay and plan to come back next year to explore even more -- two months just wasn't long enough to see and experience everything South Fork and the Rio Grande mountains have to offer.
So we bid Colorado adieu and welcome our new home of Congress, Arizona!!!
Happy Trails,
Susan & Darrel
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