But did you come across any color? =D My stepdad keeps bugging me to go down there with him, east of Ridgway and up the river for some prospecting.
We went to an old mine on the side of US 550 and walked through some tailings. We found several samples with “color”- galena, sphalerite, covellite, and the dreaded pyrite. There appears to be some elemental silver in some of the samples and maybe some of the color is gold but I need to use my microscope at work to determine so. My eyes are too bad to see if they are cubic crystals or not. My sons developed a case of gold fever. If we would have had more time, I would have liked to have panned. When I was a kid, we did some near Pagosa Springs and my dad still has a little jar with some gold in it.