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On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:31:27 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:

> On 16/12/2025 5:59 am, rbowman wrote:
> 
> <Snip>
> 
>> I've been on that trail. There are quite a few mines like that that
>> never paid out and were abandoned and Pulaski was lucky to know about
>> that one.
>> Still, it takes a lot of self control to shelter in a mine and hope for
>> the best, but it's better than climbing into a Shaken'Bake I guess.
> 
> One might hope that it wasn't a Coal mine .... or, otherwise, hope the
> Coal was well and truly played out! ;-P

It probably was a hopeful silver prospector, or it might have been a gold 
hopeful.

https://www.isu.edu/digitalgeologyidaho/n-idaho-mining/

There's quite a bit of gold in Idaho along the Snake River. The problem is 
it's 'flour gold', very fine and difficult to extract from the sand. It 
didn't stop people from trying. 

I've run into some hobby miners but they're a closed mouth paranoid bunch. 
I've always wondered what they see that triggers them to dig like a badger 
here and not over there but they're not talking.

https://www.kpax.com/news/missoula-county/wildlife-officials-urge-public-
to-avoid-bear-den-on-mount-sentinel

The mine is about 25' deep so they gave up. Butte was the copper lode but 
I don't think anyone found gold, silver, or copper here. Even copper was a 
disappointment until electrification made it a valuable commodity.