T, on this I'd have to agree with Ant about the chrysocolla. Really hard to tell sometimes from a pic, but either way, it's a copper mineral. Amethyst won't help you any on a quest for precious minerals. There is an old mine in the middle of four gold claims I own and couldn't figure out what they were after just looking at the tailings. Took several months of research to learn what they were mining , and as it turns out, they were after the small amethyst crystals as an industrial abrasive during the second WW. A Spanish mine in the area does sound promising, tho, but you have to know what they were after. Not long ago, I spent umpteen-million hours researching an old Spanish mine that hadn't been see in centuries, spent two full days hiking into the area thru some of the roughest country I've ever seen, and even spent a full day just getting thru one canyon along cliffs and a four inch wide deer path to get there only to find out that, the good news, the mine was close to where I thought it was, bad news, it wasn't a gold mine like I'd been left to believe, but a low grade silver mine. Found some cool relics around the mine since I'd packed my gold machine in there, but couldn't even find one rock in the tailings, either pile, worth hauling out. Sorry, said that wrong, one was a tailings pile, true, the other was an ore pile that had been hand sorted. In that area, there was a copper mine to one side, and a gold mine on the other, both later, all trending in the same direction, but several miles apart. A word to the wise about the Spanish back then. They never did any work of the work themselves, they always had slave labor. So, even tho there is an old Spanish mine, it doesn't mean that they dug there because it was the highest return per ton, only that they were finding something and what they did get was pretty much profit since it didn't cost them anything. I wish you luck and let us know how you did around the old mine.
Randy
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