Ashman
Full Member
- Apr 11, 2012
- 182
- 83
- Detector(s) used
- AT-Pro & F75-SE
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
So yesterday on the way to take a hike and check out a waterfall I spotted a place off the road about 600+ yards or so that you could see some nice quartz veins and what looked like where maybe someone popped a few holes down the wall.
I told myself and more importantly the wife that today we would just take a break and get some things done around the house. Truthfully I was sore as hell after the last few days.
Well after thinking about that stupid spot all day that we saw yesterday, well it got the best of me. So I told the wife I need to get some things from the grocery store and I really want to run by the place we saw yesterday and take a quick and closer look.
So when I got there I could quickly see I was right about there were spots on the wall where others have been digging. Then I looked the other direction and I could also see what looked like some even older places that had been dug up. I added some pics to this post. Think I can even see some crystals in there.
I went down to take a look and then I found a small opening that looked like it opens up to a cave or old mine. The small opening is roughly 3’ wide and one and half feet tall. I looked a little close and it seem to open up inside to a much larger area. It was really dark inside and no way was I climbing down in there without someone with more experience. From where I was standing to the bottom looked to be at least 6 feet down if not further.
The odd part to all of this was where was all the dirt to this mine/cave ? I just looked at all the maps I could find over the last 20 years of this area and nowhere on them did I see any piles or dirt. I didn’t see any trace of any dig of any kind.
My guess is at a minimum this mine/cave is at least 5 feet wide, 5 to 6’ tall and a minimum of 5 feet deep. But I really could not see anything past 4 to 5 feet back. It could be a lot deeper.
This is also at the base of a mountain, its like this goes under the mountain.
I told myself and more importantly the wife that today we would just take a break and get some things done around the house. Truthfully I was sore as hell after the last few days.
Well after thinking about that stupid spot all day that we saw yesterday, well it got the best of me. So I told the wife I need to get some things from the grocery store and I really want to run by the place we saw yesterday and take a quick and closer look.
So when I got there I could quickly see I was right about there were spots on the wall where others have been digging. Then I looked the other direction and I could also see what looked like some even older places that had been dug up. I added some pics to this post. Think I can even see some crystals in there.
I went down to take a look and then I found a small opening that looked like it opens up to a cave or old mine. The small opening is roughly 3’ wide and one and half feet tall. I looked a little close and it seem to open up inside to a much larger area. It was really dark inside and no way was I climbing down in there without someone with more experience. From where I was standing to the bottom looked to be at least 6 feet down if not further.
The odd part to all of this was where was all the dirt to this mine/cave ? I just looked at all the maps I could find over the last 20 years of this area and nowhere on them did I see any piles or dirt. I didn’t see any trace of any dig of any kind.
My guess is at a minimum this mine/cave is at least 5 feet wide, 5 to 6’ tall and a minimum of 5 feet deep. But I really could not see anything past 4 to 5 feet back. It could be a lot deeper.
This is also at the base of a mountain, its like this goes under the mountain.
