Reclaimed mine site

[golden optimist]

This is the old Burlington, a reclaimed mine site near Jamestown, Co. This was a real mess about 10 years ago.

This is Corky and my youngest son Scott. You can see the site in the background.

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This is an evaporation pond with the "bad mine water" kept in a lined pond. The things in it are tennis balls to keep the birds from landing in it.

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Leonard

[impfected]

Is that dead guppies between the tennis balls?
Good thing I wasn't there with my dog. There'd be less tennis balls!

Al

[golden optimist]

It was fenced off good. I don't think you'd want your dog in it. The pond was lined and this was the drainage out of the old mine. It looked like it was an evaporation pond. This http://www.opalgroupinc.com/burlington.shtml says theres 45,000 of the birdballs there.

Leonard

[Ornery Cuss]

GO,
Two questions;

What is Corky doing with a flashlight ?

Gold mine or other ?



OC

[golden optimist]

We were headed to a gold mine but couldn't get access to it that day. We ended up at the burlington site instead. It was a gold mine and about 200 yards from there was this.

http://golddredger.com/fluoritemine/fluorsparmine1.htm

http://golddredgervideo.com/prospecting/floritemine.wmv

[klondike jake]

well, todd hoffman says that the eviromentalists r starting to shut down the klondike. war is coming.

[russau]

yep Ike, they cant leave well enough alone and stay in their own backyard! i wonder when we are going to go after them?

[COArgonaut]

Hey, Boss. Your old post says you hauled off a bucket of the florite stuff. What did ya find?
A little research says florite is often found in the base rock and is associated with lead and zinc deposits. Find any of that stuff?

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