Re: NNG: Gold prospecting in Durango, Silverton and Red Mtn. Pass?

I hope that you have better luck than some folks that I camped next to years ago at the Silver Lakes Campground in Silverton. I was in the office talking to either the owner or who ever was in charge that day when this group came in with a quart jar full of iron pyrites mixed with mica that they had panned out of the creek. They were some excited and thought that they were rich and were talking about finding an assayer in the morning to find out how much it was all worth. As they walked out, I looked at the fellow there and we both just shook our heads. He commented, "They all think that it is that easy. If it was that easy, do you think I would be doing this for a living?"