Ghost Gold: Hidden Treasures in Abandoned Mining Camps

Covers treasure hunting in abandoned mining camps: researching historical mining claims, navigating old maps and claim boundaries, analyzing geological data for likely stash locations, interpreting local legends, and using proper detection tools. Addresses legal and ethical considerations for working these historically rich sites. When a mining camp was abandoned, the departing miners often cached their tools, savings, and unsold gold, intending to return. Most never did. These ghost camps are treasure sites frozen in time, and this book gives you the research methods and field techniques to find what was left behind.