Today was Day 2 mapping Henderson. Our overall goal for this mapping project is to find the gold.
Think Yukon Cornelius.
Henderson Mountain has the largest gold deposit in the country under it, though no one is allowed to mine it because of a deal with the Feds to protect the Yellowstone watershed. Henderson Mountain sits right out the northeast entrance to Yellowstone.
We split into groups to map different sections of the mountain. Devon took my group and another group around the backside to go see old mining adits, which were SO COOL. There was much rummaging through old mining piles for minerals and other cool finds. On the way out, we found a really interesting rock. It was a sedimentary unit with a giant block of igneous inside it. It baffled us all.
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