“I heard him hollering down in the hole as soon as I got there,” he said. “I was just glad to see him alive.”

It took me awhile before I finally got a nice mellow signal. My nugget turned out to weigh in about two dwt (pennyweight). Over the next few hours, we all picked up a few more nuggets apiece.

Most of the commercial mineral deposits are on the south and southwest part of the range between Minersville and Milford, though small amounts of gold and silver have also been found in iron-rich outcrops in the basalt to the south of Milford.

Each specimen is carefully examined to determine if it would be beneficial or not to use an acid treatment to reveal more of the gold.