Rocks of the Patsy Mine Area

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Health & Science Do It Yourself Geology Gold Lava

35.725112, -114.851156
The Patsy Mine is said to be a cinnibar mercury mine so I still have not located it. The big gold in the Eldorado mines were found in the shallow quartz monzonites. If the Nelson Pluton was rotated 90 degrees with extension then the shallow gold was just one side with another side down below.

Free Geologic Map. (at the very south map edge and east of Hiway 60):
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1267/a/

The Flying Burrito Brothers on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ER5H0VYts

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