These are some photos taken at a mine turned tourist attraction. I got into some really good conversation with one of the owners about the prehistoric miners that worked the mines long before the 1800's They gave me some privy insight on copper chunks that had been found this spring by a private individual that searches the country side for these glacial drift pieces of copper. The chunks you see on the pallets are large, weighing around 500 pounds each. The mine owner buys them from the guy that finds them. She didn't disclose how much she paid for them but offered to say the currant rate for scrap copper is $2.00 a pound. The mine owner in turn sells them as "Specimin" pieces to museums. The copper in this area is referred to as "Native Copper" and is 95 percent pure.
The first photo is of smaller pieces.
The second is of a piece cut in half to show solid copper. This is how they are when found, solid copper.
On the way back home we stopped in Colfax, WS to meet up with the publisher of the magazine "Ancient American" My daughter arranged for us to meet him as a birthday gift to me (July 6) I'm totally interested in the ancient inhabitants of North America
The one photo shows 2 copper spear heads that he had found in Wisconsin. The other photo is of artifacts found in Illinois.
More photos of the artifacts:
These are some things that are found laying around from time past on the land around the mine site:
