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To: The Vet who wrote (33701)	1/3/2005 3:59:34 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 39344

Yes, the native rock formations are called "unconsolidated". Really, they are just mud. The call them names like the Fishscale etc and date them at 150 million years and the like, but they are hardly rock. It is about the only place that you can get mud stuck to your boots that is a 100 million years old and older. The only hard rock that I saw in that area was the limestone and it was kind of crumbly. There is some gravel in some of the rivers there, but I doubt that you can get permission to dig it. There may be buried placers that have genuine hard rock gravel but they would have to be washed of their fines. EC<:-}