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Rico Dolores River silver camp
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: assay crucibles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
An 1879 silver boom put smelters and saloons on the upper Dolores; river-margin fill and hillside dumps date the boom and leaner decades after.
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