May. 11 at 2:43 AM
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Think of a breccia pipe as a giant underground "vault" packed with crushed rock and high-grade minerals.
These vertical chimneys formed when explosive gases or hot fluids blasted through the earth, leaving behind a porous structure that acted like a sponge for gold, silver, and copper.
Decades ago, miners targeted these pipes, extracted the easy gold, and dumped the leftover sands into the pits at Skull Valley…the tailings.
Because old mining methods were inefficient, these sands still contain significant wealth. While the tailings are the immediate asset, the bank. The breccia pipes themselves are the vault, the original source of the mineralization.
Skull Valley sits in a structurally active mineral belt, making it a prime target for these concentrated "ore chimneys." However, since some pipes can be "barren" (empty of metals), the goal is to find the ones where the fluids actually settled.
https://nmcinc.com/web/skull-valley/
