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Old 02-08-2021, 08:44 PM   #1575
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Re: Random Photos ‘You took’

Hiking on the C&O Canal Towpath last Saturday we came upon an old mine site across the canal I never knew about. We spotted a mine entrance cut into solid rock and what was left of the narrow gauge grade so we hiked over there. I don't know a lot about geology but we think it may have been a copper mine. My sister knows more about Blue Ridge Mt. geology and said the white (not quartz) in the rock and this blue is found when there is copper in the rock. Here is some of the blue
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