Don't want to bust the Fun Bubble but your snooping around on Semi or Private Properties.
If these claims are Patented there Private.
If there just under Mineral Claim you can go to jail just using your metal detectors being blamed on looking for gold.
I always stop on locations like this and have a look around.
I never so much as touch any equipment or enter buildings .
The equipment in those photos can be brought back to operation in just a mater of hours.
The Trammel looks like it was used last year.
The shaker table looked like it was still Serviceable.
If the equipment was NOT on a Active Claim, it would not be there. The BLM or Forest would have taken it.
You all need to read the post I did about people playing on active claims. There in Jail or Out looking at some major fines for Theft of Mineral Claims.
Yes it's a Federal Crime to do a mineral Trespass.
They can take your Vehicle, Guns, Any Equipment used in the Crime. ( Yes Crime ).
You can loose your 2nd Amendment Right to own a Fire Arm.
It looks to me you was on someones claim in the off time.
All equipment in the photo's was serviceable. They still had Grease on the Pulleys.
The Belts was still in place.
Good God!
You and your girlFriend had a good time on someones Hard Work and Time.
If he or she came along you may have been looking down the wrong end of a Shot Gun.
Detained awaiting the State Police to show up.
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