Hi, I'm semi-new to prospecting, but have been into minerals since a young age. Well I bought property without much$ or availability, to my surprise I ended up in Siskiyou county, ca and on an exquisite natural seasonal water way for prospecting as well as found out there were 2 mines above on the mountain side. Although obvious past had stripped what they could they weren't interested in the small stuff nor Platinum, palladium or any of the such. So I started going at it once I found this info out... And to my much needed financial stability I believe I found something... I've done my research, panning, heating experiments, muriatic soaks, and so on so forth, and just today after a month or so I just saw Mica schist.... Google rules!!!! But I have read the usgs about the "mother load belt" and it intersects Mica schist, greenstone, limestone, shale, and serpentines, in quartz, but also can change the immediate host rock chemically with the gasious metal vapors as they cool. So without further ado...