Packsaddle Mountain Southern Slopes Placer

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Packsaddle Mountain Southern Slopes Placer

Gold Mining Site TX • Llano County County
Description
Fine placer gold in draws and gravel benches on the southern slopes of Packsaddle Mountain — below documented Spanish Colonial and Anglo mine shafts investigated since the 1970s.
Historical Notes
Field investigations on Packsaddle Mountain recorded deep shafts with side tunnels, modified natural caves, pick and drill marks, cut nails, and spoil piles on the southern ridge slopes. Spanish Colonial barras-and-pick workings, nineteenth-century Anglo tunnels, and early-1900s dynamite features overlap at the same sites. Gold in the Llano Uplift occurs as fine placer in slope gravels and as trace values in quartz-lead-silver lodes. Wikipedia and TSHA note Spanish gold mining before the Texas Revolution and renewed 1920s prospecting with no commercial production. Related gold_site entries "Packsaddle Mountain — Llano County Prospecting" and "Larimore Diggings — Packsaddle Mountain" document the district. Private ranch — no trespassing.
Status / Verification historical_site — Verified

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