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Im jamie colby, and today im driving along the Columbia Mountain range in esmeralda county, nevada. Im going to meet a man whose strange inheritance is a patch of semiabandoned ghost town, population 268. But it used to be nevadas largest and richest city. Why . Well, they tell me it has something to do with the towns name. Welcome. To goldfield. My name is jon aurich, and i inherited a gold mine. Jon, hi. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. So, i made it to the middle of nowhere. Can you imagine inheriting a gold mine . The heir, jon aurich, shows me around. Can i walk right up to it . You can. How far down is that . 1,650 feet. Whoa its called the Florence Mine, named after the daughter of an old prospector who discovered it in 1903. This is the original shaft of the florence. Bureau of mines estimates about 17 miles of workings underground. So, how much gold came out of this mine . About 9 million, and that was at 20. 67 an ounce. Jon tells me that to understand the b
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With. Holy christmas. Im jamie colby, and today im driving along the Columbia Mountain range in esmeralda county, nevada. Im going to meet a man whose strange inheritance is a patch of semiabandoned ghost town, population 268. But it used to be nevadas largest and richest city. Why . Well, they tell me it has something to do with the towns name. Welcome. To goldfield. My name is jon aurich, and i inherited a gold mine. Jon, hi. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. So, i made it to the middle of nowhere. Can you imagine inheriting a gold mine . The heir, jon aurich, shows me around. Can i walk right up to it . You can. How far down is that . 1,650 feet. Whoa its called the Florence Mine, named after the daughter of an old prospector who discovered it in 1903. This is the original shaft of the florence. Bureau of mines estimates about 17 miles of workings underground. So, how much gold came out of this mine . About 9 million, and that was at 20. 67 an ounce. Jon tells me th