After meeting for a briefing at the Barton Mines rockshop, we drove to Pit #1, which is open to tourists for fee collecting. Because we had special permission to visit pit #8-9, not normally open to the public, we parked above Pit #1 and walked down the access road.
Here are some "tourists" at work using the buckets provided to wash gravel left from loading the trucks when the mine was in operation. The idea is to wash the gravel and then dump it out to look for "gemmy" garnet fragments.
A garnetiferous amphibolite boulder at Pit #1 shows the large pyrope / almandine garnet porphyroblasts that the Gore Mountain mine is famous for.