Looks like the outcome of that trip was you encountered a Bad rock with nothing better to do in its existence than destroy your tire.

On the other hand, since we're dealing with three gold mining ghost town locations, you have to wonder if perhaps that was a Good rock that was actually a nice specimen.

Monte

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