The fifth point of the Malcantone Mining Park Trail is the Aurifodine di Garavée.

Auriphodines are open-cast mines dating back to the Celto-Roman Iron Age.

The attached document (link to document) details the cultivation system of these mining sites.

The purpose of the auriphodines was the extraction of various minerals:

• iron for the construction of various tools and for weapons
• quartz from which silicium was extracted to produce glass.
• gold that was contained in the sands of these alluvial and moraine deposits.

Cultivation began at the lowest point of the alluvial deposit. Stones (pebbles) containing iron and quartz were sorted and the other stones were piled up to the right and left. This formed piles of stones interspersed with a depression at the bottom of which sand and gravel, as well as water, surfaced. These sands were washed, and gold was extracted.

On the piles of pebbles, circular depressions can be seen these are the remains of rudimentary furnaces where ferrous stones and those containing quartz were first fired.

Initial archaeological research in the immediate vicinity of these auriphodines revealed objects dating back to Roman times. These are a bronze spoon, a decorated bronze piece, and some nails. These objects testify to the fact that in that distant era there was a settlement probably directly connected with mining activity.

Other objects from more recent times (horseshoe, 19th-century coin of the Kingdom of Italy, etc.) have been found along the path leading towards Bombinasco, indicating the important historical communication route between the south and north of the Alps that ran through this region until the late Middle Ages.