Gold Exploration

Yellow Creek Bar
Placer Mining Claim

40 Acres

Price: $5,500

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Yellow Creek is one of the most beautiful creeks in Plumas County and Advanced Geologic was fortunate to acquire this mining claim. Yellow Creek is located in western Plumas County and flows from Humbug Valley into the North Fork of the Feather River near Beldon (just below the famous Rich Bar discovery). PG&E maintains a superb campground in Humbug Valley that has been the summer home to many miners and prospectors of Yellow Creek.

Yellow Creek has been historically mined since the bonanza was discovered at Rich Bar. Tailing piles are scattered about the drainage and there is an old flume along the east bank, but clearly the old prospectors did not get it all. The gold in Yellow Creek is bright and plentiful! It is generally chunky from nearby bedrock source. Yellow Creek is noted for its exquisite Fall colors, and the creek name comes not the color of the leaves, but its GOLD!

The Yellow Creek Bar placer mining claim is an excellent claim with tremendous opportunity for gold prospecting. It is located 10 miles south of Highway 89 and two miles south of the Yellow Creek Campground on Yellow Creek Road. Motor Homes and RVs can easily navigate Yellow Creek Road to the campground; however, you will need a 4wd to drive down a steep two-track access road to the creek. The access road leads right to a sweet camp site along the creek just south of the southern claim boundary. It is an easy, short walk along the creek trail to the claim.

The claim attributes are

  • A sweet camp site just down stream of the claim.
  • 4wd or quad is required to camp site.
  • Local gravels on bedrock.
  • Moderate to large gravel bars.
  • Many remnant terrace deposits.
  • Tree roots & grass clumps, downed trees, logs, etc.
  • Medium to deep water.
  • Mining level: Recreational to advanced.
  • Quiet and safe area; very beautiful.
  • Superb maintained campground two miles from the claim.
  • Great fishing and nearby boating at Lake Almanor.
  • Children and senior friendly - fun for all!
  • Nearest store: Prattville General Store (few amenities but cute). Chester is 16 miles away on the western shores of Lake Almanor.

The bedrock is Feather River ultramafic belt or serpentine. Mineralized up-drainage rocks include marine and volcanic sediments of the Shoe Fly Formation and undifferentiated Triassic marine and volcanic rocks. The Melones fault or contact with the Feather River ultramafic belt and the Shoe Fly Formation crops out a short distance upstream of the claim. The fault is associated with high-grade gold mineralization here and elsewhere in the northern Sierra. The Shoe Fly Formation is also a huge source of gold in Yellow Creek.

Yellow Creek maintains a consistent flow of between 1-3 feet deep nearly all year and has excellent fishing. Excellent foot trails service both side of the river and downed trees serve as bridges across the stream.

The creek gently meanders through a straight, south-facing portion of the valley littered with boulders and a few downed trees and logs. Broken and fractured bedrock is exposed in a number of locations and there is a prominent, unexplored clay ledge. Prospectors up stream have found nuggets lying right on top of this clay ledge. Under the clay ledge are old, unexplored gravels.

Several locations show the high-bank deposits consist of a thin veneer of recent flood deposits that are underlain by older "unworked" stream deposits. These floods also scoured the old remnant terrace deposits, exposing tree roots that have held onto their gravels for several decades. Older remnant terrace deposits exist higher up the slope and are equally unexplored. The relic flume was breached by the old prospectors to wash these gravel deposits into their sluice boxes. Prospectors armed with metal detectors will be keen on those targets.

While there are locations where gravels on bedrock is readily accessible, other places it may be 4-8 feet below the water. For this reason much of Yellow Creek has not been mined very well in the past and experienced miners with a 5" or larger dredge could reap some huge rewards. Hence the prospecting skills required for the Yellow Creek Bar placer mining claim is recreational to advanced.

The snow usually melts off in late May or early June, which is just in time for the opening of dredging season on the creek (last weekend in May to the second week of October.

This is a great site for not only families, but experienced prospectors as well. Miners and prospectors will have a life-time of opportunities before this claim is played out.


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Pinpoint is on USF Road 26N262 @ Northern Boundary of claim.


Estimated GPS Coordinates:
Please adjust GPS to the following Datum & Coordinate display:
Datum: NAD83/WGS84
Coordinates: UTM
Zone 10

Latitude
Longitude
Elevation
Northeast Corner Boundary:
649635mE
4438883mN
4267 ft.
Northwest Corner Boundary:
649184mE
4438874mN
4252 ft.
Southwest Corner Boundary:
649193mE
4438446mN
4199 ft.
USF Road @ Southeast Corner Boundary:
649613mE
4438454mN
4305 ft.
Yellow Creek @ Southern Boundary:
649456mE
4438451mN
4155 ft.
Yellow Creek @ Northern Boundary:
649529mE
4438881mN
4152 ft.
USF Road @ Northern Boundary:
649716mE
4438884mN
4348 ft.

Standard Information

Yellow Creek Bar placer mining claim is a non-patented federal mining claim and you will need to file appropriate paperwork to hold the property every year. Annual tax assessment on the property is approximately $1.12/acre.

Upon payment, the mineral claim will be transferred via a notarized Quitclaim notice filed in your name with Plumas County and the Bureau of Land Management. Limited payment terms and conditions are available; information available on request.

Advanced Geologic has an exceptional automatic claim notice filing service that will maintain your annual filings for any claim in the United States. Advanced Geologic reminds you that you MUST file annual notices with both the county in which the claim is located AND with the Bureau of Land Management. There are NO exceptions and errors will lead to the loss of your claim! Are your claims filed correctly?

Advanced Geologic is a professional geologic consulting firm located in Chester, California. We not only sell quality mining claims, but we also help people work their claims. Our experience in resource evaluations, compliance and permitting and claim portfolio management allows our clients and buyers to go for the GOLD.

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The four top pictures below were taken in late summer of 2022, after the single largest wildfire in the state's history. The Dixie Fire devastated much of Plumas County. These pictures show that new growth is starting to come back and take over the area. These claims might be burnt out now, but they will be magnificent once again within a few years. In the meantime, the area is rich for prospecting. We have current clients finding more open ground than ever before. Get out and get that GOLD! 

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