Golden Wolf #4 Mining Claim

60 Acres

CAMC# 0290791

*SOLD*

This Wolf Creek flows east to west along Highway 89 between Canyon Dam and Greenville and drains the highly mineralized marine and volcanic rocks of the Shoe Fly, Sierra Buttes, Peale and Arlington Formations, which spans ages of 425-260 million years, and are collectively referred to as the Sierrian Eastern Belt Assemblage. Bedrock gold mineralization is found in several forms, including, quartz veins and pods, disseminated aureoles, and scarns. Hardrock mines, such as the Goldstripe, Clear Creek and Davis Mines, produced thousands of pounds of gold from these rocks, and the headwaters Wolf Creek begins in the vicinity of these mines. Wolf Creek gold is coarse-grained and very bright.

The Golden Wolf #4 placer claim is the dumping ground of the Wolf Creek gravels and cobbles. The creek exits the mountains and begins to flow across the valley floor, dropping out all of its coarse-grained and heavy material and forming large gravel deposits. Anceint floods have branched out from the active channel, scouring out vegetation and creating abandoned channels that are dry during the late summer and autumn months and are ripe for prospecting. Remnant terrace deposit are common on the valley walls and create excellent high-bank opportunities, many of which have never been explored. This claim has a good campsite with 2wd access to the creek’s edge. It is ideal site for a small or large trommel-type operation.

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