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River of Gold #2 |
River of Gold #2 40 Acres BLM CAMC #291747 Price: $2,500 A great claim with lots of potential. Access to the claim is a short, easy walk from a 2wd accessible parking and camping area just north of the claim (shown to the right). The claim is also a short drive from the Yellow Creek campground. The bedrock is meta-sediments and volcanic rocks of the Shoe Fly Fm. Mineralized up-drainage rocks include these and undifferentiated Triassic marine and volcanic rocks. The Melones fault or contact with the Feather River ultramafic belt (serpentine) is a couple miles down stream. The claim is located at the headwaters to Yellow Creek valley. It contains ample gravels and cobbles that would be ideal for a small trommel-oriented operation or metal detecting prospector. The stream banks are lined with willows and grasses that tend to trap and hold the gold until the most vigorous floods. The main channel splits and comes together further down valley. A few large boulders and a down tree provide plenty of near-surface traps. High-bank opportunities present themselves with numerous locations of tree roots in remnant terrace deposits. An old flume that serviced the 1800s down-valley mining operations crosses the claim, exposing areas of bedrock just a short distance below the surface. With a little work and a metal detector, a prospector could discover a number of excellent opportunities, including an old channel deposit. The claim attributes are
Claim Georeferences
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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 River of Gold #2 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. Standard Information The Location Notice for the River of Gold #2 placer mining claims have been recorded at the Plumas County Recorder's Office (see registered number above) and the Bureau of Land Management federal mining claim number is pending. It is a non-patented federal mining claim. Fees are current for 2012 and you will need to file appropriate paperwork to hold the property every year thereafter. Annual tax assessment on the property is approximately $1.12 an acre. Upon payment, the mineral claim will be transferred via a notarized Quitclaim notice filed in your name with Plumas County and the BLM. A $150 fee is assessed to handle the transfer. Limited payment terms and conditions are available; information available on request. Advanced Geologic has an exceptional automatic claim notice filing system 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 by the appropriate dates. 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. Interested? Send us an email or call. |
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