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Clearly Rich #1 - #3 ±187 Acres Price: $45,000
Here, the road from Diggings Way comes down to the western creek drainage were there is a wet crossing. Notice the granite bedrock on the west.
A short flight up valley shows the granite bedrock on the left (west). The creek has abundant flow now. The fire did not come through this area.
The creek takes an elbow turn and appears to hit bedrock at the bottom. Notice the fracturing of the granite bedrock and imagine if that was under the current creek or paleo creek bottom elsewhere on the claim.
An overview shot looking south on the western half of the claim block. As you can see, the existing road (Diggings Way?) was cleared to provide a fire break, which seems to have worked quite well. There are no downed trees across the road. The upper portion of the claim still has the unburned Digger Pine forest. In the distance you can see where the fire stopped and the Clear Creek Road.
The Diggings Way Creek crossing of the western creek.
Way crossing of the western creek.
A low altitude drone shot of the Diggings Way crossing of the western creek. The soil off the road was saturated and other trucks trying to cross got stuck. However, once dried out, this would be a simple task to cross the creek. Also notice the cut-bank stream gravels. Notice the soils are brown, indicting a relative young age for the deposits. It appears the entire bank on the opposite side is remnant gravels.
Here the drone is over an extensive hydraulic mining cut. See these red soils? Those are unworked native Tertiary-age gravels. They were left behind by the past miners. These are targets of opportunity and one of the reasons why this claim is so valuable.
Here the drone is looking northward from over the hydraulic mine cut. Notice the remnant red soils that outline a small hill of unworked material. Also notice an exposure of those red soils in the creek drainage in the photo’s lower left.
Here the drone is looking south-southwestward and the southern end of Diggings Way. This area was burned by the fire but vegetation is rapidly coming back. Notice the road is clear of downed trees and access is good. Clear Creek Road in shown in the photo's upper left. Because the main Clear Creek drainage was made into at Recreational Area where not motorized equipment is allowed, you cannot access the southern par of the claims from Clear Creek Road. You must use Diggings Way from the north to access here by a vehicle.
This is an important photo. The drone is looking south at the southern portion of Diggings Way. At the top is Clear Creek Road and the northern boundary of the Recreational Area is where Diggings takes a left and heads east (left). Everything south is off limits and out of the claims. Also notice that the brush area is topographically higher than Diggings Way. This is both a natural remnant stream terrace boundary and where the historic miners floated a bucket-line dredge in the small creek drainage by Diggings Way. In a remarkable feat, they travelled up the creek for several hundred feet. Where they stopped is the beginning of a rich pay streak. Also notice that the old miners used sluice channels to mine the upper terrace. That is a horrible inefficient way to mine and likely left gobs of gold in its mining wake.
Here the drone is looking southeast over that remnant terrace surface. You can see more sluice channels and tailings mounds. I would wager there is unworked native soils on bedrock under some of those mounds.
Here the drone is looking northward at Diggings Way and where the bucket-line dredge stopped. I am not sure what is under the grassy cleared area but they might be unworked native gravels.
Here the drone is looking easter from the southeaster part of the claim block. Clear Creek Road is shown at the upper right. There are 3 remnant benches shown here, 1) is on Clear Creek Road including the green grassy area, 2) is the gray worked gravel area in the right-middle of the photos, and 3) is the greener vegetation on the photo’s left. You can see the red soils of the exposed headwall to the mining cut. Everything left of the red soil exposure is native gravels on bedrock.
Here is another look at the remnant native soils (red colored areas). The Recreational Area trail is shown in the lower left and marks the boundary of the claim block.
A view of the Recreational Area trail, which generally marks the boundary of the claims.
A view of the Recreational Area trail, which generally marks the boundary of the claims. Note that the native soils are on the claims!
Headwall to the unworked gravels. Notice the topographical relief suggest a large volume of the deposit. Also notice the small drainage cutting through the bluffs. I think I would dig at the base of that drainage right away!
A drone photo looking west-northwest across the end of Diggings Way, the remnant worked terrace deposits, and the remnant unworked native gravels bluff at the base of the distance hills. A spectacular mining opportunity that will last several lifetimes. |
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