Economic information
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Development status |
Occurrence |
Commodity type |
Metallic |
Deposit size |
Small |
Significant |
No |
Discovery year |
1901 |
Year of first production |
1903 |
Land status
Ownership category |
BLM Administrative Area |
Comments on the production information
- PRODUCTION 1903-1909 WAS VALUED AT $30,000.00; EQUIVALENT TO 1,450 FINE OZ AU AT 1909 PRICE OF GOLD [$20.67/FINE OZ]; NO DATA ON TOTAL PRODUCTION
Comments on the workings information
- DRIFTS ON BURIED CHANNEL DEPOSIT [20 FT TO BEDROCK]; PRESENT STREAM CHANNEL AND OLD BURIED CHANNEL CONSIDERED TO BE MINED OUT IN 1937; GRAVELS WERE PERMANENTLY FROZEN
Comments on development
- MINED BY SMALL-SCALE OPERATORS 1903-1937, PROBABLY NOT CONTINUOUSLY; MOST ACTIVE IN EARLY 1900'S; SOME "RECENT" (POST-WW2) MINING