GOLD MINE Historic Moose Creek MT Texas Frank Gold Placer Gold Mining Claim

Description

Historic Texas Frank
20 Acre Placer Claim - Moose Creek District - Silver Bow County, Montana
Presenting the Historic Texas Frank Placer Mining Claim for sale, a 20 Acre Unpatented Placer Mining Claim. The claim is located just outside of Melrose, Montana. MT105296195 This is a third party sale. The owner is moving to Alaska and is no longer able to use the claim so he has asked us to sell it for him.
This is a remote Montana gold mine. The Texas Frank Placer Gold Claim offers impressive mining opportunities. An extensive amount of gravel bars as well as the natural streambed support productive gold recovery. The claim is suited for most types of gold mining activities from panning, sluicing and high-banking to metal detecting, dowsing and more. Moose Creek runs through the middle of the claim, provides plenty of year round water for all your mining needs. During surveying gold was easily found in the material by panning. The valley bottom is old river bed material. The higher benches also hold old river bed material. The claim boasts excellent access and does get visitors driving through on the road. The claim was originally surveyed and sampled for rich, free gold deposits in the gravels. There are plenty of areas to camp near this claim. This is a unique claim that is in a valley of old river bed.
The creek bed is over 600 feet on this claim and there is water year round. It is likely there is some native silver, sapphires, and possibly some relics to be found on the claim but the primary commodity will be gold. The road to the claim is accessible from May through snowfall, normally late November. The road is maintained and is in good condition. This is not a claim to pass up!
Moose Creek offers a wealth of gravel bars and hard-packed streambed; ideal spots to high-bank, sluice, metal detect, or pan. It is likely there has been some work done after 1900 based on the remnants and items seen in the area. It is estimated by the surveyors that the claim has been worked intermittently in the early 1900's. No effort to mine for many decades is evident. Moose Creek is known for gold from the upper mines flowing down and depositing in the lower stretches of the creek. The mines in the upper Moose Creek at Moosetown were incredibly rich. There is plenty of room to setup your sluice or highbanker and shovel material right next to it or bring it from the valley floor that is the old river bed. There is plenty of opportunity here!
There is direct road access to this claim and room for staging, parking and other operations. This is the very last claim available on Moose Creek. All the others have sold and there is no open ground for more claims. Above these claims is wilderness and no mining or mining claims can be staked in the wilderness. Don't miss out on this historic creek. Get this claim and get the gold that has been washing down through the wilderness for more than a hundred years. This is an unpatented mining claim for sale. Mineral rights only for recreational mining. The land is public land. This is not a homestead or land for sale.
The best gold is on bedrock. Moose Creek is one of the creeks in the district that was mined by hand in the late 1800's. There is still good gold in the creek, benches and on bedrock on this claim.
The Bureau of Mines has estimated that demonstrated U.S. reserves of gold are 85 million ounces. Approximately one-half of the total resources are estimated to be by-product gold, while 40% of the remaining one-half (56 million ounces) could be mined for gold alone ... Most U.S. gold resources are in the nation's western states. About 80% of the U.S. gold resources are estimated to be in Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana and Washington. (Earthsearch, Inc. 1983)
Overview of the Mines
The Texas Frank Mine is in an area with rich gold mining history. Estimates by Lyden (1948, p. 98-103) suggest that placer production before 1904 may have exceeded 120,000 ounces. But as with all old mines and mining districts in the Western U.S., the old timers NEVER got it all!
We sell a lot of mining claims and everyone tells us how happy they are with them. People first want the gold for the value but once they get out to their own claim they love the freedom they have to work and enjoy the great outdoors. Don't wait, get your own gold mine before it's too late. The Texas Frank mine is located in the northeast quarter of section 23. It is the closest claim available to Melrose on Moose Creek. Texas Frank claim is about 5700 feet in altitude. "The earliest developments, the Harvey, Day, and Ben Seymore lodes were discovered in 1867 on the bench north of Moose Creek. These mines produced incredibly rich gold ore ..."(Wolle 1963).
While it is sometimes said old mines have been 'worked out' as the saying means there is no gold left, the truth is "it is better to say they are worked over; it is also true that the primitive methods used and the wasteful haste to get rich indulged in, left much of the gold in the ground, so that improved methods ... will give even better results than those first obtained." (MBMG Open Report 466)
Montana is ranked 7th by the USGS for total gold production in the US and has 31 mining districts. Gold production for the 1800's to 1968 is 17.8 million ounces and large amounts of gold have been mined from 1968 to present. Geologists have predicted that based on the past and the geology of Montana that several large gold and silver deposits will be found and developed in the future.
Details about the Mine:
Access to the Mine
You can drive a full size truck to the mine.
Tailing Present
None. Loose gravels in the creek bed of small pebbles to larger boulders. Boulders are great places for the gold to hide. Benches on both sides of the creek are virgin ground.
Depth / Length
Over 600 feet of creek bed gravels. 1320 feet side to side with gold bearing benches.
Minerals in the Mine
Historically mined for gold. Minerals of sapphire, quartz, garnet, pyrite, galena, silver, black sands with rare earth minerals would be expected.
Foot traffic at the mine
Some
Last Worked
Unknown.
Number of Mines
1 Placer
Nearest city with amenities
Melrose, approximately 10.5 miles
Access to the Claim
A good dirt road breaks off from the Interstate and runs all the way to the claim.
Parking and Staging on the Claim
Claim is situated so it allows for parking of several vehicles if desired.
Resources
Year round water, grasses, sage and trees
Structures on claim
None
Elevation
Aprox. 5700 feet
Photos
All the gold flows into the creek from mines above and enters this claim. There are many great gold traps in the creek on this claim.
This is the perfect place to mine undisturbed by yourself.
Or bring the whole family and have a lot of fun in the great outdoors!
Over 600 feet of creek bed to mine and 20 Acres of gold bearing material
You won't find claims closer to Melrose on Moose Creek. They just don't exist.
Both the bench and creek bed hold gold and are well worth your efforts.
There is plenty of gravel in the creek bed as well as the benches which are virgin ground.
Climate / Weather
USGS Information
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Operation Type
Placer
Development Status
Past Producer
Commodity type
Metallic
Commodities
Gold- Primary
Nearby Scientific Data
Pre-Belt gneiss, schist, and related rocks
References
USGS Database - 10097864
Mining District Information
Moose Creek District Information
The Moose Creek mining district is located on the west slope of the Highland Mountains along Moose Creek, a west flowing tributary of the Big Hole River. The mines within the Moose Creek district were north and northwest of Moosetown, one of a number of small mining camps in the Highlands. The earliest developments, the Harvey, Day, and Ben Seymore lodes were discovered in 1867 on the bench north of Moose Creek. These mines produced incredibly rich gold ore, two 10-ton lots yielded 0 per ton, although they were not so rich as those on Moose Creek (Wolle 1963).
Moosetown, sprang to life around 1866 but never developed beyond a few log cabins (Hamilton 1977). In the summer of 1871, these sluice placers were returning per man per day in gold. The next year the total placer output was listed at ,000. The most important mine in the Twentieth century was the Gold Hill or Free Gold property (Raymond 1872; Sahinen 1935;Wolle 1963).
Sahinen (1935) places the district at the head of Moose Creek adjacent to but on the other side of the hill from the Highland district... the district as defined by Sahinen (1935) and includes the Gold Hill mine, which the AMRB (1994) boundaries place in the Highland district. The Gold Hill is generally included as part of the Moose Creek developments.
MOOSE CR AND TRIBUTARIES HAVE YIELDED SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PLACER GOLD (MBMG MEM 9).
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Sales Information
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