Remote Prospecting?

[Geowizard]

The response;


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[Geowizard]

Don't go away! there's more!

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[Leonard]

It's strange how things loop around. Lester Cobb lived 3 houses away from me before he moved to Alaska. I spent 4 weeks on Minook Creek in 06, 07, and 08 at Mark Exeter's place on Minook Creek. I left Minook and went to Nome on my "famous" Nome expedition" leaving from there. I have a lot of video taken from there. Did some productive dredging over the years there Helped Norma build a log cabin and helped chink one of Lester's cabins and stayed in the cabin he built on Minook.
Leonard

[Leonard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YECdnwkq0&t=21s

This was taken about a mile from Euerka. Gold was from about an 8 hour run.

[Jim_Alaska]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YECdnwkq0&t=21s

This was taken about a mile from Euerka. Gold was from about an 8 hour run.

I've been to Eureka and Manley, but never actually mined there. All I had in those days was a a little 2 1/2" dredge.

Leonard, in 06 and 07 I was still in Alaska. 07 was the year I brought Marcie to Alaska and married her. She was a great help and resource in my mining education.

[Jim_Alaska]

Chuck, when you mentioned Rampart, Manley, Tofty and Minook! it reminded me if Livengood. Way back when; Livengood was rich for the old timers. Livengood is right along the Elliot Hwy. on the way to the places you mentioned.

All the easy gold they got. But while I lived there, a big mining company started a large operation, The gold was deep; 100ft. They used D10's and ripped through the winter, stock piling it to run in summer, because of limited water and easier to rip, even while frozen. Livengood Creek is very small and in late summer, almost dries up.

Flint Greaswood, a member of this forum Drift mines off of the Elliot Hwy. just outside of Fox. Another member of this forum, who just moved to Fairbanks from Nevada, also prospects out there.

[Geowizard]

Leonard,

Wow! I am glad to see you chime in on this!


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[Geowizard]

Lost Gold;


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[Leonard]

Lester's Lost Creek Ranch was a big operation. Not for gold but his commercial guide/hunting operation. He even had an air strip and several cabins. I was told that all creek from Lost Creek to Rampart had been claimed up by the Native Americans. Down stream from Lester's main lodge about a mile was another small creek that supposedly fed from the mountain on the east side that was supposedly the source of the gold in Minook.

I was told a story that Lester was working gold near Rampart just off of the Yukon when T\the Native American's claimed up the creek where Lester was working he pushed up a big pit and ran all of the equipment in it and buried it all. I never asked Lester about it or talked to anyone that could verify it but that sounds like Lester.

We did do a little dredging downstream at Slate Creek. John Schilling would be a source of knowledge for the late 80's.
Leonard

[Geowizard]

Leonard,

Thanks for sharing that information!

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