Red Mountain Creek

Historical Record

Red Mountain Creek was a 20-acre unpatented placer claim in Washoe County, Nevada. Located on Red Mountain Creek, this claim offered placer gold potential with excellent access.

The Red Mountain Creek claims are four conjoining, 20-acre placer claims on the Red Mountain Creek, agold, silver, andgem-producing riverflowing off the colorful Calico Mountain Range.

Twenty-six miles from Gerlach and even closer to the popular Burning Man camps in the Black Rock Desert, theRed Mountain Creek claims hold a unique spot in the world; Wedged between the activegold and silver Hog Ranch mineto the North, and thegold and silver Mountain View mineto the South, Red Mountain Creek claims sit right in the middle of these two active mines on the same mountain range.

Better yet, both of these mines owe their fortune to fault lines of the famousNorthern Nevada Rift, which have made many-a miner rich. This rift allowed hot, mineral-rich fluid to be pushed into cracks left by the fault and deposited these minerals into a now highly silicated and brecciated rhyolite host rock. These minerals left by the Northern Nevada rift have always includedplentyof theprecious three:Gold, silver, and copper, left within a crystal quartz/calcite matrix.

The rocks that come tumbling off Red Mountain and into the creek show evidence of beingthat very same gold and silver impregnated rockfound atboth the Hog Ranch and the Mountain View mine!

Claim Features (Historical)

• 20 acres of unpatented placer ground
• Located in Nevada, Washoe County, Red Mountain District
• Primary commodity: Gold
• Historic mining area with proven mineral potential
• Sold through Mountain Man Mining™