Near Nipton, Calif, UNTAPPED GOLD DEPOSITS, Castle Peaks, Mojave Dez, RARE, maps

Description

Rare
first edition pinpoints untapped
gold in California's Mojave Desert
Deposits are just south of tiny town of Nipton, near
the Nevada border; report is in very good condition
High-tech methods used; other mines are also described
T
his rare first-edition report (and BIG spearate map) locate UNMINED gold deposits in California's Mojave Desert, just south of Nipton, near the California-Nevada border.
Small detail of color map from report shows areas in red that have best probability of gold and silver (Au and Ag) deposits.
Mines are also discussed at length in the text. Landmarks and mine names are intentionally blurred in scans to protect location of deposits. Landmarks and mine names
are not
blurred on real map.
That's right. This report tells you pretty much EXACTLY where top geologists think there is gold. Not just old abandoned mines, but UNMINED UNTOUCHED gold, just waiting for you to pull it rom the ground.
What's the catch? There is none. Not many of these reports were printed, so not many know about the exact locations.
These newer USGS reports — all with the same cover — represent some of the BEST and MOST ACCURATE info on some of the LEAST-known gold deposits in California. Prospectors and collectors who pass these reports over — simply because they are newer — are making a HUGE mistake. Many of these USGS reports are rarer than reports 100 years old. Very few of these were printed.
Not sure where these deposits are? See the map at the end of the ad. Still not sure? Grab a copy of the Auto Club San Bernardino County road map. As you can see, from that map, you could swing by and have a look on your way to Vegas. Who knows, you might luck out; hit the big vein; and roll into Vegas with enough gold to buy your own hotel.
Some mines are OPEN to prospecting
And many of these mines in these books are on BLM or public land and COMPLETELY open to exploring and prospecting. They are MILES from any population center, so there's no one to bother you no matter what you do (we are NOT condoning anything illegal). No fences, no no-trespassing signs, no barking dogs.
It is EXTREMELY likely that much gold and silver is still waiting to be extracted by some guy who decided to dig when everyone else sits around, drinks beer and says, "It can't be done."
Easier than going to Alaska
It can be done! You've watched the COMPLETE idiots on the Gold Rush Alaska TV show finally strike it rich. There is no need to travel to Alaska when HUGE riches could be waiting just a couple hundred miles north of L.A.
The untapped deposits in this report — plus four other mines — are plainly described in the text and even more plainly marked on the maps.
Yes, the area is a bit remote, but where did you expect to find undiscovered gold in California? At the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa?
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4WD vehicle not needed
Don't have four-wheel-drive? Not to worry. Much of the area in this report is within striking distance of graded dirt roads. And it's a cinch to correlate the area in this report with the Auto Club San Bernardino County road map that I mentioned before.
According to this obscure report, there is a "moderate potential for silver" at one mine and "moderate potential for gold and silver" near another mine. The authors — a group of government geologists — exactly pinpoint the mines most likely to
contain these deposits.
Never before on ebay
I have been buying and selling mining items on ebay for 15 years, and I have never seen another one of these offered for sale. This 17-page report is considered primary source material; much of this info is available
nowhere else
. And the report itself is in beautiful, near-fine condition, one of the best copies that I have seen. So buy it now or forever hold your peace. Once it's gone, it's gone.
Researchers find gold and silver
Researchers collected 179 samples for the report, 31 of them from the Jumping Scorpion mine. Values ranged from 0.4 to 17.1 ounces of silver per ton of ore. That's right, 17.1 ounces of silver per ton! We're not talking useless trace amounts here. In fact, there might be significantly more silver: "The two west drifts may not have been driven far enough to intersect [the ore zone] that was stoped on the 54-foot level. More [ore] could exist in the fault zone along the the strike or at a greater depth."
Text explains how this isostatic residual gravity map locates gold and silver deposits. Don't worry. You don't have to interpret the map. Another map shows you exactly where the deposits are.
Bureau of Mines records show that seven ounces of gold, 950 ounces of silver, 7,671 pounds of lead and 650 pounds of copper were extracted from this mine just from 1942–1948.
And that's just one mine. At the other one, "on the basis of its mining history and
favorable geochemical values, that part of the study area near the Slappy White mine is
assigned a moderate resource potential for gold and silver."
(The mine names above are fictitious. I changed the names to protect the identity and location of the real mines. You'll have to buy the report to find out the real names and locations.)
Mine locations described
in text and on the maps
Yes, the authors show you exactly where these two mines are, and they also locate three mining districts just outside the study area — the Castle Peaks Wilderness Study Area, just south of Nipton Road, where it crosses into Nevada and becomes Route 164.
All of these sites are just the thing for history buffs, bottle collectors, photographers, geologists, hikers, offroaders, rockhounds, prospectors, metal detector enthusiasts — just about anyone interested in exploring or learning about old mine sites in this historic area, amid some of the high desert's most spectacular scenery. (See the "where is it" section and the map at the end of this ad for a more exact location of the study area.)
High-tech prospecting methods used
And the authors of this report didn't just wander around willy-nilly in this part of the desert, digging a hole here and banging on a coupla rocks there. They used some of the most cutting-edge high-tech methods for locating mineral deposits: six-step semiquantitative emission-spectographic techniques, isostatic residual-gravity mapping and aeromagnetic surveys.
Not to worry, though. The report isn't indecipherable geo-babble. The easy-to-use maps show areas where gold is likely to occur. However, because this is a book about mining
and
geology, it does contain technical details about geology.
Nearby mining districts include the Crescent Peak mining district to the northeast, the Hart mining district to the southeast and the Vanderbilt mining district to the south. They are located on the maps in the report and discussed in the text. All three have been active since the late 1800s. At the time of the report in May 1982, mining companies were evaluating the area north of the Vanderbilt mines in the southwest part of the study area.
To see just how much real estate this report covers, see the last scan in this ad. And as I said a couple of times already, roads in this area are plainly marked on the Auto Club of Southern California San Bernardino County road map, so that road map can be used to correlate exact mileages to mines and other geologic features on the maps from this book.
Where is it?
The Castle Peaks Wilderness Study Area is just south of Nipton Road, where it crosses into Nevada and becomes Route 164 (see map toward end of ad).
The area is in the New York Mountains, north of the ghost towns of Ivanpah and Barnwell, north of Fourth of July Canyon, Lanfair Valley, the Piute Range, Sagamore Canyon and the Castle Mountains. It's west of Piute Valley and east of Ivanpah Valley, south of the Lucy Gray Range and the McCullough Range.
The Castle Peaks area is right on the eastern edge of the East Mojave National Preserve, northwest of Laughlin, NV, and Bullhead City, AZ.
Nearest supply points of any size are Baker, california, 50 miles to the west via I-15 and Searchlight, Nevada, about 30 miles to the east via Nevada Route 164. With the exception of these two towns, the Castle Peaks area is almost entirely unpopulated Mojave Desert wilderness, truly in the middle of nowhere. But as I said, many of the roads in the area are drivable with just highish clearance; you don't usually need four-wheel-drive.
San Bernardino County is in southeastern California, bounded on the east by Arizona and Nevada; on the south by Riverside County; on the west by Los Angeles and Kern counties; and on the north by Inyo County.
The report:
Mineral Resources of the Castle Peaks Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California
, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1713-A, first edition and out of print, 1986, by David A. Miller, James G. Frisken and Robert C. Jachens (USGS) and Diann D. Gese (U.S. Bureau of Mines); published by Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 12 pages, 8.5 by 11 inches, with one big separate map in the report's rear pocket. Stapled binding, stiff paper covers; report is in near-new excellent condition.
As always, I am
extremely
conservative about rating book condition and very detailed in listing any potential flaw, no matter how slight. You get what you pay for. If you want a trashed book — filled with scribbled notes, dog-eared pages and underlined passages that the seller just "somehow forgot" to tell you about in his ad — then look elsewhere on ebay.
Detail of map from book shows location of Castle Peaks Wilderness Study Area in relation to Nipton, CA, and Route 164, the road to Searchlight, NV, just off the map to the right (east). Landmarks here can be easily correlated to Auto Club San Bernardino County map
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Do not
wait until after you've bought this to ask if it has a map to Michael Jackson's house. (It doesn't.)
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Good luck and thanks for looking!
Nearby counties
Counties adjacent to San Bernardino are Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Kern and Inyo. Nearby counties include Imperial, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kings, Tulare and Mono. Other San Bernardino County cities and interesting sites (besides the ones previously mentioned in this ad) include: Adelanto, Alta Loma, Amboy, Apple Valley, Barstow, Barnwell, Baker, Big Bear Lake, Bloomington, Broadwell Dry Lake, Cadiz, Calico, Chino, Cima, Colton, Cucamonga, East Mojave, Essex, Etiwanda, Fontana, Forest Falls, George Air Force Base, Goffs, Grand Terrace, Havasu Landing, Helendale, Hesperia, Highland, Hinkley, Ivanpah, Joshua Tree National Monument, Kelso Dunes, Lake Arrowhead, Lanfair Valley, Loma Linda, Lucerne Valley, Ludlow, Mentone, Mitchell Caverns, Montclair, Morongo Valley, Mountain Pass, Mt. Baldy, Needles, Nipton, Ontario, Oro Grande, Parker Dam, Phelan, Pinon Hills, Pisgah Crater, Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Rialto, Riggs, Route 66, Silver Lake, Soda Dry Lake, Upland, Twentynine Palms, Turtle Mountains, Yermo, Yucca Valley, Ward Valley, Zyzzx.
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