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Park County Wyomingby Tom AshworthAll along the Shoshone river below the mouth of Alkali Creek, in gravel and sand deposits you can find placer gold. ClarkIn the area near Clark, along the Clark's Fork River, in gravel deposits you can find placer gold. CodyNorthwest of Cody 50 miles (35 miles southeast of Cooke City, Montana), in the Absorak Mountains, is the location of the Sunlight Basin district, which contained many old mines and prospects. Near Cody, in a series of quartz - pyrite vugs and crutifications in fracture zones you will find free milling gold. Near Lower Copper Lake, in complex silver-tungsten deposits there were minor occurrences of gold. In the argentiferous galena veins, especially on the Hoodoo claim you can find minor occurrences of gold. In chalcopyrite veins you can find small amounts of gold. In the pyrite-chalcopyrite-gold veins, especially the Big Goose Mine you can find native gold as grains and flakes. In complex silver veins, especially the Tip Top Claim you will find minor lode gold deposits. MeeteetseAlong the Wood River, in black sand deposits you will find placer gold. Southwest of Meeteetse by 38 miles, in T45N R104W is the Kirwin Mine which produced native gold stringers. Sylvan PassSouth of Sylvan Pass in SW 1/4 section 2 T51N R109W, is the Crouch Gold Prospect, which was operated in the 1930's, for lode gold. 2 miles north of the Crouch Prospect, in all watercourse gravels you can find placer gold. ValleyValley is located well southwest of Cody, near the confluence of Needle Creek with the South Fork of the Shoshone River. This is known as the Stinking Water Region and area mines produced minor lode gold deposits. |
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