Remote Prospecting?

[Geowizard]

Nome update;

Remote prospectors must be willing to meet many challenges. The most frustrating challenge confronting many of us today is the fact that our World is shrinking.

Nome Alaska was once considered the largest GOLD deposit on Earth.

Here's a link to a mapper image of the property lines: http://www.alaska-gold.com/nome/nome_mapper2.pdf

With ANCSA and the resulting division of "The GOLDEN Pie", prospectors heading to Nome need to know where the property lines have been drawn. The sections of the mapper image in GRAY are T/A' d State of Alaska Domain open to location of valuable mineral deposits by any citizen of the United States in accordance with SOA mining regulations. The area that appears to NOT be Gray is BSNC acquired lands. That land is NOT open for location of valuable mineral deposits by citizens of the United States.

https://beringstraits.com/our-lands/

In light of these facts, we move forward;

Stick around. I'm going to show you where the NUGGIES are.

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

Looking for Nuggies?

A legendary mine, not far from Nome produced extraordinary GOLD.

This mine is accessible by driving from Nome on the Council highway.

One of the survey lines crosses directly over the mine.

There are hits nearby!

Prospectors should note correlation like this.

Stick around, there's more GOLD prospecting ahead!

- Geowizard

[gabbie]

The AMA Federal Oversight Committee started this week compiling our Federal Administration transition document, which outlines our priorities and especially this time, encourages retaining the positive changes we have seen in the past few years. We also tackled questions for Biden Administration agency appointees. But that was just Tuesday. Wednesday, the Inauguration occurred and immediately we received news of major policy issues being evaluated by the new Administration, termed "Agency actions for review that address COVID-19, provide economic relief, tackle climate change, and advance racial equality." Heads of relevant agencies will review these actions in accordance with Executive Order "Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis." Just more than a few examples including:



Council of Environmental Quality's "Guidance Document Procedures," 86 Fed. Reg. 1279 and "Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act," 85 Fed. Reg. 43304.
Department of Agriculture's "Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands in Alaska," 85 Fed. Reg. 68688.
Environmental Protection Agency's "Repeal of the Clean Power Plan; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing Electric Utility Generating Units; Revisions to Emission Guidelines Implementing Regulations," 84 Fed. Reg. 32520 and "Financial Responsibility Requirements Under CERCLA Section 108(b) for Classes of Facilities in the Hardrock Mining Industry," 83 Fed. Reg. 7556.
Department of Defense's "Reissuance and Modification of Nationwide Permits," 86 Fed. Reg. 2744, "Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule," 85 Fed. Reg. 42210, and "The Navigable Waters Protection Rule: Definition of 'Waters of the United States,'" 85 Fed. Reg. 22250.
Department of the Interior's "Notice of Availability of the Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Bering Sea-Western Interior Planning Area, Alaska," 85 Fed. Reg. 78350 and "Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Proposed Willow Master Development Plan Project, Alaska," 85 Fed. Reg. 69351.


In addition, Secretarial Order 3395 was issued Wednesday (Inauguration Day) that suspends the authority for all Department of Interior agencies to do the following:



*Publish or help publish a Federal Register notice of any NEPA Action



*Issue/Revise/Amend Resource Management Plans



*Grant rights of way, easements, conveyances, land sales and exchanges, notices to proceed under previous surface use authorizations that authorize ground-disturbing activities



*Approve plans of operations or amending POOs under Mining Law of 1872



*Issue any final decision on RS2477s



*Appoint or hire any personnel at our above level GS13



See the order here:

https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files ... signed.pdf

[Geowizard]

Gabbie,

Thanks for that information. Disturbing indeed! Please see my reply on the Political Forum and the "Bite me" thread.

Remote prospectors have to be many things to many people. We owe it to ourselves and our families to remain head strong and deliberate in the face of all odds. It ain't easy.

My ambition is to present as many options as possible for GOLD prospectors to get on the GOLD. Together we must remain resolute and determined to that end.

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

You want Nuggies?

Jump in and let's go!

Alaska Territory;

The territory was previously Russian America, 1733-1867;

The Department of Alaska, 1868–1884;

The District of Alaska, 1884–1912.

From wikipedia;

The Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from August 24, 1912, until Alaska was granted statehood on January 3, 1959.

Why it's important;

While the District of Alaska, the NOME GOLD RUSH occurred... and in 10 years the RUSH was over! By 1908-1910 there was a GOLD STAMPEDE over what became the Iditarod trail!

https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-scienc ... -gold-rush

The reporters reported as follows;

Portion of USBM report (1908) RE: Big Hurrah.

Fast forward 100 years:

Certain Mining properties were Patented PRIOR to Statehood.

In 1959, after statehood, previously patented lands were subject to a payment (recording fee, etc.) to receive patented land status. If, after a prescribed period of time, payment was not received, the properties were foreclosed upon by the State and became the property of the State of Alaska.

Later, the State of Alaska went through the process of selecting and obtaining Tentative Approval of (other) Federal Domain lands.

Furthermore, patented lands were not subject to ANILCA over staking and ANCSA selection. They were NOT acquired and remain State of Alaska Domain to date.

Those parcels are subject to discovery and location by citizens of the United States and entities qualified to do business in the State of Alaska.

I hope this helps.

Wait, don't go away, there's more!

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

Big Hurrah Signature;

Remote prospectors know the importance of the power of observation. We learn that certain "features" can be correlated with GOLD.

The Big Hurrah GOLD mine has a distinct feature that you cannot normally see.

Nova Gold drilled 260 core holes and outlined a GOLD deposit at a depth of several hundred feet.

It has a "geophysical signature" that CAN be seen by the well trained eye.

Because GOLD was mined here and core drilling has shown a deposit in place, it can be expected that similar rock types hosting GOLD mineralization will have a similar signature.

Stick around!

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

The pleasures of Nome;

I have fond memories of prospecting at Nome. Early spring is a time of hot and cold flashes. The weather in the Arctic early in the season is a mix of Sun and rain and calm and miserable cold arctic air masses. One of the pleasures was stepping out of THAT into the Polar Club. The Polar Club was a place of warmth, music, disco lights, good spirits, good food and good people! I look forward to going back. I know sometimes we can't go back.

I reminisce occasionally about East Beach and "sand in my spam"!

The other pleasure IS abundant GOLD. With GOLD there's no shortage of prospectors! Everybody is a prospector. They all have a story! The drama, the adventure is almost without end.

Nome has an untold secret. The secret is where the GOLD came from.

It is with great pleasure for me that I may prospect for GOLD in the hills around Nome in mid winter from my comfy hidey hole in Arizona. It is also with great pleasure that I may share the abundant information contained in survey data with other prospectors. The survey data reveals the answer to the question of WHERE the GOLD came from.

I was asked early-on a question posed by a Nome prospector. The question has crossed the mind of many other prospectors that read the content of my writings.

Geowizard, "Why do you tell everybody this information?" and "Are you nuts?"

GOLD is a Gift. The information is a Gift. I happen to have the Gift of understanding the correlation between the two.

Coincidentally, Alaska offers a domain where prospectors may pursue their passion. State lands in Alaska remain open for prospecting. The permitting doesn't represent an obstacle for those with ambition and a plan.

Don't go away!

- Geowizard

[Geowizard]

The Polar Club - an update;

Checking on the Polar Club, apparently now, it has been transformed. If someone has better knowledge, please provide a more accurate update.

- Geowizard

[Jim_Alaska]

I am probably the exception to most prospectors. Even when I lived there I had absolutely no desire to go to Nome. As far as I was concerned at the time, I considered Nome the "Arm Pit" of Alaska. But that is just me, I do know that there are many for whom Nome remains a dream, as far as wanting to go there to do some sort of mining, I'm just not one of them.

I know that Leonard, who hosts the http://www.golddredger.com/forum/ forums has some really tall tails to tell about his experiences at Nome.

[Joe S (AK)]

Jim,

I, also spent a """memorable""" month in Nome back in '04 or '05. Lets just say that I never left anything there I wanted to go back for.

The ONLY redeeming thing about "that place" was that it forced me to completely throw away every moment's worth of panning experience I had fought for over many years and made me start completely over form scratch. The incredibly small sizes of Gold on the beach (sometimes VERY thin specks and sometimes incredibly tiny round balls) were infuriatingly difficult to recover from the concentrates (given the recovery products available 16 years ago). I fully came to the understanding how, in absolute desperation, the old timers came to use Mercury as a last ditch hope for enough Gold to get out of there.

The incredibly high cost of living, the lack of any type of transportation and the beach living conditions were - - - - challenging. And then, of course, Leonard made his world famous video in 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qYB679h9Nk

Would I ever go back? Long ago I learned to never say never - but - well, I guess we all get 'the drift' here --- right?

Once again Jim sure does know what he's talking about. Good Call, Jim!