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This rich Unpatented Placer Mine is in the Clearwater National Forest, conveniently located near the Lolo Motorway and is an awesome area for the sportsman to hunt, camp, fish, as well as prospect for gold and other valuable gems. The large deer, elk and small game population provide for some great hunting, as well as the trout provide some great fishing for the angler.
Dense with cedars, hemlocks, Western Larches, and other coniferous trees, the lands in 1.8-million-acre Clearwater National Forest lift and plunge in a series of deep drainages and high-backed ridges. This is ideal for freeing up gold and other mineral deposits from the land and placing it within the stream beds and sediment of many creeks that feed the Middle and North Forks of the Clearwater River and the Lochsa River, which traverse the region.
The Pierce district is underlain by granitic rocks of the Idaho batholith, Precambrian metasedimentary rocks of the Belt Series, and Columbia River Basalt (Ross, 1941, p. 37). The lode deposits are discontinuous fissure fillings of quartz, auriferous pyrite, free gold, and some arsenopyrite. They are distributed in or near gneissic bodies and are closely associated with pegmatite, aplite, and diabase dikes.
Orofino, Pierce, and Weippe Idaho, in Clearwater County are the nearby towns.