Gold Rush 2015 Season 6 Mining Claim Locations

This is part six of a series about the mines featured in the Gold Rush TV show. We suggest starting from the beginning of this series. Season 6 of Gold Rush was a season of familiar settings but raised stakes.  All the teams returned to last season’s diggings but with new, ambitions goals. McKinnon Creek…

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Gold Rush 2014 Season 5 Mining Claim Locations

This is part five of a series about the mines featured in the Gold Rush TV show. We suggest starting from the beginning of this series. Activity returns to the frozen north in Gold Rush Season 5.  The Hoffmans return to the Yukon at McKinnon Creek.  Parker Schnabel returned to Scribner Creek Mine for a second season….

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Gold Rush 2012 Season 3 Mining Claim Locations

This is part three of a series about the mines featured in the Gold Rush TV show. We suggest starting from the beginning of this series. Season 3 of Gold Rush returned with familiar faces and mostly familiar locations. The Hoffman crew, Dakota Fred crew, and Parker Schnabel crew all returned to continue mining on…

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Gold Rush 2011 Season 2 Mining Claim Locations

This is part two of a series about the mines featured in the Gold Rush TV show. We suggest starting from the beginning of this series. After an impressively successful first season of Gold Rush, Discovery Channel tripled down by following not only the Hoffman Crew but also introducing Dakota Fred as an independent actor and…

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Gold Rush 2010 Season 1 Mining Claim Locations

Season 1 took place on a single gold mine. At the time of the first season the property was unnamed. The series referred to the land as the Porcupine Creek mine. In season two, it would be named the Jim Nail Placer Mine. The Jim Nail Placer Mine (aka: Porcupine Creek Mine) 59°25′6.91″N 136°13′48″W As…

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August 2016 Review

August 2016 was a notable month in a relatively slow year for mining claims staked on public land. While the total number of active claims in August 2016 is down by 3.72% compared to August of 2015, the number of claims staked in the month of August is up by 88% compared to last year….

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Tombstone

Some people get so excited about visiting the site of the original shootout at the OK Corral that they forget what it was silver that drew so many wild and adventurous characters to Tombstone. Yet, the silver mines of this town were, in their own right, the stuff of legend. The town itself is named…

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May 2016 Review

May 2016 experienced a striking decrease in staked claims (102) compared to May 2015 (993). This is paired with an uptick in abandoned claims (283) to result in a month with a net decrease of 280 mining claims.  Box Elder, Utah stands out with 296 abandoned claims this month—compared to 382 abandoned claims in all of the…

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