Project Description
Location and Access
The Lost Emigrant Mine is in the Tahoe National Forest 9 miles southwest of Soda Springs, California on Interstate 80. Access is south from Soda Springs on Soda Springs Road (FS 6001) 17 miles to the turnoff for the Lost Emigrant Mine. The mine is one-half mile north of Soda Springs Road.
Geology and Mineralization
The Lost Emigrant Mine contains a one foot to four-foot-wide quartz vein that carries free gold and pyrite in a diabase porphyry. The vein strikes NW-SE with a 30-degree SW dip. The mine was worked around 1900 and during the 1930s. The USGS calculated a non-compliant resource contained in the property of about 75,000 ounces at 0.27 opt gold. The Company is seeking the USGS data used in calculating this resource for its own analysis.