The North Fork Mine property consists of 35 un-patented mining claims encompassing approximately 700 acres of land, which are owned by North Fork Mining Corp. The property is located in the Alleghany mining district which is within the northern portion of the Mother Lode Belt. Access to the site is provided via paved County roads and a maintained dirt road, ¾ of a mile in length. Located in the California Mother Lode District, USA.

The Alleghany mining district is within the northern portion of the Mother Lode Belt and on the north side of the Grass Valley mining district. Gold mineralization within the Mother Lode Belt occurs along the regional, northerly-trending Melones fault system following the western flank of the Sierra Nevada Range. The belt has a strike length of more than 300km and averages about 80km in width. Gold deposits occur as mesothermal, quartz-carbonate vein systems along faults within metamorphic rocks. The Grass Valley and Alleghany districts are notable for their high gold grades and for the largest gold production among all mesothermal vein camps in Western North America. The North Fork property is along the strike extension of the prolific gold-bearing quartz veins in the Alleghany area about 3 km to the southeast. At North Fork, data from historic underground examinations indicate a 240m wide zone containing steeply-dipping gold-bearing quartz veins locally exceeding 6m in width. As noted on historical maps, assays grading above 0.5 opt (15 g/t) Au are common. Grades exceeding 1.0 opt are also common. Gold veins and their host rocks in the district are capped by post-mineralization volcanic rocks, creating opportunities to discover additional concealed mineralization. Placer gold was discovered in the Mother Lode Belt in 1849 and in the Alleghany district in 1852. Underground mining of high-grade veins at Alleghany began in 1853. A number of other historic mines exist on the property, and some have recorded production from high-grade veins. Given the high gold grades at North Fork, the limited development, the reported widths of the veins, and its location along strike with major gold vein systems at nearby Alleghany, the project has excellent potential for the discovery of new high-grade gold resources amenable to underground mining. There has been no systematic modern exploration on the property.

A proposed surface drilling program at the site was approved by the U.S. Forest Service in March of 2014, but has yet to be completed. The goal of the drilling program was to establish an initial geologic resource of high-grade (>0.5 opt) gold mineralization. Targets in this area can be significant given that the nearby Sixteen to One Mine produced over one million ounces.

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