Accessing the Green Willow Claim is very easy and straight forward. The road is 2WD passable with only about 1 mile on dirt Forest Service RD from the paved County RD.

Located in Chaffee County, Colorado

The main creek on the Green Willow Placer Claim (Green Creek) is a year round flowing stream. Although fairly narrow in width between 8-15 feet wide. The stream has ample fast water flow and depth. Floating a small 2 or 3 inch dredge on this claim would be a breeze. ​ Throughout the claim Green Creek runs in short, short cuts back and for the between the West bench area and the East steep mountain slope toe. ​ Consequently, while surveying the area with initial hand panning and then ultimately with a gold cube & trommel the best gold came from the mountain East side of the claim. No clays were present and there was a descent amount of black sand. ​​ This claim is best suited for someone who can take their time and have patience to dig and test the different bedrock and false bedrock layers and pay gravel streaks. This is not a highly dispersed fine gold claim where there is excessive amounts of float gold present. This claim provides highly concentrated pay gravels with numerous false bedrock layers. Hit a good pay gravel layer and you have fantastic gold from small to large; dig a kind of pay gravel looking layer without doing your homework and you will find nothing of value. ​ Additionally, the Green Willow Claim is named that for a reason, although a short walk to the creek from the road (200/250') the undergrowth is thick between the road and the creek. This is good and bad. The bad being it will take longer to walk to the creek. The overwhelmingly positive side of thick brush is it really has and will deter anyone from prospecting that stretch of creek.

At first glance this claim presents to very good traits for alluvial gold deposition. First, there is a large amount of fractured quartz fragments and many pieces of pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, feldspar, and mica present among the river rock which has flowed into the claim from the multiple creeks.

Bedrock is readily found and sharp cuts in the bank help to determine different pay layers, bedrock, and fall bedrock layers.

This claim appears to have been partially worked in the dry high bar bench portion of the claim. Some small hand stacked rock areas and trenches are present along with various old tin cans. Numerous lode mines were developed upstream from the Green Willow placer claim producing Au,Ag,Cu,Ag, Fe

20.00 Acre Unpatented Placer Mining Claim
CMC# 105785681

Not zoned for residential structures
Purchase the Green Willow Placer Claim outright for 8,500 USD

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Finance the Green Willow Placer Claim in-house with 3,400 USD down and a monthly payment of 234.75 USD for 24 months. No early pre-payments, credit checks, or hidden fees.