Wenden Arizona Placer Claim 20 Acres YELLOW RIVER MINE

The Yellow River Placer Mining Claim is one of those rare hidden gems that you don’t find all that often (but can spend a lifetime looking for). About a 35 minute drive north of Wenden AZ, this area is well known for producing gold, but historically it is a hard-rock mining area that produces free milling gold. Nestled in a hidden valley that is surrounded on three sides by majestic hills, there are numerous gold mines up in the hills, all of which are claimed, but no one has spent much time in the valley itself. Normally we work with lode claims ourselves, as it is often better to go to the source when mining. However, given the topography here and the nature of the annual floods every monsoon season, this particular claim is perfectly situated to be a repository for all of the gold that washes down from the mines at the top of the hills.  When it rains here, this wash turns into a torrent of water - and I mean a lot of water comes down. Over thousands of years, the water has carved t