GOLD SKEYE SEVEN

Visited the claim and camped for several days in September 2020. As some have stated, this claim you will need a high clearance vehicle. Do not rely on Google Maps or Garmin to get to the claim. You will end up going down a path that would give a Jeep a run for its money. We did some metal detecting, lots of digging with classifying screens and some panning. Most of what we found was flour gold. Location has a lot of overburden. The best find of the trip was a meteorite that I found when walking down the road. It was about the size of a walnut and was just laying there.
I will be back at some time. It is a 13+ hour drive for me to get there, so its a destination. I plan to bring more water with me and run a box on a closed system to move more material. We brought back 4 full 5 gallon buckets of concentrates. Unfortunately with life being busy there are still waiting to be ran....
I should also mention that I own this claim with my family and it is on loan to GPAA. Please let me know if you find anything cool. I would love to hear!

You definitely need to be prepared. Lots of trenches in the paths. I suggest a 4x4 with good tires to grab when needed. It took a while to get in and then I was worried I would not get out because of the rain coming down and I am driving a standard Chevy Traverse with not much ground clearance.

I got there a little too late to pan as it was dark and decided I to leave when the rain started coming down.

May want to consider a winch and a chainsaw for the trees falling across the paths.

Lots of nice looking campsites. It seems people have really been good about taking care of the area.

Beautiful place if you know what you are doing, I was a little anxious because I do not 😁 I think I should get a good handheld GPS.

Cell service: my Verizon worked ok when on or near the top of a hill. It would drop to 3G and then no service as I descended.

Looked for a couple of days for the claim. I need a better GPS and some more knowledge to find this claim. Great area for camping in the National Forest. Historic good area for gold. Will return soon and do some real prospecting! Antelope, jack rabbits and beautiful cactus blooming.

I brought some water and panned a dozen or so sample pans with no results. I tested the drainages adjacent to the road. The claim was covered in snow, so it made things tough.

I had planned to haul buckets to somewhere with water and run through a sluice, but found nothing worthy. If conditions were better, I'd check out the other side of the claim.

Its beautiful country. Although we didn't find anything worth mentioning, it was still a good time visiting this claim.