We made it back from Dawson and the gold fields a few days a go!  We had a great mining season!  We signed a lease, with a veteran local miner, on the Bonanza property.  His name is Tim Coles.

Tim and I agree he will mine Bonanza Creek!

He is a very hard working smart operator.  With only 2 people he moves as much dirt as the Hoffman s did with how many?  He reclaims the property as he goes along as well, so I won’t have a mess later.  He has found areas that I was told were mined out that are untouched and have good gold!  We are quite happy to have Tim working on our property!  He is dedicated too…he is still there mining even though it is freezing at night!

Kathy thought she found gold!

It broke….not gold!

Along with some gold he has dug up some tusks the largest was 90 pounds!

Tim is holding the first tusk he found for us!

I wanted to post while I was up north but the internet connections are way to slow.  More soon!

This fox was a regular around camp….hunting mice!

Our first cleanup!

Steve