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Introduction <br /> The Box Creek Placer is located west of Hwy 24 1.5 miles north of the Twin Lakes, Lake <br /> County approximately 8.5 miles south-southwest of Leadville, Colorado. Average elevation of <br /> the site is 9,330 feet. The site can be found along the west edge of the Arkansas River floodplain <br /> at the eastern foot of Mt. Elbert. <br /> The Box Creek Placer is made up of multiple smaller placer areas located along the broad eastern <br /> valley of Box and Corske Creeks that were originally mined starting between 1898 through <br /> 1918. Previously worked gravels include dredge workings by Hallenbeck, Derry Ranch, and <br /> General Gold Corporation. Dredging, sluicing, hydraulicking,tunneling and other methods were <br /> employed over many decades. While the vast majority of the gravels in the area are previously <br /> mined, unmined reserves exist between previously worked areas and the margins of moraines <br /> surrounding historic disturbed gravel piles as well as deeper locations where outwash channels <br /> fork. <br /> The proposed DRMS permit boundary includes 950.0 acres of previously mined gold bearing <br /> gravels and volunteer reclaimed rangeland, wetland, and forest native species. All old mining <br /> was completed without any salvage of topsoil and without any regard for reclamation of the site. <br /> Box Creek Placer Mine Greg[c Icki and Associates.PLLC <br /> September 2018 i-1 <br />