Lost cabin mine wyoming

mschlaht · Aug 20, 2015

My wife and I made a trip up to the big horns this last week for our honeymoon. And had a great time. One of the things I love is gold prospecting and i have done a little research on the lost cabin mine. While we were up there. I was doing some panning in otter. Adjustment to crazy woman creek. In crazy woman canyon and was finding alot of color. As I was working up the stream I fell upon two different mine shaft one with the right geological formations that show the string of gold.:-) I can not say it is the lost cabin mine but we have made the steps to put on a 160 acre claim. Check with BLM it has not be claimed at all.

stefen · Aug 20, 2015

Gotta start somewhere...

tamrock · Aug 20, 2015

No picture.

BTW thanks for the tip

old digger · Aug 21, 2015

Welcome to TNET!

That's quite an elusive treasure, glad to hear you did your homework and found some color.

tamrock said:
No picture. BTW thanks for the tip

I do not think it is wise to post too many photo's of the immediate area of your search unless you want locals who may know the area, and claim-jumpers spoiling your chances of success. Keep an eye out for the charred remains of the old log cabin (may have been half dugout/cabin), and don't forget a good metal detector so you can try and find those buried sacks of gold nuggets. Good Luck on your next trip down in there.

tamrock · Aug 21, 2015

Hey there mschlaht, Welcome!. I didn't catch that you've just jointed up for all the fun. I too have read some on the lost cabin mine and I drive by that area from time to time. It's sure pretty country, but winters are sure something else. To me the state of Wyoming is one of favorite places to visit. Sure hope things pan out for ya up there. Good Luck :thumbsup:

mschlaht · Aug 21, 2015

The bonus of crazy woman is that there are three other small creek systems that run adjustment to crazy woman creek. Moose creek wandering mans creek over buy the i Indian bureal grounds bing two of them. Threw time the names of them has changed including odder creek which is now small crazy woman creek.

vpnavy · Aug 23, 2015

We need pictures!

mschlaht · Aug 23, 2015

Def will not post pictures. Until claim is set in stone. Good news we found the cabin and two grave sights. We're going to set it up for archaeology studies and get it all staked out.

rginn · Aug 24, 2015

You can post some pics without worry. Just make sure they're framed such as there are no identifying features in the background. Color in the pan, color in the stream, pic inside the mine shaft; those are types of pics that won't give away location. If that's on BLM land, I wish you the best of luck on gettin your claim filed. Those rascals can be...difficult.

tamrock · Aug 25, 2015

At least you gave some details to the location :laughing7:

. Sure hope it pans out for ya! and keep us informed? :thumbsup:

I'll fix you up with some gear...

Red_desert · Aug 28, 2015

mschlaht said:
Def will not post pictures. Until claim is set in stone. Good news we found the cabin and two grave sights. We're going to set it up for archaeology studies and get it all staked out.

If you do post any, exclude enough of the scenery, get in close with photos. I know of a gold prospector, that discovered someone attached a gps tracking device to his wheel....no telling what those guys will do.

mschlaht · Aug 28, 2015

Thank you so much. We were up there today and had a guy watching us. We have all markers in place and game trail cameras, our markers have our claim number on it as well with a no claiming aloud sign. We did really good and will be up there quite a bit with what we pulled in.

Red_desert · Aug 28, 2015

Sounds good! :coffee2:

mschlaht · Aug 28, 2015

First clean out of the day. Still b learning alot. But not bad

Red_desert · Aug 29, 2015

No, not bad at all in fact that's good as gold I've seen pics of recently, N Georgia stream gold in a cleaning pan.

Red_desert · Aug 29, 2015

I enlarged then cropped the pic for a better look.

Gold_Hunter · Sep 16, 2015

What exactly are we looking at in the pan? How large was your sample to produce those concentrates? How much did you find? I'm a young prospector in WY myself and would love to see the place if you would allow. I do lots of prospecting in South Pass. Really going to hit it hard next summer! Looking forward to your updates!

- Frankie

mschlaht · Sep 16, 2015

After we further classified we processed and smelted down every thing we got 2,7 ounces of gold for 5 hours of work not to bad. We're going to head back up there this weekend. Wish us luck