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QUICK FACTS
• 15 patented claims (230± acres), and 37 unpatented claims (1,188± acres)
• Estimated two ounces of gold per hour during last mining operation
• Location upstream from Circle, Alaska, on the Yukon River – about 60 miles
• Estimated value of the remaining gold reserves –about $60 million net, according to EASI
• In 1971 Joseph Vogler of Fairbanks purchased the Woodchopper mining claims and continued mining periodically until his death in 1993
• Flight time from Fairbanks is approximately 1:15 minutes in a Cessna 180
• Gravel airstrip at the property approximately 2,500-feet; repairs will be needed
• Private inholding in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
• Woodchopper Creek was reportedly first mined in 1898 with an unusually high gold fineness of 0.933
• Historic production on the creek produced some 117,000 ounces of gold or over two hundred million dollars at today’s prices
• Area wildlife includes caribou, very large moose, marten, lynx, wolverine, black and grizzly bears. The area’s abundant cliffs are important to Peregrine Falcons