Geologic Map of the Maysville Quadrangle, Chaffee County, Colorado

cabin in the NE 1 / 4 of Section 9. This area consists of Quaternary alluvial fan (Qfy) and
landslide (Qfol) deposits derived from Bull Lake and Pinedale tills. Consequently,
Crawford’s (1913) placer locality may be a misplotted location of the upper Placer Creek
workings.
Examination of the Bureau of Land Management LR2000 unpatented mining
claim records indicate the presence of recent extensive placer mining claims that covered
the northeast part of the Maysville quadrangle. The Valley View placer claim block was
located in 1965 and covered the area from the range front on the west and extending east
of the eastern quadrangle boundary, and from the South Arkansas River in the south and
extending north of the northern quadrangle boundary. Many of the Valley View placer
claims were abandoned in 1992 and 1994. A smaller placer claim block was maintained
in the area of Sections 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 (T49N, R7E) and was
finally abandoned in 2002. Another large block of placer claims (ALKE claims) were
located and abandoned in 1996 in the same area as the Valley View claims. A new
Valley View claim block was located in 2006 in Sections 23, 24, 25 and 26 indicating
continued interest in the placer potential of this area. One placer claim (Early Fall claim)
was located in 1979 in Willow Creek near the Bon Ton mine area but was abandoned in
1991.
Parker (1974) briefly described two placer mining areas along Placer Creek
(Sections 14 and 15, T50N, R7E) and at the intersection of Placer Creek and Blank Gulch
(Section 26). He stated that little is known of the history of these placers but mentioned
that William Blank was reported to have produced $30,000 in gold from the “upper
placers.” He also mentioned that Golden Fleece Placer Company operated a small
mechanized plant in 1946 and Geo-Resources Exploration, Inc. was conducting placer
exploration in 1959 and 1960.
PLACER DEPOSITS – Two areas of minor placer workings have been previously
identified on the piedmont surface in the central part of the Maysville quadrangle (Parker,
1974; and Scott and others, 1975). They were described by Parker (1974) but little is
known about their history. The largest placer workings are up to 80 ft wide for 870 ft
along Placer Creek in NE 1 / 4 and SE 1 / 4 , Section 15, T50N, R7E. This area is near the
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