Centerville — Boise County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: boise_id.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Centerville. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. Centerville is located in the Boise Basin District and includes Idaho City, Moore Creek, Gambrinus. All of these are in the middle of the Boise Basin. The alluvial gravel deposits covers much of the region. This area alone produced over 2,000,000 ounces of placer gold. Along Grime Creek on the way to Placerville you will find some rich old placers. Along the Boise River, near Twin Springs, had some very rich and productive placers. All of the regional watercourse gravels, benches and terraces contain placer gold. Near Gambrinus, you will find many old lode mines that produced a by product of gold. The Illinois and Gambrinus mines were large producers of by product gold in this area. Reported by:Rick Andrews Partially located on the original site of Centerville. These twelve claims are owned by Ted Sharfe of Boise. Turning right and driving through the New Centerville community stop at the first forest service road to the left. Off the head of the tee you should see a dump truck box with twin sluices. Straight ahead from the tee you will see a miners shack with a travel trailer. Ted can be found here weekends. The gold is fine and found with a lot of monazite. Relics abound.