Mullan, Wallace And Kellogg — Shoshone County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: shoshone_id.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Mullan, Wallace and Kellogg. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. In this area you will find the districts of Beaver, Eagle, Evolution, Hunter, Lelande, Placer Center, Summit and Yreka. At Kellogg, is the great Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines. They are now combined as one of the worlds largest lead and silver producers, but they also produce a by product of gold. The Mammoth, Tiger, Morning, Poorman and Granite mines were major lode producers. The Sunshine Mine at Wallace was a major producer as well. At T47 and 48N R4 and 5E, in the stream and bench gravels you can find placer gold. In T47N R3 and 4E, the "Silver Belt", is an area about 7 miles wide runing east to west for 3 miles. There are very many old lead, silver mines that had a by product of gold.