Mine Names: Great Excelsior; alternate names Wells Creek, Excelsior, President
MAS/MILS sequence number: 0530730049
Access: 2-wheel-drive road and trail
Status of mining activity: none
Claim status: Per the Mining Law of 1872, lode mining claims fall in two categories:
1. Unpatented claims require a minimum annual expenditure of$100 assessment work per claim. A $100 maintenance feemay be paid in lieu of performing assessment work. Un-patented claims are classified as active or closed. Active de-notes a valid, up-to-date claim. Closed denotes that the main-tenance fee, assessment work, or other requirements havenot been met, and that the claim is no longer valid. The following table contains information on active claims only.
2. Patented claims are owned in fee simple by the discovererand their assigns. A mineral survey is performed as part ofthe patent application process, prior to the issuance of a pat-ent. Some lode claims initially mined underground may at alater date turn into an open pit operation. If this occurs, aSurface Mining Permit is required, which contains certain stipulations regarding reclamation.
As of October 2003, all claims in secs. 5 and 6, T39N R8E, were classified as closed with the exception of “Wells Creek #2, 3, 4,6 and 7”, held by Excelsior Mining Corporation, and “Gold Por-phyry #1–5”, held under possessory title by private parties(BLM Land and Mineral Records LR2000 database).
Excelsior Mining made a patent application for the Wells Creek claims in 1992 that has not been brought to a conclusion as of the date of this publication. The Gold Porphyry group lies in the NE quadrant of sec. 5 and northeast of the Excelsior property.
Current ownership: Excelsior Mining Corporation,East Wenatchee, Wash.
Surrounding land status: Mt. Baker–Snoqualmie NationalForest
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