Lost California Treasure

Sierra County Treasure Map

Sierra County California treasure-history records: buried caches, lost mines, source links, land-status warnings, field notes, and interactive map links.

3 Sierra County Records

  • Poker Flat Cache buried cache · Sierra County, in the northern section of the West Yuba Roadless Area near the historic ghost town of Poker Flat. · Low probability

    During the height of the Sierra County Gold Rush in the late 1850s, Jerome Peyron operated a highly prosperous retail store that catered to the thousands of miners in the Poker Flat district. Fearing the frequent.

  • Great Blue Lead at Forest City and Bald Mountain lost mine · Forest City and Bald Mountain drift-mining country, Sierra County, northern Sierra Nevada · Medium probability

    Forest City and the Bald Mountain drift mine sat on the famed Great Blue Lead, a buried auriferous channel that drove some of Sierra County's most persistent lost-channel speculation. Historical accounts describe the.

  • Original Sixteen-to-One Mine lost mine · Alleghany, Sierra County (on Pliocene Ridge) · High probability

    One of the most famous and longest-operating gold mines in California. Discovered in 1896, it is legendary for its extremely high-grade gold-in-quartz specimen ore. Focuses on locating 'pockets' where gold occurred in.