The discovery                         

In the years that followed we began to search the area  between the gold beach and the old collapsed mine. we decided to check the creek between the mountain and the gold beach. We needed to get below the black box on the sat photo below. We traveled a 600 foot cable car across a canyon then walked a 2x8 board walk trail for 1 mile to a selective  logging operation . From there we hiked through the forest  for about 1 km till we hit the creek. This creek is very remote , it is about 3 miles long then hits the coast 7 miles out the west coast trail.   We kneeled down and used our hard hats to pan the creek, wow, what color. in the MPH report we took the geologist to this spot. the cable car was gone by then so we had to hike the gorge first.
One day We found a old ribbon up the creek that had " helicopter pad" written on it. I asked a friend "Jim" if he could drop us of so we could go find slumaches mine. No problem. This was when we found the old lodge pole pine trail mentioned in   Indian legends. We built our own trail from a logging road to the creek were we built a cabin. We continued searching for the mine.

What  we  found bush and swamps.
The bedrock was only visible in a few spots in the creeks, but the color was unlike anything I had ever seen before.
This area has remained hidden under a blanket of thick forests and swamps since before the last ice age .
I now feel that I have come up with the geological environment that created this vein gold. A Volcano
What I found was A  mountain made up of extremely fractured granite[5], fractured by the geothermal activity in the area[the host rock] see map .
The Ariel photo shows a volcanic crater with an inside diameter of 600 meters and a lava flow flowing to the ocean.[6] The lava flow is a geo thermal area made up of many minerals.



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