City Creek Gold Project
The City Creek project consists of a group of 333 unpatented lode-mining claims (6,161 acres), and the Fidelity, Cresson, Danube, Confidence, Perhaps, Combination No. 1, Combination No. 2 and Cuba patented lode claims, M.S. 1644, the Davis Property, the Hoff Property and a portion of the Trucano Option (1,525 mineral acres). The unpatented claims and patented mineral property cover a total of approximately 7,687 acres in the western portion of Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA. More specifically the property lies within the Black Hills Meridian, Township 5N, Range 3E covering portions of Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, and 28; Township 6N, Range 3E, covering portion of section 33 and Township 5N, Range 4E, covering portions of section 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, and 18.
Dakota Gold acquired the original block of 20 City Creek claims from Black Hills Gold Exploration LLC in December 2012. The patented lode claims Fidelity, Cresson, Danube, Confidence, Perhaps, Combination No. 1, Combination No. 2 and Cuba that comprise M.S. 1644 were acquired from Trucano Novelty Inc. in April 2017 with an addition 42 unpatented lode mining claims acquired by staking in November 2018. In July 2020, the Company recorded an additional 166 claims at the northern and eastern boundary of the City Creek block. In November 2021, the Davis property was acquired to fill a gap on the south end of the City Creek project. In March 2022, an option to purchase agreement was executed for the Hoff property, which filled a large land gap and allowed alternate access to the Maitland, Cambrian Unconformity and City Creek projects as well as access for drilling to other exploration targets that exists on the property. An additional 4 unpatented mining claims were staked in late 2022 to cover fractional areas of interest, and in mid 2023, an additional 92 claims were staked to the east of the existing City Creek claim block.
Dakota Gold owns a 100% interest in the property with no known encumbrance of any kind. The Davis property includes only surface rights while the larger Hoff property included both surface and mineral rights. The unpatented portion of the property is under the control of the USFS and the BLM. The annual claim maintenance fees total $54,945.
Access to the southwest end of the property is gained by traveling 0.6 miles west-northwest from the City of Deadwood along the Mount Roosevelt Road (Forest Service 133). The area can also be accessed from US Highway 85 in the City of Deadwood. The Hoff property can be accessed from Pendo Road off Highway 85 southeast of Spearfish, South Dakota, and by internal trails and roads that run the entire length of the property.
The City Creek project is located one mile northeast of the Homestake Open Cut, one mile northwest of the City of Deadwood and is a target for Homestake iron-formation hosted gold mineralization. The southern end of the City Creek project geology is dominated by rocks of the Homestake stratigraphic sequence, including the Ellison, Homestake and Poorman formations that outcrop across the property. The Homestake iron-formation outcrop on the City Creek Property is complexly folded and represents the continuous Homestake iron-formation extension northeast of the Homestake Mine.
Numerous gold prospect pits and shallow underground workings in Homestake formation have been located at the City Creek project area and the stratigraphy has been mapped by both Homestake Mining Company and USGS geologists. The City Creek area saw limited diamond drilling by Homestake Mining Company in the 1970s and 1980s with encouraging results at current gold prices.
The Company plans additional targeting and permitting activities in order to prepare for future drilling programs on the property.
