Marshall Mining Labs · Field Edition · 2026

MODERN
MINER

Forty acres on Beaver Creek. A hundred and sixty years of Idaho gold history. One AI-powered platform built to find what's still down there.

CLAIM RECORD2026 SEASON
Big Beaver CreekIDC-BB-4471
Little Beaver CreekIDC-LB-4472
Total Acreage40 acres
Basin History160+ years
StatusActive
43.9659°N 115.6044°W — Big Beaver
43.9668°N 115.6006°W — Little Beaver
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The Ground
Big Beaver · IDC-BB-4471 · 20 ac
Little Beaver · IDC-LB-4472 · 20 ac
Field Intelligence

Built for the creek, not the boardroom

Modern Miner is the AI prospecting companion built for real miners working real ground — specific to Beaver Creek, not gold mining in general.

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Live Yield Tracking

Real-time session weight, value per gram, and hourly rate as you work the sluice.

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Old Timer AI

160 years of Idaho mining records. Ask it anything about Boise Basin geology, regulations, or technique.

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Claim Mapping

Drop pins, log finds, and build a living spatial record of everything you recover.

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Claim Management

BLM filings, maintenance fees, and annual deadlines — handled before they become a problem.

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Offline First

Full functionality at zero bars. Sync when you hit cell coverage back in Idaho City.

TABLET EXCLUSIVE
Field Notes from the Ground

Historical Maps Strip

See how the ground has changed since the first General Land Office surveys of the 1860s. Four eras of Beaver Creek — from rush-era hydraulics to present-day active claims.

Present satellite
PRESENT · 2026

Modern Satellite

Current channel positions of Big Beaver and Little Beaver Creek. Two active BLM placer claims visible in the drainage.

Terrain view
REFERENCE · MODERN TOPO

Terrain Survey

Modern topographic reference showing elevation contours, ridgelines, and drainage patterns for the Boise County claims area.

Basin district
c. 1893 GLO SURVEY AREA

Boise Basin District

The broader drainage context — Idaho City quadrangle as first surveyed by the General Land Office in 1867 and remapped in 1893.

Full watershed
AERIAL · FULL DRAINAGE

Full Watershed

The complete Beaver Creek watershed — from ridge to confluence and the full extent of 1862 placer rush territory.

TABLET EXCLUSIVE
Advanced Detection

Below the Surface

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Ground Penetrating Analysis

Sub-surface anomaly detection. Identify buried channels, ancient bedrock traps, and mineralization signatures from aerial LiDAR data.

SURFACE ALLUVIUM — 0–2 ft PLACER GRAVEL LAYER — 2–8 ft BURIED PALEO-CHANNEL — 8–18 ft ANOMALY BEDROCK — CRETACEOUS GRANITE Idaho Batholith — primary gold source 0 ft 2 ft 8 ft 18 ft

Modern Miner processes aerial LiDAR data to map sub-surface anomalies — identifying buried paleochannels where placer gold concentrates over geological time.

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Metal Detector Integration

Pair your Minelab or Garrett detector with Modern Miner. Log every signal, map every sweep, build a spatial record of your entire season.

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BLUETOOTH PAIRING
Minelab Equinox, CTX 3030, Garrett AT Max, and Axiom supported.
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AUTO-PIN ON SIGNAL
Every detected signal automatically pinned on your claim map with GPS coordinates.
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SWEEP COVERAGE MAP
Visual heat map of ground you've covered. Know where you've been.
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SEASON ANALYTICS
End-of-season analysis showing highest-yield zones for next year.
// Beaver Creek Time Machine

600 Years on
Forty Acres

How the land changed — the creek, the people, and the gold — from ancient drainage to active claim.

PRESENT DAY
2026

Two Active Claims

BLM MINERAL RIGHTSACTIVE PLACER40 ACRES

Big Beaver Creek (IDC-BB-4471) and Little Beaver Creek (IDC-LB-4472). Two drainages, one mountain, two decades of accumulated placer deposits waiting for a systematic season.

TERRAIN NOTE
Channels largely stabilized since late-20th century reclamation. Creek beds show remnant hydraulic mining debris from the 1880s–1900s. Bedrock channels beneath current alluvial fill remain unmapped.
GOLD NOTE
Active placer gold in both drainages, concentrated in bedrock crevices, behind boulders, and in natural trap pockets. Deeper buried channels (ancient paleobeds) may hold significantly higher concentrations.
IDC-BB-4471 IDC-LB-4472 BIG BEAVER LITTLE BEAVER N ↑
GOLD RUSH ERA
1890

The Hydraulic Era

BOISE BASIN RUSHHYDRAULIC MININGCHANNEL DISTURBANCE

Twenty-eight years after the 1862 Boise Basin gold rush, hydraulic operations had dramatically altered Beaver Creek's natural channels.

TERRAIN NOTE
Hydraulic monitors used high-pressure water to blast hillsides, flushing gold-bearing gravels through sluice boxes. Creek channels were widened significantly, valley floors filled with tailings. The Boise Basin produced an estimated $250M in gold (1860s dollars).
GOLD NOTE
Easily accessible surface gold largely removed 1862–1880. Deeper bedrock channels and buried paleobeds untouched. The 1890 federal mining survey noted Beaver Creek as "worked but not exhausted."
BIG BEAVER LITTLE BEAVER N ↑
PRE-CONTACT ERA
1790

Shoshone Territory

NORTHERN SHOSHONENATURAL DRAINAGEPRISTINE CHANNELS

Seventy years before the gold rush, the Boise Basin was Northern Shoshone seasonal territory. The creeks ran in their natural state — wider, more sinuous, and significantly more productive as fish and game habitat.

TERRAIN NOTE
Natural creek channels, free of mining disturbance. Beaver populations maintained natural dams, creating wetland complexes that acted as gold-trapping sediment basins.
GOLD NOTE
Centuries of undisturbed spring floods had redistributed placer gold into rich natural traps. This is the deposit that would cause the 1862 rush.
BIG BEAVER LITTLE BEAVER N ↑
LITTLE ICE AGE
1650

Peak Snowpack Era

LITTLE ICE AGEACTIVE REDISTRIBUTIONSHOSHONEAN PEOPLES

The Little Ice Age brought significantly deeper snowpacks to the Boise Mountains. Spring flooding was more dramatic, regularly redistributing placer gold into natural trap zones.

TERRAIN NOTE
Ice age cooling meant 30–50% deeper snowpack. Spring flood events were larger and more energetic — cutting more aggressively into the valley floor, redistributing gold-bearing gravels.
GOLD NOTE
High-energy flood events were key gold-concentration events. Placer gold sorted and concentrated in natural hydraulic trap zones — the same pockets later miners would find first.
GOLD TRAP BIG BEAVER LITTLE BEAVER N ↑
ANCESTRAL ERA
1400

Ancestral Drainage

MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD ENDSHOSHONEAN ANCESTORSANCIENT CHANNEL

At the close of the Medieval Warm Period, the Beaver Creek drainage looked significantly different — older, slower, more braided — but the gold had been eroding in for 65 million years.

TERRAIN NOTE
The creek channel in 1400 likely ran further east before Little Ice Age floods shifted it. Ancient meander scars visible in modern aerial photography as faint arcs of different vegetation.
GOLD NOTE
The original source gold — from Cretaceous quartz veins in the Idaho Batholith — had been eroding into the Beaver Creek drainage for roughly 65 million years. A mature, well-developed placer system waiting for concentration events.
65 MILLION YEARS OF EROSION → THIS CREEK BIG BEAVER LITTLE BEAVER N ↑
PRESENT / 2026
← DRAG OR USE ARROWS TO TRAVEL THROUGH TIME →
Creek channel positions are interpretive approximations based on USGS topographic surveys and historical mining records from the Boise Basin district. Pre-mining era channels are informed estimates based on paleoclimate models and regional hydrology.
ELIAS COBB
OLD TIMER · AI FIELD PARTNER
EST. ~1426
AI PROSPECTING PARTNER · MOBILE EXCLUSIVE

The Gold Savant of the
Last Six Centuries.

 

— ELIAS COBB · OLD TIMER · EST. ~1426

Old Timer is an AI prospecting partner trained on 600 years of Boise Basin knowledge. He was here before Idaho had a name. He knows every bedrock contact, every pay streak, every creek bend — and he has four gold nugget teeth from Little Beaver Creek to prove it. On-device. Offline-first. Built for the field.

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Pay Streak ID

Photo your ground. Old Timer reads it like a map he drew himself in 1882.

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Gold Photo Analysis

Nugget type, weight estimate, probable source — specific, immediate, six centuries of pattern recognition.

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600-Year Memory

Ask him what this canyon looked like in 1650. He was there. He remembers every flood, every shift, every buried pay streak.

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Offline First

Full intelligence at zero bars. Runs on-device. Sync when you hit cell coverage back in Idaho City.

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What's Next

Year One Is the Proof.
What Comes After Is the Point.

01

This Season

Field-testing Modern Miner across both claims — measuring everything, refining the platform against real ground.

02

The Network

Opening the platform to fellow prospectors and small mining operations who've been doing this their whole lives.

03

The Digital Twin

A fully mapped, AR-capable claim — topography, ancient riverbeds, water systems.

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Next Season

Field-testing the fully mapped, AR-capable claim — brought to life in the field with Modern Miner.

05

Grow the Network

Expanding the app and platform technologies — showcasing new capabilities to the broader mining world.

06

Full Launch

Year one: real miners. Year two: casual prospectors. Year three: full launch on Apple and Android.

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