SYSTEM ONLINE · SEASON 2026 ACTIVE

MODERN
MINER

Forty acres on Beaver Creek. One hundred and sixty years of Idaho mining history. One field operations platform built to find what's still down there.

CLAIM_REGISTRY.JSON● LIVE
claim_01IDC-BB-4471
claim_02IDC-LB-4472
total_acres40
season2026 · Active
basin_history160+ yrs
43.9659°N 115.6044°W // big_beaver
43.9668°N 115.6006°W // little_beaver
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Ground View // Terrain
Big Beaver // IDC-BB-4471
Little Beaver // IDC-LB-4472
Field Intelligence

Platform
Capabilities

Modern Miner is the field operations platform for serious prospectors — live data, AI intelligence, offline-first architecture.

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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 on-device. Ask anything about Boise Basin geology, regulations, technique.

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Claim Mapping

Drop pins, log finds, build a living spatial record of everything you recover across the season.

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Offline Core

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

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Claim Management

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

TABLET EXCLUSIVE
Historical Signal // 4 Eras

Ground Intelligence
Over Time

Four views of the Beaver Creek drainage — from present-day satellite to the broader basin context that set the stage for the 1862 rush.

Present satellite
SIGNAL_01 // 2026

Modern Satellite

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

Terrain
SIGNAL_02 // TOPO

Terrain Survey

Modern topographic reference showing elevation contours, ridgelines, and drainage patterns.

Basin district
SIGNAL_03 // c.1893 GLO

Basin District

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

Full watershed
SIGNAL_04 // WATERSHED

Full Drainage

The complete Beaver Creek watershed — full extent of the 1862 placer rush territory.

TABLET EXCLUSIVE
Sub-Surface Detection // Active

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 0ft 2ft 8ft 18ft

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

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Signal Detection Analytics

Real-time and historical detection data — mapped spatially, analyzed for pattern, surfaced as actionable field intelligence.

DETECTION SIGNAL // ZONE ANALYSIS
BB Upper
82%
BB Mid
67%
BB Lower
45%
LB Upper
91%
LB Mid
73%
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BLUETOOTH PAIRING
Minelab and Garrett detectors supported.
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AUTO-MAP ON SIGNAL
Every hit pinned with GPS coordinates.
// 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.
GOLD NOTE
Active placer gold in both drainages, concentrated in bedrock crevices, behind boulders, and in natural trap pockets.
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. Creek channels widened significantly. 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 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, significantly more productive.

TERRAIN NOTE
Natural creek channels, free of mining disturbance. Beaver populations maintained natural dams, creating wetland complexes acting as gold-trapping sediment basins.
GOLD NOTE
Centuries of undisturbed spring floods 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 deeper snowpacks to the Boise Mountains. Spring flooding was more dramatic, actively redistributing placer gold into natural trap zones.

TERRAIN NOTE
Ice age cooling meant 30–50% deeper snowpack. Spring flood events were larger, faster, and more energetic — redistributing gold-bearing gravels.
GOLD NOTE
High-energy flood events were key gold-concentration events. Placer gold sorted into hydraulic trap zones — the same pockets later miners found 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, Beaver Creek ran older, slower, more braided. The gold had been eroding from Cretaceous quartz veins for 65 million years.

TERRAIN NOTE
Ancient meander scars visible in modern aerial photography as faint arcs of different vegetation — showing where the creek once ran.
GOLD NOTE
65 million years of erosion from Cretaceous quartz veins in the Idaho Batholith — 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. 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.

Download Modern Miner — Talk to Old Timer →
Deployment Roadmap // Phase 01–06

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

// 01

This Season

Field-testing Modern Miner across both claims. Measuring everything, refining against real ground.

// 02

The Network

Opening the platform to fellow prospectors and small mining operations — operators who know the ground.

// 03

Digital Twin

Fully mapped, AR-capable claim — topography, ancient riverbeds, water systems modeled in full.

// 04

Next Season

Field-testing the complete digital twin — AR overlays on live claims, real-time data fusion.

// 05

Network Scale

Expanding platform technologies and commercialization — capabilities to the broader mining world.

// 06

Public Launch

Year one: real miners. Year two: casual prospectors. Year three: full App Store launch.

Access Request // Open

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