New gold rush is on the horizon as experts say deserted mine is still FILLED with extremely valuable minerals

A new golden rush could beryllium connected the skyline aft geologists re-examined an abandoned tract successful Wyoming. 

The Carissa Gold Mine astatine South Pass City attracted thousands of laborers successful 1867 - but it was abandoned aft conscionable a fewer years with small success. 

Fast-forward 150 years, and experts judge the parent lode inactive lurks respective 100 feet beneath the surface.

Canadian steadfast Relevant Gold has said they person recovered respective promising metallic belts successful the area, and modern exertion tin unleash the afloat imaginable this clip around. 

The company, founded by geologists Rob Bergmann and Brian Lentz, said they judge a golden unreserved could beryllium coming to Wyoming this summer. 

'When you look astatine historical mining projects, the crushed they unopen down is ever economic,' Bergmann, Relevant Gold co-founder and CEO, told Cowboy State Daily. 

'That doesn't mean the assets has needfully tally out, though. And that's precisely what we spot successful South Pass.'

Bergmann said helium thinks the hidden treasures astatine Carissa could beryllium comparable to the Abitibi golden loop - a 630 kilometer-wide portion of Canada which extends from Wawa, Ontario to Val d'Or, Quebec. 

The Abitibi territory is location to much than 100 mines, which person produced 170 cardinal ounces of golden since 1901. 

Relevant Gold honed successful connected Carissa aft collecting information from drilling samples and magnetic surveys conducted with Wyoming Geological Survey and U.S. Geological Survey.

The Canadian institution is besides exploring different pockets of Wyoming for imaginable treasure, with 5 large-scale projects launched successful the authorities truthful far. 

'We volition enactment (each area) done our systematic exploration process,' Bergmann told Cowboy State Daily. 

'We commencement by looking astatine each the information to analyse an area, and past we'll enactment a program unneurotic for boots connected the ground.' 

This summer, Relevant Gold plans to drill successful antecedently unexplored depths, including a portion of the Seminoe Mountains adjacent Rawlins. 

'There was historical mining there, akin to South Pass City, and it's ne'er been drilled before,' Bergmann said. 

'We are the archetypal to spell trial the rocks beneath the surface, to spot if determination are opportunities determination to unlock value.' 

And it's not conscionable golden - much than 2.34 cardinal tons of uncommon world minerals person been discovered successful Wyoming successful caller years. 

This means the US could soon surpass China arsenic the world person successful uncommon world minerals.

American Rare Earths Inc announced past twelvemonth that reserves adjacent Wheatland dramatically surpass the Asian nation’s 44 cardinal metric tons, saying it 'exceeded our wildest dreams’ aft drilling lone astir 25 percent of the property.

The institution has a involvement successful 367 mining claims crossed 6,320 acres of onshore successful the Halleck Creek Project, on with 4 Wyoming mineral leases connected 1,844 acres connected the aforesaid task present called Cowboy State Mine.

The types of minerals astatine the tract are utilized successful smartphones, hybrid car motors and subject technologies - among others.