Here’s the honest version:
We’ve spent a quarter of a million dollars chasing gold on this ground.
Some years it sings. We’ve pulled:
- a couple thousand bucks in a short stretch,
- around $5,000 in one better push,
- and once, about 20 ounces in a few days when we finally hit the right pay layer.
Other years? It just laughs at us.
Last run, we cleared around five grand on costs that would make a sane person cry. In 2025 we tested again and pulled out about 15 grams quickly. Enough to prove it’s still there. Not enough to make a banker smile.
We’re at that lovely intersection of too stubborn to quit and too broke to keep doing it the old way.
So we’re trying something different:
Turning the claim into a shared experience, where people who’ve always dreamed of Yukon gold can jump in—by:
- Buying a bag of real Yukon paydirt
- Coming up for a three-day “dig your own yard” adventure
- Or simply tossing a bit in the pot to keep fuel in the tank and the pump running
Help Us Keep the Dream Alive: Support a Real Yukon Gold Claim (Paydirt, Camp Stays & Chaos Included)
What You’re Supporting
You’re not funding a TV show (probably… though we really want to turn this into one!) You’re not backing some corporation with a lawyer for every shovel.
You’re helping a small, stubborn, slightly unhinged mining outfit:
- Keep equipment running long enough to finally chase the pay layer properly
- Continue testing ground that most people wrote off as “too tricky”
- Turn part of the claim into a place where regular folks can:
- pan real paydirt at home, or
- come up and live the miner life for a few days, instead of just watching it on a screen
Every dollar goes into:
- Fuel
- Repairs
- Food and basic infrastructure for camp
- Getting paydirt bagged and shipped
- Keeping us from throwing our hands up and going back to town jobs we hate
How You Can Join In
- If you just like the idea of helping a real Yukon claim survive another season, any small donation is gold (pun intended). You’re the reason the pump starts in the morning.
- If you want something in your hands, throw in $150 and we’ll ship you a bag of real Yukon paydirt. Same stuff we’re testing. No guarantee, all heart.
- If you want the full, messy, legendary experience, spot us $1,000 and book a three-day camp stay. You come up, we dig your yard, you keep whatever comes out of it. You’ll share our fire, our coffee, our stories, and probably at least one good swear at the weather.
- And if you can’t actually make it to the Yukon, we’ll still sell you 1-square meter of real paydirt. You can even pick the spot yourself!
You don’t have to be rich to be part of a gold mine. You just have to be the kind of person who thinks, “Yeah, I’d like to be part of that crazy story.”
What You Get (Besides Gold, Maybe)
There are no promises of profit here. Gold mining is the original bad investment with a good view.
What you do get:
- A direct connection to a real Yukon claim and the weirdos stubborn enough to keep working it
- The chance to pan a bag of paydirt that genuinely came from a live mining operation, not a gimmick pile
- Or the chance to come up, hang out, dig in, and say:
“I was there. I watched my own yard of ground get peeled back. I saw what came out.”
And if all you do is chip in a few bucks because you like the idea of some dirtbag miners refusing to give up? That matters too.
We’re not promising you a fortune. We’re promising you honesty, mud, and a real shot at some Yukon color.
If that sounds like your kind of chaos, we’d be honored to have your support.
Gold has been on a tear recently, which is awesome. But think of how it would feel if your $1000 investment turned into $100,000 of real, solid gold. We know it’s there… we’ll do all the work.
We’ll record the whole thing and invite guests and volunteers to keep track of everything and make sure you get the gold you’re owed, if we find any in your pay dirt we’ll ship it to you or send you the cash value.