The CK Gold Project gold mine 20 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, will eventually look like a quarry, U.S. Gold President and CEO George Bee said, but while drawing core samples in 2023-24, it looked like a nondescript slit trench on the prairie. U.S. Gold
CHEYENNE, Wyo.—George Bee is prospecting for gold in folds of feldspar, granodiorite, and quartz exhumed from faults in the earth’s crust, hundreds of feet below a ridge-rimmed prairie vale on the eastern flanks of the Laramie Range.
He doesn’t need a pickaxe to muscle mineral from stone, or a stream-side sluice to sift river slag to find what he seeks. He doesn’t even need to be at the mine, a nondescript slit-trench gash amid waving buffalograss and sage-crested arroyos, to see its bonanza.
