Trout Creek

A total of 58 unpatented lode mining claims were staked by Thunder Mountain in 2007 on the Trout Creek target in the Reese River Valley area south of Battle Mountain, Lander County, Nevada. The target is defined by a regional gravity high-low flexure and also by a magnetic anomaly confirmed through ground magnetic survey initiated by the Thunder Mountain during the summer of 2007. The anomaly is located in the pediment of the Shoshone Range and is covered by what is interpreted to be fairly shallow alluvial fan deposits.

The Trout Creek target is situated along a northwest structural tend which projects into the Battle Mountain Mining District (Newmont's Phoenix Mine) to the northwest and into the Goat Ridge window and the Gold Acres, Pipeline, and Cortez Mine area to the southeast. Northwest trending mineralized structures in the Battle Mountain mining district are characterized by elongated plutons, grandiorite porphyry dikes, magnetic lineaments, and regional alignment of mineralized areas.