Brush Creek

Brush Creek is a past producer of gold in Sierra County, California, in USGS's medium output class. It is one of 570 historic gold producers USGS lists in Sierra County, and number 4 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold
Deposit type
Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Workings
Surface/Underground
County
Sierra County
State
California
Land status (BLM data)
Federal land in a US Forest Service national forest or grassland
USGS record
10034760

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

This location is mapped as federal land. Public land is not an invitation to enter old workings. Ask the managing agency about access, claims and closures.

Gold sites nearby

576 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Sierra County page lists the biggest.