Generational Wealth & Lasting Real Estate Legacy

Marcus Daly, Founder of Anaconda Copper Mining Company, acquired the subject real property estate totaling over one million acres through various purchases and assignments from 1899 to 1915.  A direct purchase from the Northern Pacific Railroad of their deeded railroad land grants dating from the 1860s and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln was included in this real property estate.  In several transactions from 1932 to 1972, Anaconda Copper Mining Company split and sold the surface estate while retaining the Mineral Estate and the deeded buyback provisions conveyed by the original deeds.  Since that time, the Mineral Estate has been owned, controlled, or in joint venture by some of the largest mining and exploration companies in the world, i.e., Atlantic Richfield Company, BP Amoco, Western Energy Company, AddWest Gold, Inc., Phelps Dodge Mining Company and finally by Canyon Resources.

WRH Nevada Properties, LLC acquired the deeded Mineral Estate in March 2016 following the dissolution of Canyon Resources, the previous owner, who had owned the property for almost thirty years.

The WRH Nevada Properties, LLC Mineral Estate is 824,989 deeded fee-simple acres in Western Montana, USA.  The property commands a large portion of the Salish and Cabinet Mountain ranges that stretch from Libby to Kalispell down through Nine Mile Valley and into the Bitterroot Mountains, dips down just south of Missoula into the Bitterroot Valley, and then heads east, taking in a large portion of the Blackfoot Clearwater Drainage all the way to the historic town of Lincoln, stretching out for over 200 miles through thirteen counties.  The footprint of this one-of-a-kind property is 1,289 square miles, larger than the State of Rhode Island.

With the purchase of the Mineral Estate, WRH Nevada Properties, LLC received arguably half of a semi-truck load of paper documents, maps, reports, and data from original records compiled on the property.  The WRHNP team has taken over four years to sort, digitize, categorize, and input data from the voluminous paper data library.  Once assembled and digitized, the database currently contains more than 600 Gigabytes of data and is now in a workable GIS (Geographical Information Systems) format.  Because the property has been private for over 130 years, this data has never been available in the public domain.  The data package consists of digitized maps, geophysical surveys, sample cards, sample locations and accompanying assays (most with original certificates), memos, notes, and other material associated with the vast history of the Mineral Estate.

Since WRH Nevada Properties, LLC has been digitizing and curating this valuable database, WRHNP has found and purchased additional geological datasets and databases pertaining to this property.  

• Properties are deeded in perpetuity.  No notice or re-recording obligations
• Significant cost savings compared to US Federal mining claims

• Porphyry-style, precious metal-rich, copper-gold, molybdenum-silver deposits, and associated skarns
• Large tonnage gold-silver deposits recoverable via gravity and/or bioleaching methods
• Narrow, high-grade gold-silver vein/lode deposits
• Polymetallic vein/lode and replacement deposits
• Sediment-hosted copper-silver stratabound Revett-type deposits, Sullivan SedEx-type silver-lead-copper deposits, and silver-lead-zinc Coeur d’Alene veins
• Beeshi-type stratiform copper-cobalt deposits
• Heavy Rare Earth and other Critical Elements hosted in marine phosphorites
• Industrial Minerals

Over US$70 million in present-day value of exploration work has been completed to date.  A charitable contribution of the historical and paper data would greatly enhance the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology at Montana Tech in Butte, Montana, mineral data repository and have real value for associated tax benefits.

Property and physical data repository donations include many original and historical pieces proprietary to this data package.

Continue this one-of-a-kind Legacy Project for generations to come.