Gold production on the Van Deemen Mine is believed to date from the 1930s. A section of mineralized rock was mined by open cut. Approximately 350 feet of exploratory adits, along with two shallow shafts, were driven in what is now the central part of the property. More recently, the Van Deemen area has been actively explored for both copper and gold. Copper exploration was conducted mostly in the 1970’s and was directed toward deciphering a highly faulted and sliced Laramide (?) quartz monzonite porphyry copper system. The Van Deemen area again received attention in 1979/1980, but this time as a gold play rather than copper and has essentially been explored for gold since then.

The Van Deemen Property is located in the Black Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, 50 mi northwest of Kingman, Arizona (population ~28,000) within the El Dorado Pass mining district. The Van Deemen Mine property covers 616 acres and comprises five unpatented lode mining claims acquired through a lease agreement with La Cuesta International, Inc. in 2018. The Company has also located 26 unpatented lode claims in the area surrounding the Van Deemen Mine.

There are four principal areas of historic exploration within the project area, Area III, IV, Area II, and Area I. In the early 1980s, Amselco Exploration Inc. (a subsidiary of British Petroleum) optioned part of the property conducted extensive surface sampling and drilled several holes on the property. Fischer-Watt Gold Company, Inc. conducted reconnaissance geological mapping, as well as extensive drilling, prospecting and rock sampling on the property from 1984 thru 1989. They completed several historic resource estimates as well as metallurgical testing on the project. International Star, Inc. optioned the property in 2011 and performed additional metallurgical testing on a bulk sample, re-assayed drill pulps from past drillings.