West Valley Reservoir just down the road provides seven miles of shoreline and 970 surface acres for fun and recreation including great fishing kayaking, swimming, and boating.

Golden eagles, osprey, and deer can be seen in this area.

The West Valley Reservoir is one of the best kayak angling destinations in Northeastern California. It is secluded and full of fish.

Trophy-sized trout are often pulled from the reservoir.

We feel we are selling more than the gold and minerals on beautiful land.

You would be acquiring an experience that will give you a good feel for what the old time prospectors must have felt during the days of the original California Gold Rush.

A mining claim is an affordable way to enjoy the beauty of the land combined with the adventure of panning for gold.

Year round access as winter snow seldom stays on the ground for long in this area.

Off the highway into the claim there is a side road with open camping spots.

The town of Alturas with all necessities is 25 miles north and has a casino.

The claim is very easy to access on a maintained road and the side road is also good for any type of vehicle,

Lassen Volcanic National Park is about 2 hours SW, and makes for a great day trip.

A good sign here is the federal govt. has withdrawn land for minerals west of our claims.

National Forests remained open at all times during the virus with a televised invitation by the Director for families to visit them as safe places for family recreation, making our mining claims some of the safest places for your family to enjoy and get away from all the nonsense.

There have been no wildfires in this area of our claims.

Most of the Modoc National Forest, where our claims are located, is covered by basaltic lava flows. Mineral materials found on the forest include obsidian and obsidian needles, petrified wood and assorted gemstones. The Warner Mountains, where our claims are located, in particular has exposed rock in the many canyons, including finds of petrified wood and assorted gemstones.

The West Valley Reservoir is just up the road with many water activities. This good-sized reservoir, almost 1,000 acres in surface area and 3 miles long with 7 miles of shoreline, is a productive trout fishery which also has Sacramento perch and catfish. You can launch a boat, canoe, or kayak from the ramp or float tube or fish from the bank or wade.

Modoc County has a recorded gold production from 1880 to 1885, which may have come from this district. Gold was rediscovered by a sheepherder in the Warner Mountains in 1905. A boom lasted for a few years, and as many as several hundred men were employed in the mines.

Modoc County produced about 14,400 ounces of gold from 1880 through 1959.

California is one of the best states in the U.S. for rockhounding due to its extraordinarily diverse geology and wide variety of minerals.

In nearby Alturas, there is a Gem & Mineral Society, supporting that this area is good for gems and rockhounding,

CALIFORNIA ROCKHOUNDING:

Although known for its gold production, California is a virtual haven for rock and gem collectors.

Rockhounding is the recreational collecting of rocks and/or mineral specimens from their natural environment. Recreational gold panning is a popular type of rockhounding in California.

California is an extraordinary state for rockhounding.

Geological forces have created one of the widest varieties of rocks and minerals found in any state.

California was the first state to designate an official state rock.

California designated native gold as the state mineral in 1965.

California minerals including Agate and Crystals are on many lands,

Rockhounding Clubs are organized throughout the state.

BUYING PROCESS:

To purchase our claim, the process would be, I would need your name(s) and mailing addressand which payment option you choose, where I would scan and email you a signed contract.

Total price of $3500, that can be paid in one full payment where your ownership is then transferred after receiving payment,

or $3500, paying for 2 months, $1750 and $1750,

or $3500, paying $1500, $1000, and $1000 for 3 months,

or $3500, paying $700 for 5 months,

or $3750, paying $375 per month for 10 months,

A $199 deed processing fee is paid with final payment.

Owner financing, No credit check. No interest charged.

No down payment.

You can use the claim as yours while making monthly payments.

Ownership transfer after final monthly payment.

A signed contract will precede payment.

After receiving your final payment, your claim ownership will be legally recorded with the California Bureau of Land Management and the Modoc County Recorder.

This is not a sharing of the claim with anyone else.

Gold prices reached an all time high of $2000.

The South Fork Pit River is a tributary of the gold rich Sacramento River, where the creeks and rivers in this area are known historically as gold producers.

This is a 20 acre unpatented, gold mining placer claim, the South Fork Pit River Gold #1, and is located in Modoc County, California, in the beautiful Warner mountain range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and is in the Modoc National Forest. The claim is legally registered with the Bureau of Land Management out of Sacramento and Modoc County. You own the mineral rights, not sharing with others, on the 20 acres, and use your 20 acres, recreationally for camping: tent, camper, or RV, and prospecting: an awesome, beautiful area.

I am a retired teacher, and got into prospecting as a hobby with my family.

I am 73 and my wife 70, and we have gained the experience to select the best areas to locate claims.

For the possibility of constructing any building you or others could live in, you need to file a Plan of Operation with the BLM for approval, showing you have developed a full-time operation performing diligent mining. This is a difficult permit to get.

You do not need a plan, permission nor a permit to camp and prospect.

You do not need to be a full time prospector to file a Plan for a shed type structure.

Now that we have located the claim, you never have to declare to the BLM any gold or gems you find. You can prospect as little or as much as you choose.

If within one year you are not satisfied with your claim, you can trade for another comparable claim, just paying the BLM and County transfer fees which will be about $125.

Claim buyer will also receive a new, free, Gold Panning Kit:

One 14 inch Gold Trap pan; one 10.5 inch Gravity Trap pan, One combination sifter/classifier with 7/16 of an inch exit holes, one Gold Guzzler snuffer bottle, one Tweezers/ Magnifying Glass combo tool.

Camp on your claim with tent or RV, and a claim owner does not need permission nor a permit to camp and prospect.

Mining Claims as an investment: if you purchase a claim from us, at no charge, I would help you if you ever decided to sell in the future.

Mining Claims are a great investment, as claims go up in value over time, just as land does. This is one of the areas of the original California Gold Rush.

Owning a mining claim is having access to a lifetime of great family fun and recreation, in a very beautiful, natural setting.

With an approved BLM Plan of Operation, a building could be built on the land: any building that benefits and improves the claim, though you cannot permanently live on a mining claim. Current usage, is what the BLM calls, Casual Use: panning, shovel, rock hammer, metal detector.

On our visits to the claim, we gathered in and around the river, approx. 1/8 of an ounce of gold, being worth about $225. As the BLM does not specify the amount of gold to be found to locate a claim other than a valuable mineral needs to be discovered, we use this amount for a 20 acre claim as a projection of good gold potential. Someone with more time may find more. Gold prices are over $1900/ounce. Though we could never guarantee what you will find, we did locate this claim in an historically rich area for gold prospecting.

Gold prices have gone up over $400 an ounce in the past 3 years,

You are allowed to post No Trespassing for Prospecting signs around the claim.

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20 acres: = 660 ft. x 1320 ft.

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Tucked into Californias northeastern corner, Modoc County is vast, isolated, and exceptionally beautiful. As Modocs only incorporated city, Alturas serves as the county seat. A tight-knit community, which once marked the gateway to California for many a wagon train, Alturas still embodies the pioneer spirit. The city center is marked by the impressive Modoc County Courthouse framed by the picturesque Warner Mountain Range. One of the last freestanding courthouses in California, the courtroom chairs feature hangers for cowboy hats underneath. A half dozen restaurants dot the main drag, but dont skip The Brass Rail, just a mile outside of downtown where Basque food is served family style, including delicacies like roast lamb stew and picon punch. Tuck in for the night at the historic Niles Hotel. If youre feeling restless, make like a local at the Niles Saloon where the beer-and-shot combo serves as a failsafe nightcap.

The South Warner Wilderness Area, also in the same Modoc Nation Forest, is sometimes called the Crown Jewel or the Switzerland of northeastern California.

This area includes towering snow capped mountains, volcanic uplifts, pristine creeks and alpine lakes filled with trout. Located on the western edge of the Great Basin, the Warner Mountains, an isolated mountain range, rises dramatically and almost vertically from the floor of Surprise Valley. Mountain.

It's easy to understand why the area's first Native American settlers referred to this area by the phrase "The Smiles of God". With 80 percent of Modoc County remaining publicly owned, much of the forest, mountain and high desert areas haven't changed a great deal since the Paiute, Pit River and Modoc tribes were its only inhabitants.

Today, visitors will find no scarcity of recreational opportunities such as camping, fishing, hiking, cross-country skiing, hunting, wind sailing on dry lake beds, and a variety of other outdoor pursuits awaiting them in any of the four distinct seasons.

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This claim has good legal road access with an area for camping, and gold & gems discovered in surface prospecting.

A side road off the highway from the Reservoir leads to a cleared camping spot off that road by the river.

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A transfer of ownership is a sale of legal, exclusive ownership of a mining claim site. To be a legally recorded claim, gold had to be found on the claim, which was completed by me, as I am the original claim locator.

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Your ownership is legally conveyed via a Quit Claim deed, and legally recorded with the BLM and Modoc County. A Quit Claim deed is the required legal document per the BLM.

Each year, on or before September 1st, you need to file a simple form with the Bureau of Land Management, along with $165. You can also pay the fee online by credit card.

By doing this, you keep the claim forever.

I have paid the $165 fee for this year so is not due again until September 1, 2024.

County taxes of $60 are due in the Spring 2024.

You must be a current US citizen with a US address to own a mining claim in the US.

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An unpatented mining claim is a specific parcel of federal land, valuable for a specific mineral deposit or deposits. It is a parcel for which an individual has asserted a legal right of possession and the right to develop and extract a discovered, valuable, mineral deposit.

Mining claims are real property that you can buy, sell, or inherit. After proving the existence of valuable minerals on the land, the claim is legally recorded with the Bureau of Land Management and Modoc County.

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The South Fork Pit River Gold #1, is a gold & gem placer unpatented mining claim, ideally situated in Modoc County, that has a history of gold and gem discoveries.

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Your 20 acres is the West 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 9, Township 39 North, Range 14 East, Mount Diablo Base Line and Meridian, known as the South Fork Pit River Gold #1 mining claim, in the Walden Mountains, about 25 miles south of the town of Alturas, California.

BLM claim number: CA106320545

DRIVING DIRECTIONS:

Take US Hwy 395 south out of the town of Alturas,

Take a left/East at Town of Likely onto 64 which is the claim road, also known as Jess Valley Road. Is 7.2 miles from Likely to the claim,

Is about 160 miles north of Reno, NV.

Then follow GPS coordinates and maps on the listing.

For the side dirt road that is off the main road, begin at the West Valley Reservoir, then follow East to the claim where you will see another side road that leads to a cleared camping spot.

From the Reservoir, go north on Old Blue Lake Road, to a right/East on the unnamed side dirt road at 41.2241, -120.3956, then continue East to the claim using GPS and maps on the listing,

Is 2.3 miles to the unnamed, claim dirt road from the Reservoir.

GPS Coordinates:

South Fork Pit River Gold #1

NW 41.2335, -120.3779

NE 41.2335, -120.3755

SW 41.2301, -120.3779

SE 41.2301, -120.3755

The claim location monument has a 4 foot wooden post with an attached copy of the Location Notice, as required by the State of California.

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The South Fork Pit River running through the claim is a unique advantage for gold prospecting. It is a tributary of the gold rich Sacramento River.

Gold always occurs in gravels in the metallic state and when so found has various physical characteristics. Gold is dense and heavy, it has a characteristic metallic color, and it is soft and easily malleable (it is easily formed by hammering). These are the characteristics used by prospectors to identify gold in the field.

Placer gold occurs on the claim as small grains derived from gossan formed by weathering, and oxidation of the gold, copper and iron rich veins. Gold also occurs as grains flakes and small nuggets derived from the erosion of mineralized fault zones on, and upstream from the claim.

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The Federal Government owns the land.

You are purchasing the mineral rights.

You can legally camp, with camper and RV use of the whole 20 acres.

Prospect, explore, and camp on the whole 20 acres.

Known as a good fishing river.

Up the mountain ridge is a good place for gems.

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TERMS:

To purchase our claim, the process would be, I would need your name(s) and mailing addressand which payment option you choose, where I would scan and email you a signed contract.

Total price of $3500, that can be paid in one full payment where your ownership is then transferred after receiving payment,

or $3500, paying for 2 months, $1750 and $1750,

or $3500, paying $1500, $1000, and $1000 for 3 months,

or $3500, paying $700 for 5 months,

or $3750, paying $375 per month for 10 months,

A $199 deed processing fee is paid with final payment.

Owner financing, No credit check. No interest charged.

No down payment.

You can use the claim as yours while making monthly payments.

Ownership transfer after final monthly payment.

A signed contract will precede payment.

After receiving your final payment, your claim ownership will be legally recorded with the California Bureau of Land Management and the Modoc County Recorder.

This is not a sharing of the claim with anyone else.

And just a note of encouragement for you if purchase:

My wife and I have located, prospected on, and sold mining claims in

California, Colorado, & Arizona, going on now for 30 years.

You can trust we will process your notarized deeds correctly and quickly.

In that mining claims are processed thru the Bureau of Land Management, a

Federal Govt. agency, not following thru per our legally signed contract, would be a federal crime. I certainly will do what I say, and would never put myself nor my wife

in any legal jeopardy.

Also, we have sold properties on 3 sites online for over 25 years:Landwatch, LandsofAmerica, and LandandFarm.

Our continued good status on these sites is due to our always following thru, as just one time we would not, we would not be allowed to sell on these sites ever again.

COMMENTS FROM SATISFIED CLAIM BUYERS:

"We visited and panned on our claim creek in Colorado this past June and had a wonderful time. Were very pleased with the location and the claim itself."

"We have been to our mining claim in California that we purchased from you last year. The area is stunningly beautiful, and we couldn't be happier with our purchase."

"Living in Arizona, the mining claim we purchased from you has added greatly to our family outings. We are finding gold in the wash on our claim most every visit.

Thank you so much!"