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.

Running along the road, the creek is quite easy to access.

The creek ranges from about 4 to 12 feet wide and seems to be between 12 and 36 inches deep in most spots.

Being in a valley surrounded by mountains, annual winter snow runoff brings down gold and gems into Big Union Creek.

A cleared area is off the road near the creek for camping.

Beautifully forested area of pines and aspens.

The bends in the creek make for excellent gold catching areas.

Scroll down lower left on the listing to see larger pdf file maps and satellite views.

And see end of the listing a number of area info links to get a good feel for this area.

This claim is in one of the top producing mineral districts in all of Colorado - and it doesnt get much more picturesque either. With a short drive to civilization for supplies and lodging, you have the best of both worlds on this claim - remote yet not so far away that you cant be comfortable.

Placer gold was discoveredin this area in 1860, about a mile away from Leadville. When the news spread, the towns population grew to about 5,000 and today remains a quaint mountain town of 2600.

Current Gold Prices are over $1700 per ounce.

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

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

or $3500, paying $1750 first month, and $1750 2nd month,

or $3500, paying $1500 first month, $1000 2nd month, and $1000 3rd month.

A $99 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.

Besides gold, this area is also known for having precious and semi-precious gemstones, including the state named gemstone aquamarine, and gems such as fluorite, turquoise, crystals, opals, topaz, amethyst, and smoky quartz.

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

I am 71 and my wife 68, and we have gained the experience to select the best areas to locate claims.

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 Colorado Gold Rush.

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

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.

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.

Gold and gems discovered in our own prospecting long with the beauty of the area, makes for awesome camping and prospecting.

There are no more areas on Jefferson Creek to locate a claim.

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

This is a 40 acre unpatented, gold mining placer claim, the Big Union Creek #4, with the beautiful Big Union Creek running all the way thru the claim, in the Rocky Mountains, and the San Isabel National Forest.

The claim is legally registered with the Bureau of Land Management out of Lakewood, CO and Lake County. You own the mineral rights, not sharing with others, on the 40 acres, and use your 40 acres recreationally for camping and prospecting in an awesome, beautiful area.

For the possibility of constructing any building you for 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 approval is quite difficult to receive as most cannot live there full time with their only job being prospecting.

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.

With an approved BLM Plan of Operation, a building can be built on the land: any building that benefits and improves the claim, though you cannot live on a mining claim.

As stated by the BLM, this can be the "construction of a building, road, fence, or enclosure necessary for mining."

Current usage, is what the BLM calls, Casual Use: panning, shovel, rock hammer, metal detector, creek powered sluice box, where no permission nor permit is needed to camp and prospect.

On our visits to the claim, we gathered in and around the creek, approx. 1/8 of an ounce of gold, being worth about $220. As the BLM does not specify the amount of gold to be found to locate a claim other than gold needs to be discovered, we use this amount for a 40 acre claim as a projection of good gold potential. Someone with more time may find more. Gold prices are over $1700/ounce. Though we could never guarantee what you will find, we did locate this claim in an historically rich area for gold prospecting.

Gold has gone up over $400 per ounce in 3 years.

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

A mining claim owner may limit or restrict public recreational use of/or public access across claims or portions of claims that are actively used for prospecting, mining, or processing operations where public recreational use of a claim would endanger or materially interfere with legitimate mining pursuits.

Camp on your claim or nearby national forest campgrounds.

A claim owner does not need permission nor a permit to camp and prospect.

You can prospect as little or as much as you like.

Now that we have located the claims, you never have to declare to the BLM any gold or gems you find.

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40 acres = parcel size of 1320 ft. x 1320 ft.

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Lake County is the fourth-smallest county in Colorado by area, with an estimated population in 2013 of 7,306. Leadville is the county seat and the only municipality. Home to Mount Elbert, the mountains summit at 14,440 feet is the highest peak both in Colorado and the whole Rocky Mountain Range.

The town of Leadville is surrounded by some of the best scenery in Colorado, Mount Elbert and Mount Massive, the largest mountains in the state. Those, along with several large lakes, makes Leadville an excellent hub for outdoor recreation. Hiking, biking, camping and skiing are all common.

Downtown Leadville is a national historic district, full of Old West structures, Victorian houses and sites from Leadvilles mining past. Dining and accommodations are easy to find in this low-budget town. Just far enough from Denver, Leadville provides the peace and quiet you need, when you need it. You will get a good feel for what the Old West was like.

The towns central location in the Rockies make it an outdoor playground.

Anything high mountain is game here, including fishing, climbing and off highway driving.

Downtown Leadville is home to one of the Wests most impressive historic districts, listed in 1961 to the National Register of Historic Places. Harrison Avenue is home to several blocks of dining and shopping; its easy to stay entertained strolling the streets of Leadville.

Big, beautiful, deep blue Turquoise Lake sits less than 5 miles west of Leadvilles historic district. It wonderful for year round recreation, including fantastic fishing and boating in the summer. There are over 300 campsites surrounding the lake, so its one of the best places to camp close to town.

Twin Lakes is also nearby with great fishing and awesome scenery,

This claim in this wonderful area has direct legal road access on a good Forest Service Road, with an area for camping, and gold and gems discovered in surface prospecting.

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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 Lake 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 form with the Bureau of Land Management, along with $330. By doing this, you keep the claim forever. There are no taxes on mining claims in Park County. Need 2 or more names on your deed. You must be a current US citizen with a US address to own a mining claim in the US.

I have paid the fee for this year, and is not due again until September 1st, 2022.

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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 Park County.

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The Big Union Creek #4 is an unpatented, gold placer mining claim, ideally situated on Jefferson Creek, surrounded by beautiful Rocky Mountain ranges.

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Your 40 acres is the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 22, Township 10 South, Range 79 West, 6th Prime Meridian, known as the Big Union Creek #4 mining claim, in the Rocky Mountains.

CO105260452

Driving Directions:

Take County Road 24 south out of Leadville.

To straight on County Road 7, that becomes also Forest Service Road 425, being the claim road,

Then using GPS coordinates and maps on the listing to the claim.

Is about 13.3 miles south of Leadville.

130 miles SW of Denver.

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

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The creek on the claim is a unique advantage for gold prospecting.

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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Additional Features:

Camping area is on the claim

Year round Big Union Creek on the claim for panning.

Fishing in the creek and area lakes,

Beautiful Rock specimens for you Rock Hounds

Located in one of the most beautiful mountain areas in the US.

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The Federal Government owns the land.

You are purchasing the mineral rights.

Prospect, explore, on the whole 40 acres.

You can camp on a claim while prospecting.

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TERMS

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

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

or $3500, paying $1750 first month, and $1750 2nd month,

or $3500, paying $1500 first month, $1000 2nd month, and $1000 3rd month.

A $99 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 ownership of the 40 acre claim will be legally recorded with the local Bureau of Land Management and Lake County. The quit claim deed is the correct document to be recorded for a mining claim, as stated by the BLM. This is not a sharing with others of your 40 acre claim.

COMMENTS FROM SATISFIED CLAIM BUYERS:

"Living in Colorado, the purchase of our mining claim from you has been great for family fun and recreation. We have camped overnight a number of times, and panned for gold in the creek. We were even able to find gold flakes on several of our attempts. Thank you so much!."

"We purchased a 40 acre claim in California from Mr. Leu. Our claim is everything he told us it would be: Beautiful area, great for family camping outings, and, we have found gold while panning in the creek on our claim. We could not be happier with our purchase!"

"We purchased 2 mining claims from Michael Leu over the last 2 years, one in California, and one In Colorado. We have been to our claims on several occasions, and we could not be happier! They are exactly as described, and our camping on our claims and prospecting in the creek on each claim is the highlight of our vacations. You can trust Mr. Leu. If you are looking for a great time in the awesome beauty of the west, buying a mining claim from Mr. Leu will be a blessing."

We live in Ohio. Our connection to Colorado is our daughter lives in Denver, though she is not involved with our claims. We visited her in September, then went to prospect and locate mining claims, as we have been doing for a number of years.

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, 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 4 sites online for over 25 years:

Landsalelistings, 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.

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GPS Coordinates:

Big Union Creek #4

NW 39.1649, -106.2123

NE 39.1649, -106.2074

SW 39.1609, -106.2123

SE 39.1609, -106.2074