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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.

This claim is accessed off the main highway on a side trail from the free Hermit Valley Campground, in a beautiful canyon, called the Hermit Valley Trail.

The trail goes right to the river where you can also choose to camp.

Also, the historical Emigrant Trail goes north from the campground for your hiking pleasure.

Located in a beautiful valley of redwood and pine forest.

The claim is located right by the Mokelumne Wilderness Area that can be trail accessed for beautiful wilderness hiking views.

Free Hermit Valley Campground and Grouse Flat Campground in a beautifully forested area are right there and have vault toilets.

The trail access from the campground adds to the seclusion of the claim.

Located in a forested valley surrounded by mountains.

Gold prices had reached an all time high of $2000 per ounce

This area is also known for rockhounding and gemstones, including crystals, quartz and opals.

Hermit Valleyrests at 7,100 feet between Pacific Grade Summit and Ebbetts Pass along the Highway 4 corridor. Campsites can be found at the large flat at the western side of the valley and also near the eastern end at Grouse Flat. The fenced meadow at Hermit Valley is grazing land, closed to vehicles but not to foot traffic. Popular activities here include fishing the North Fork Mokelumne River, hiking along historic trails, horseback riding, and mountain biking..

To purchase our claim, the process would be, I would need your name(s) and street 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 for 2 months: $1750 and $1750.

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

or $3500, paying $700 per month for 5 months.

A $99 deed processing fee is paid with final payment,

Owner financing, No credit check. No interest charged.

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 final payment, your ownership of the 20 acre claim will be legally recorded with the local Bureau of Land Management and the Alpine County Recorder.

This is not a sharing with others of your 20 acre claim.

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.

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.

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

I am 72 and my wife 69, and we have gained the experience to select the best areas to locate claims.

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

We feel we are selling more than the gold and gems 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.

There are certain rock types that are good indicators for gold prospecting potential, one of them being granite, and the granite boulders in this river are another great sign for gold being present.

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.

This is a 20 acre unpatented, gold and gem mining placer claim, the North Fork River #1 with the beautiful North Fork Mokelumne River running through the claim, and is in Alpine County, California, in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Stanislaus National Forest.

The claim is legally registered with the Bureau of Land Management out of Sacramento and Alpine 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 in an awesome, beautiful area.

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 permanently 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.

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

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

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, though the BLM is reluctant to approve anything to live in.

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.

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 or gems 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 $1800/ounce. Gold prices have gone up over $400 per ounce in the past 3 years.

Though we could never guarantee what you will find, we did locate this claim in an historical area for gold prospecting.

We also found some nice crystal specimens up the mountain ridge,

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.

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20 acres = 660 ft. x 1320 ft.

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Alpine County California, the least populated of 58 counties in California, is located south of Lake Tahoe and north of Yosemite along the crest of the central Sierra Nevada. The California Alps as Alpine County is fondly referred to, contains 700 square miles of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Alpine County offers all year alpine recreation, two destination ski resorts, and a variety of lodging and dining facilities.

In the nearby town of Markleeville, you will find a general store, gas station, bar & grill, hotels and much more. Don't forget to bring those fly rods or fishing poles as the North Fork Mokelumne River is a well known trophy trout stream with massive rainbows. Drive ninety minutes and you will be in South Lake Tahoe and the casinos. Need an even larger town, drive an hour and you will be in Carson City, Nevada.

The claim is located in the Historic Mining District Monitor-Mogul. This was a very important silver and gold district in the 1850's & 1860's and produced 5 million in gold and silver.

Located between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe in the California Sierra Nevada mountains, Alpine County is comprised of three geographic areas known for gold prospecting --Bear Valley/Lake Alpine; Kirkwood/Hope Valley; and Markleeville/Woodfords.

Also, with more than 60 lakes and streams, Alpine County is a fishermans delight. The areas rivers offer miles of fishing.

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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 or gems had to be found on the claim, which was completed by us, as we are the original claim locators.

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Your ownership is legally conveyed via a Quit Claim deed, and legally recorded with the BLM and Alpine 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. By doing this, you keep the claim forever.

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

I have paid the $165 fee for this year, not due again until September 1, 2023.

Alpine County taxes $100/year, due again in Spring 2023.

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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 Alpine County.

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The North Fork River #1 is a gold and gem placer mining claim, ideally situated in Alpine County, that has a history of gold discoveries.

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Your 20 acres is in the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 20, Township 8 North, Range 19 East, Mount Diablo Base Line and Meridian. known as the North Fork River #1 mining claim, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, about 130 miles northeast of Sacramento.

BLM claim number: CA105787356

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

Is 23.4 miles to the Hermit Valley Campground

Take CA-89 South out of Markleeville and continue on Highway 4 South.

Turn right, North into the campground at 38.5383, -119.8977

Park and follow the Hermit Valley Trail, the Trail Head going West is at 38.5383, -119.9003.

Follow the trail to the River using the GPS coordinates below to the claim.

GPS Coordinates:

North Fork River #1

NW 38.5383, -119.9096

NE 38.5383, -119.9073

SW 38.5347, -119.9096

SE 38.5347, -119.9073

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 North Fork Mokelumne River running through 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:

Lake Tahoe is an hour and 10 minutes North,

Yosemite National Park is 2 hours south.

Pure running North Fork Mokelumne River on the claim for panning.

Great fishing in this River.

Nearby National Forest campground.

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.

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

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

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TERMS:

To purchase our claim, the process would be, I would need your name(s) and street 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 for 2 months: $1750 and $1750.

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

or $3500, paying $700 per month for 5 months.

A $99 deed processing fee is paid with final payment,

Owner financing, No credit check. No interest charged.

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 final payment, your ownership of the 20 acre claim will be legally recorded with the local Bureau of Land Management and the Alpine County Recorder.

This is not a sharing with others of your 20 acre claim.

We live in Ohio. Our connection to the West 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 in Colorado, then traveled to do the same in California, 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, going on now for now over 25 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.

COMMENTS FROM SATISFIED CLAIM BUYERS:

"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!"

"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 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."