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CALIFORNIA GOLD!!!
NEAR THE MIGHTY KERN RIVER
JUST TWO HOURS DRIVE FROM THE LOS ANGELES AREA!!!!
EXPOSED BEDROCK WITH TONS OF CRACKS AND CREVICES!!!
THERE ARE MANY GULTCHES WITH SEASONAL WATER . GREAT FOR METAL DETECTING, DRY WASHING, AND HIGH BANKING DURRING THE WATER SEASONS IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOTHER LODE OF KERN COUNTY!
KEYSVILLE ROAD RUNS RIGHT ABOVE THIS CLAIM, HAS RV ACCESS,
WITH MANY ACCESS ROADS FOR 4X4s AND MANY ATV ROADS.
THIS IS A LOT OF MINING.
Red Wolf 6
80 ACRE PLACER MINING CLAIM
Red Wolf 6 - N 1/2 NE 1/4 / Sec 10 / T. 27S / R. 32E / MDM
camc#0287276
Do you and your family enjoy exploring, camping, rock hunting, metal detecting and mining FINDING REAL GOLD??? Yes? Then, we have the PERFECT claim for you. Take your family away from the city and into the fresh mountain air of the Sequoia National Forest a few hours drive from Los Angeles, in the Sierra Nevada's to spend quality family time. Enjoy delicious barbecues and beautiful warm summer evenings with your family. Listen to the rivers and creeks cascading downstream as you sleep ever so peacefully. Leave the stress of the city behind, and relax in the great outdoors looking for REAL CALIFORNIA GOLD!!!!
Keyes, formerly known as the Old Keyes, located in 1852 by Colonel Keyes, is one of the famous mines of Kern County. The holdings consist of 100 acres in Sec. 26, T.. 26 S., R. 32 E., M.D.M., in Keyes district, about 3 miles southeast of Isabella, in the Sequoia Forest Reserve, at an elevation of 3600 feet. Owners, Keyes Mining Company, of San Diego. J.L. Hooper, president, Geo Stavent, superintendent. The vein (Keyes) is 2 feet wide, strike northeast and southwest, dip 70 degrees E., granite walls, free milling, high grade. Workings consist of several thousand feet of tunnels, drifts and stopes. Maximum depth about 450 feet. Mine equipment consists of cars, shops, assay office and dwellings. Ore is reduced in a new 5 stamp mill (1100-pound stamps), operated by distilliate, costing about 8 cents per gallon. Nine men employed. Producer.Bibl. :reports XII, P. 145; and XIII, P. 191. U.S.G.S., Mineral Resources of U.S.Keyesville Placer, consists of 40 acres in Sec. 36, T. 26 S., R. 32 E., M.D.M., owned by G. Henschkel. Elevation 3400 feet. Old river deposit, worked in winter by ground sluicing. Course of channel northwest and southeast, granite bedrock, pay gravel 5 to 10 feet deep, easily worked, small producer.
Numerous diggings and mine shafts and lots of gultches where the Kern was known to carry gold next to Hog Eye gultch. There is seasonal water for dredging in Class H areas. Highway 178 is the Eastern boundary of the claim with several places park. . This claim can quite easily pay for itself obviously if a person took a little time and worked it. This is also a claim where a person can come down onto a crack or a crevice and find a decent size gold nugget or two. Obviously that can’t be guaranteed, and no amount of gold can be guaranteed in the mining business. It's all about location, location and known gold and actually performing some work. In this area and on this river this could quite possibly pay itself off with one crevice. If you actually work this claim with equipment that catches the gold, WE believe there is still an outrageous amount of gold left on this claim, but you are talking a lot of work and enjoyment and good times. YOU WILL OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE GOLD BEARING MINERALS ON THIS 80 ACRE PARCEL OF LAND IN THE CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN MOTHERLODE! THIS IS NOT A PERCENTAGE OR SHARE, THE ENTIRE MINING CLAIM WILL BE YOURS FOR LIFE. THIS MINING CLAIM IS IN KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA! CLOSE TO LAKE ISABELLA AND BAKERSFIELD.THERE ARE MANY SEASONAL CREEKS AND STREAMS THAT FLOW INTO THE KERN RIVER THERE ARE MANY OLD DRIFTS, PITS, TUNNELS AND SHAFTS, AND MUCH MORE, SUCH AS HOT SPRINGS THROUGHOUT THE KERN RIVER CANYON!!
PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION IN SUCH AREAS WHEN DEALING WHERE OLD MINING OCCURED AND DREDGING IN THIS RIVER!!!
THIS IS AN UNPATENTED PLACER CLAIM, FOR SURFACE MINING, DRYWASHING, METAL DETECTING, ROCKHOUNDING, HIGHBANKING, SLUICING, DREDGING, AND MORE!!! This is a TRUE RIVER CLAIM in a very productive and historic area. BUYERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO LOOK AT AND SAMPLE THE MINING CLAIM BEFORE PURCHASE. DUE DILIGENCE IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BUYER. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE ON THIS PARCEL!
KERN COUNTY DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY YEARLY MINING CLAIM TAX LIKE HOW MANY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES PRACTICE. Please take into consideration that you are not bidding on PRIVATE land. This land is owned by the United States Government. When you purchase a mining claim, you will ONLY own the MINERAL RIGHTS to the property and the right to extract them. Please use due diligence and research the laws of mining before purchasing a claim. This is a legal and binding auction and highest bid will be accepted. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO END THIS AUCTION AT ANY TIME DUE TO OTHER LISTINGS ADS.
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BUYER INFO: This is an approved bidder auction so you must e-mail us with your contact information such as name, and a phone number, so we can get in touch with you if we feel it is necessary. There has been a lot of phony fraudulent user ID’s created by competitors. This is a low reserve auction. Balance of payment on this item is required within 72 hours of the auction closing. We will accept PAY-PAL, money orders, cashiers’ checks, and most wire transfers. HOWEVER, you must be registered with Pay Pal to place a bid on our auction. THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL TRANSFER AND DOCUMENT FEES OF $125.00 FOR THIS CLAIM. THIS IS TO INSURE YOUR CLAIM GETS PROPERLY TRANSFERRED AND RECORDED AT THE APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENT OFFICES. YOU WILL RECEIVE ALL NEW ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS DIRECTLY TO YOU FROM KERN COUNTY AND THE BLM WITHIN 2-6 WEEKS, DEPENDING ON HOW BUSY THEY ARE. You will get a copy of the notarized WARRANTY deed within 14 days of funds being cleared through PAYPAL. In addition, you will receive all original location documents, maps with GPS points, application(s) from DWG for suction dredging and whatever information that we may have on this claim.
PLEASE READ ENTIRE DESCRIPTION BEFORE BIDDING Please do not ask a question that is already answered in this auction as I am very busy. Please read the whole auction. It is a lengthy auction and the answer to your question is probably in it if you look and that is the best map I can provide you. With the directions I have given, the claim can be easily found.Thanks For Looking! GOOD LUCK!!!! ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO OWN ONE OF THE BEST MINING CLAIMS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
KERN COUNTY :
In 1851, gold was first discovered on Greenhorn Creek near the Kern River by a exploration party sent out by John C. Fremont. This discovery led to the first Kern River gold rush. Prospectors spread out finding rich placer gold yielding as much as $50 per pan and several lode deposits. In 1852, Richard Keys, a half-Cherokee '49er discovered lode gold at Keyesville. Soon afterward Captain Maltby discovered the nearby Mammoth mine. After discovery of placer gold in the Kern River in the spring of 1854 a stampede of miners began to the area. By January 1855 the area was swarming with miners. In August 1855 five or six arrastras were running and by spring 1857, 16 were running. From 800 to 1,000 men were working the mines. The first stamp mill was hauled though Visalia from San Francisco and erected on the river in 1856 by Abia T. Lightner. By 1858 three arrastras, and five water driven mills with a total capacity 22 stamps, were working Keyesville ore. They were all destroyed in the floods of 1861-1862. Three years later, in 1865, a 20-stamp mill was constructed on the Kern River, but it did a poor job recovering gold and was soon shut down. In its heyday the town of Keyesville consisted of 5 or 6 stores, 3 hotels, 4 saloons, a brewery, two livery stables, a wagon-making shop, 2 blacksmith shops, a barber shop, 2 butcher shops, a shoemaker's shop, express and post offices. There were boarding houses and saloons at the individual mines. After the high-grade placer deposits had been exhausted, the Euro-Americans moved on to other areas, however, Chinese miners continued to work the gravels in Keyesville well into the 1860s. The underground mines in Keyesville were idle until a 1897 revival. During this time a 5-stamp mill was erected at the Keyes mine and a 10-stamp mill at the Mammoth. Both mines were intermittently active until about World War II. The Keyes mine produced a total of $450,000, the Mammoth about $500,000. Small scale placer mining has been conducted in the Keyesville Mining District from the first discovery of gold until present. After discovery of placer gold in the Kern River in the spring of 1854 a stampede of miners began to the area. By January 1855, the area was again swarming with miners. But, even before this rush, in 1852 Richard Keys, discovered lode gold. Soon afterward, Captain Maltby discovered the nearby Mammoth mine. Abia T. Lightner constructed the first stamp mill in the area. By 1858 there were five water driven mills with 22 stamps. However, the floods of 1861 - 1862 destroyed them all. The town of Keyesville supported about 50 to 60 people and boasted eight houses, a saloon, and crude hotel. A 20-stamp mill was erected in 1865 on the Kern River, but the mill proved inefficient and only ran a short time. After the Euro-Americans had heavily mined the gulches for placer gold, the Chinese arrived to work the sands.
DISCLAIMER: PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE PURCHASING A MINING CLAIM
YOU CAN LOSE YOUR CLAIM IF YOU DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT MINING CLAIMS PROPERLY *Referenced from LOCATION AND VALIDITY OF MINING CLAIMS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA (2006 EDITION)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Is A Mining Claim?
Types of Claims:
PATENTED MINING CLAIM:
A patented mining claim is one for which the Federal Government has passed its title to the claimant, making it private land. A person may mine and remove minerals from a mining claim without a mineral patent. However, a mineral patent gives the owner exclusive title to the locatable minerals. It also gives the owner title to the surface and other resources. With a Patented Claim: You own the Land as well as the minerals. Note: Since October 1, 1994, the BLM has been prohibited by Acts of Congress from accepting any new mineral patent applications. This moratorium has been renewed annually through the various Interior Appropriations Act. It is unknown how long this moratorium will continue... Meaning, that an unpatented mining claim such as this, MOST CERTAINLY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BE SOLD INTO PRIVATE LAND WITH ANY FORM OF INTACT MINERAL RIGHTS.
UNPATENTED MINING CLAIM:
An un-patented mining claim is a particular parcel of federal land, valuable for a specific mineral deposit or deposits. It is a parcel for which an individual has asserted a right of possession. The right is restricted to the extraction and development of a mineral deposit. The rights granted by a mining claim are valid against a challenge by the United States and other claimants only after the discovery of a valuable mineral deposit. With a Unpatented Claim: You are leasing, from the government, the right to extract minerals. No land ownership is conveyed.
There are two MAIN types of un-patented mining claims:
Lode Claims:
Deposits subject to lode claims include classic veins or lodes having well-defined boundaries. They also include other rock in-place bearing valuable minerals and may be broad zones of mineralized rock. Examples include quartz or other veins bearing gold or other metallic minerals and large volume but low-grade disseminated metallic deposits. Lode claims are usually described as parallelograms with the longer side lines parallel to the vein or lode . Descriptions are by metes and bounds surveys (giving length and direction of each boundary line). Federal statute limits their size to a maximum of 1,500 feet in length along the vein or lodge. Their width is a maximum of 600 feet, 300 feet on either side of the centerline of the vein or lode. The end lines of the lode claim must be parallel to qualify for underground extra lateral rights. Extra lateral rights involve the rights to minerals that extend at depth beyond the vertical boundaries of the claim. (43 CFR 3841)
Placer Claims:
Mineral deposits subject to placer claims include all those deposits not subject to lode claims. Originally, these included only deposits of unconsolidated materials, such as sand and gravel, containing free gold or other minerals. By Congressional acts and judicial interpretations, many nonmetallic bedded or layered deposits, such as gypsum and high calcium limestone, are also considered placer deposits. Placer claims, where practicable, are located by legal subdivision of land(for example: the E 1/2 NE 1/3 NE 1/4, Section 2, Township 10 South, Range 21 East, Mount Diablo Meridian). The maximum size of a placer claim is 20 acres per locator. (43 CFR 3842)
WHAT MUST I DO TO MAINTAIN A CLAIM?
WHO MAY OWN A MINING CLAIM?
Any citizen of the United States, a minor who has reached the age of discretion, a corporation, and non-citizens (aliens) who have declared their intention to become a citizen. (43 CFR 3832.1)Once a claim/site is serialized, an annual filing must be made on or before September 1, of each year to maintain the claim/site. You must either pay the $140 maintenance fee payment or those claimants having 10 or fewer claims/sites may choose to file the maintenance fee payment waiver certification (small miner’s waiver). If you choose to file a small miner’s waiver, then you must also perform $100 worth of labor or improvements on all placers or lode claims during the assessment year (September 1, noon through September 1, noon). An Assessment Work Notice (Proof of Labor) form must be filed on or before December 30, along with the $10 filing fee per claim. For mill/tunnel sites, a Notice of Intent to Hold must be filed on or before December 30, along with the $10 filing fee per site. To learn more about mining claims/sites filing instructions, contact us or visit the BLM web page mining facts. Prices may have changes since the copyright of this page, please contact BLM for updated prices.
WHAT IS A SMALL MINERS WAIVER?
A small miner’s waiver is short for maintenance fee payment waiver certification. A small miner’s waiver may be filed by those claimants holding 10 or fewer claims/sites, instead of paying the $140 maintenance fee by September 1, of each year. If you choose to file a small miner’s wavier you must also perform assessment work and file an assessment work notice by December 30, of each year. (43 CAR 3833.1-5 and 43 CAR 3833.1-6)
WHAT QUALIFIES AS ASSESSMENT WORK?
Some of the activities that qualify for assessment work are construction and maintenance of access roads, development drilling and sampling, and buildings that benefit the claim. For more information about what qualifies as assessment work please contact your local BLM office.
BLM California State Office
2800 Cottage Way, Room W-1834 Sacramento, CA 95825-1886
Phone: 1–916-978-4400 http://www.ca.blm.gov
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