Placer Mining Claims For Sale

The Iron Horse
Placer Mining Claim

±40 Acres
CAMC#310186

Price: $3,000

ALL THREE THOMPSON CREEK CLAIMS: $6,500


  • 2wd access; Claim is on paved road.
  • Short Hike from Access Road.
  • Local gravels on bedrock.
  • Large gravel bars - river dump basin.
  • Some remnant terraces.
  • Tree roots & grass clumps, downed trees, logs, etc.
  • Medium to shallow water.
  • Mining level: Recreational to intermediate.
  • Quiet and safe area; very beautiful.
  • Fun for all!
  • Quincy is seven miles away with lodging, restaurants, grocery stores, hardware store, and gasoline facilites.

Sometimes prospectors need a break from the high-pace, high skill level claims and just need to have fun. The Iron Horse 40-acre placer mining claim on Thompson Creek provides just that opportunity. With its relatively low, but constant flow, the Iron Horse claim will provide ample opportunities to have fun and find some gold.

Iron Horse placer mining claim is located about six miles (as the crow flies) southeast of Quincy along the Quincy-La Porte Road (see vicinity map). The claim is at the sweeping left-hand hairpin corner about five miles up the hill from Highway 89. The GPS coordinates for the intersection of the Quincy-La Porte Road and Thompson Creek is shown below.

Thompson Creek drains the rich meta-sedimentary rocks associated with Claremonte Peak and Bachs Creek Ridge, which are legendary for bedrock gold. Thompson Creek also drains Peppard Flat, a large deposit of Tertiary gravels from the ancient Feather River prior to the uplift of the Sierra Nevada. Several placer mining claims are located along Thompson Creek and everyone says the gold is both coarse, like the cereal Grape Nuts (bedrock gold), and rounded (Tertiary placer gold). Grab samples from root masses, moss and cracks revealed several flakes in every pan.

The Quincy-La Porte Road bisects the claim into two parts, an upper portion and a lower portion. A large turn out along the road provides ideal staging area for all your prospecting activities as well as RV parking. An improved gravel road provides access to the upper portion of the claim. As the photos show, it is just a short jump down from the road to the water.

Prospecting skill levels for The Iron Horse placer claim are from recreational to beginner, because of its shallow depth to bedrock, low water flow, and easy access.

Gravels-on-bedrock contacts are widespread and as the photographs show, floodwaters appear and scour the rock every so often to replenish the gravels and the GOLD!

With all the cracks and fractures, prospectors with metal detectors should find abundant rewards not only along the stream but along the slopes and within the cliffs.

Miners and prospectors will have a life-time of opportunities before this claim is played out. Quincy is just a short drive away and provides good amenities, such as restaurants and accommodations. Quincy also has a modest nightlife, a movie theater, a Safeway and an Ace Hardware, as well as a series of motels and B&Bs. Sorry, no Wal-Mart. Quincy is also the county seat for the county so you can easily file your paperwork on your way through to your claim.

Ore deposits: Gold-quartz veins occur principally in slate and mica schist; some are as thick as 15 feet. The veins may be massive or consist of numerous parallel stringers. The ore contains free gold and varying amounts of sulfides, chiefly pyrite. Although some of the veins have been developed for horizontal distances of several thousand feet, none has been worked to depths of greater than a few hundred feet. There are a few small Tertiary channel gravel deposits to the south. The Recent and Pleistocene valley alluvium is gold-bearing in places.

Work Cited: “Gold Districts of California” Edition 193. William B. Clark. 1998


Click here for Google Earth Fly To to see an aerial photo of the The Iron Horse claim.

Google map it for directions to claim.
Pinpoint is on La Porte Road @ center of claim.


Estimated GPS Coordinates:
Please adjust GPS to the following Datum & Coordinate display:
Datum: NAD83/WGS84
Coordinates: UTM
Zone 10

Easting
Northing
Elevation
Thompson Creek @ Northeast Corner Boundary:
683463mE
4419574mN
3930 ft.
Northwest Corner Boundary:
683049mE
4419564mN
4138 ft.
La Porte @ Southwest Corner Boundary:
683059mE
4419160mN
3983 ft.
Southeast Corner Boundary:
683473mE
4419170mN
4599 ft.
La Porte Road @ Northern Boundary:
683376mE
4419572mN
3902 ft.
Thompson Creek @ Southern Boundary:
683106mE
4419161mN
4019 ft.

Standard Information
The Location Notice for the The Iron Horse placer mining claim has been recorded at the Plumas County Recorder's Office and the Bureau of Land Management. It is a non-patented federal mining claim. Fees are current and you will need to file appropriate paperwork to hold the property every year thereafter. Annual tax assessment on the property is approximately $1.12/acre.

BLM Fees & Advanced Geologic Transfer Fees

Upon payment, the mineral claim will be transferred via a notarized Quitclaim notice filed in your name with Plumas County and the BLM. Limited payment terms and conditions are available; information available on request.

Advanced Geologic has an exceptional automatic claim notice filing system that will maintain your annual filings for any claim in the United States. Advanced Geologic reminds you that you MUST file annual notices with both the county in which the claim is located AND with the Bureau of Land Management by the appropriate dates. There are NO exceptions and errors will lead to the loss of your claim! Are your claims filed correctly?

Advanced Geologic is a professional geologic consulting firm located in Chester, California. We not only sell quality mining claims, but we also help people work their claims. Our experience in resource evaluations, compliance and permitting and claim portfolio management allows our clients and buyers to go for the GOLD.

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