Nugget Gulch #2
20.66 Acre Lode Mining Claim in the Bradshaw Mountains of Arizona
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• Interest Free Custom Payment Plan Available, call 623-374-5411 for details
• BLM (Bureau of Land Management) maintenance fee paid directly to BLM, currently $200.00 a year for each claim.
The Nugget Gulch claim group is located in a valley of gold bearing Yavapai schist, the basement rock that strikes well over 80 miles in a north-south direction and is several miles or more in width. Much of the schist is covered with alluvium and the placer gold is generally found under the alluvium and in the cracks, fractures, and crevices of the schist host rock. In our testing, we recovered fines, flakes and pickers of placer gold in the alluvium above the bedrock and a few small nuggets in fractured bedrock.
Gold bearing narrow quartz veins traverse the schist in this entire area and our testing recovered fine gold when samples of quartz was pulverized minus 80 mesh and ran through our Desert Fox Gold Wheel.- The Nugget Gulch claim group consists of four 20.66 acre unpatented lode gold claims located in Yavapai County about 55 miles north-northwest of Phoenix. The nearest full-service town is Black Canyon City, approximately 14 miles to the south on Hwy 17. Black Canyon City has restaurants, bars, groceries, gas, propane and numerous RV parks.
Access to the claims is good via a narrow dirt road that traverses all 4 claims with a high centered 2 wd.
The claims are between 3000-3300 feet in elevation and reasonably flat, traversed by several dry desert washes. Placer gold has been recovered in the washes, gulches and higher ground. The claim group by road is approximately 1200 feet west of the Bumblebee-Crown King road.
The nearest water is east of the main road about 1800 feet from the claims at a well. You might get permission for water from the local rancher if you don't camp near or abuse his water situation.
There are numerous level areas to park an RV or travel trailer just off of the main road. But before attempting to tow a trailer or take a RV into the claims you might check the road first as road conditions change with each rain storm.
On the next business day, you will receive an email from us that includes: your receipt, a copy of the topographical map for your claim, a link to your claim plotted in Google Earth and the GPS coordinates for your claim.
Within 2 weeks you will receive your claim packet in the mail that will contain hard copies of these documents as well as the Location Notice and a full size topographical map. Upon payment in full, we process the claim into your name with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and County.
You are responsible for the annual maintenance fee due to the BLM, payable from January through August, effective upon date of purchase, in order to keep the claim active. The current rate is $200.00.
Contact us to prospect the claim on your own!
New Claim Tour:
You can schedule a tour of your new claim(s) with our field tech. Our tech will guide you to your claim and show you to a corner post of it. They will be sure to point out any specific areas of interest and help you start your new gold mining adventure right! The New Claim Tour starts at $500.00. If you purchase the claim on the day of the tour, it will be applied towards your purchase. Please call us to discuss and arrange this service.