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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 UTE claim is situated in the heart of the Black Canyon Mining District on the eastern slopes of the gold-rich Bradshaw Mountains. Gold production dates back to the 1860's when prospectors discovered rich placer gold in the streams, washes and gulches. Eventually, the placer gold was traced up-stream to the source, extremely rich quartz veins, ledges, and shear zones. Many shafts, tunnels, trenches, and pits dot the gold-rich valley and mountain range.
The host rock for most of the lode and placer gold is Precambrian Yavapai schist. A long belt of schist, 60 plus miles by several miles in width traverses the valley in a north-south direction. Both east and west of the belt of schist a coarse-grained granite intrudes the schist. This granite forms most of the rugged Bradshaws and is also gold bearing. The weathered granite to the east is locally capped by basalt and not by any means as productive as the west side.The gold-rich placer mineralization occurs in the ragged schist outcrops and in cracks, fractures, and crevices and in the shallow alluvial cover. Elevations on the claims average over 3000 feet and about 15+ degrees cooler than Phoenix in the hot summer months.
The quartz carries gold that can be recovered by crushing the material with a small gas powered crusher and concentrating the material with a dry washer or other means. Gold bearing quartz veins in the schist are generally rusty from iron staining and usually vuggy. Small outcrops of altered granite, mafic, and felsic dikes cut the basement schist. Our testing recovered gold in both the schist and the altered granite.
- UTE is a 20.66 acre lode gold claim 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 claim area is good, there is no direct vehicle access. The claim is approximately 1000 feet West of the Bumblebee-Crown King road, the nearest road is almost 500 feet North.
On the day we process your deposit or payment in full, 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. This grants you immediate access to your mining 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.