🇺🇸20 Acre Gold Mining Placer Claim on Bear River, Idaho🇺🇸

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20 Acre Gold Mining Placer Claim on Bear River, Idaho
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You are bidding on the Full Price on an Unpatented Placer Mining Gold Claim on  the North Fork Boise River in Idaho State. The Placer Claim is located in Elmore County . The Boise Basin District has a documented record of gold deposits. This claim is located on the Bear
River
next to a paved road and camp site in area  with easy drive from local town.
History of Area
The aquatic powerhouse of the Treasure Valley, the Boise River winds its way through several Idaho counties, providing opportunities for fishing, boating and other recreation along its banks.  While the main Boise is considered a thoroughfare and not open to claims, there are several tributaries along the Boise River that are home to GOLD.
The placer deposits were worked first by dredges and then by large hydraulic washers.  Sometimes entire hillsides were washed away.  Individual miners resorted to panning with pans that resembled bread pans made of iron or tin.  If they were lucky they also had the use of rockers and sluice boxes.  Lode work was more erratic and less dependable; miners would work lodes for a few years until another fresh deposit was discovered in a different mining district within the Boise Basin and they would pull up stakes and move on.  Mill sites worked in a similar way.  Whole operations would be dismantled and reassembled again and again around the Boise Basin.
The Quartzburg Mining District was notable for its lode deposits. It’s still active today with the large and profitable Cumo Mining Project working the area northwest of Idaho City.
Several camps and towns were formed from the huge gold rush that took place when gold was found in the Boise Basin in the 1860s.  Thanks to the largest gold rush in American history during the Civil War, Idaho City was founded and flourished.  By 1863, it claimed over 6,000 residents, making it the largest city in the Northwest at the time.  Other businesses were set up to serve the miners, but mining was the goal of the entire settlement.  Mining was actually done
in
the boundaries of Idaho City.  Houses collapsed because the foundations were mined out from underneath them!  Though it burned a few times during it’s lively past, many of the historic buildings still stand today and can be visited by tourists and modern-day gold miners alike.
Gold Miners from all walks of life came to the region seeking out their fortunes and their own mining claims in Idaho.  Americans from the East and Chinese worked the lands and those that couldn’t hack it as gold miners took up work as merchants and farmers.  And their work paid off.  The Boise Basin was the richest gold strike ever seen in America.  More gold was taken out of the land during this rush than the California 49er or the Klondike gold rush.
s a documented record of gold deposits.
GEOLOGY OF THE AREA
Local gravels on bedrock.
Easy walk to claim
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.
Children and senior friendly – fun for all!
Claim Info:
Bear Creek
Payment info:
Upon full payment, + Plus $250 fee. We will send you a Quitclaim deed naming you as the new owner of this mining claim. All fee’s and documents required by the BLM have been filed for this assessment year. You will need to file either an annual maintenance fee or an affidavit of the performance of annual work , with a waiver form with the BLM before September 1st, 2022 And each following year. If you fail to file the paperwork properly, the BLM will close the claim. We will include the required forms to maintain the claim in good standing with the BLM, and send you copies of the following;
1. GPS coordinates to get you there.
2. You will receive the BLM recorded “Quitclaim Deed” after the claim is paid in full and you will receive the Deed 4-6 weeks later.