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Placer Gold Claim For Sale In Montana - Wildcat No. 1

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Have you dreamed of owning your own gold claim in Montana? 

Spend your summer prospecting for gold and exploring the pristine wilderness of the Bitterroot Mountains.

Prospect, hunt, fish, hike, camp, horseback ride and explore on your ATV from the basecamp on your very own gold claim in Mineral County, Montana! 

From gold prospecting, rock-houding, treasure hunting to world class trout fishing, this is the place to spend your mining vacation.

The Wildcat No. 1 Placer Gold Claim is located in a historically rich area of Mineral County, Montana. Extensive tailing piles are still visible, indicating that the early prospectors were doing well along this section of the creek.

Secluded, behind a locked USFS gate, the Wildcat No. 1 Placer Gold Claim has a fairly easy terrain and is an ideal claim for anyone whose mobility is impaired or where new miners can get started in a not too difficult mining environment. If you are looking for a quiet, beautiful place to spend your summer mining season, this exceptional piece of heaven is just for you!

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Do you have gold fever? 

Do you want your own claim in NW Montana?

Please visit the sites below for full information on the claims for sale. 

marneaffeld@mac.com

509-389-2606

Wildcat 

Gray Lady Down

Bonanza Gulch

Barber Gulch

Southern Cross

Hard Times No. ! & 2

Hard Times No. 3

Eden's Gate

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Barber Gulch

Barber Gulch Placer Gold Claim

SE 1/4 of Section 25 and the N 1/2 of S 1/2 Section 30, Township 16 North, Range 28 West

Cedar Creek Mining District

Mineral County, Montana

Claim is presently removed from the market. Commercial mining and exploration will begin in the spring of 2012.

 160 Acres

Non-Patented  

The Barber Gulch Claim is located approximately 25 miles from Superior, Montana in a pristine, wilderness environment. Majestic beauty, abundant wildlife, fantastic fishing and great gold; what more could one ask for?

There are enormous tailing piles, evidence from all the work done in the gulch by the early miners. Every season's snow and major melt over the past hundreds of years has carried rich new material into the canyon, creating the potential for rich streambed deposits. Massive boulders and extensive exposed bedrock in shallow water make the Barber Gulch Placer Claim a dredger's dream.

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Southern Cross

Southern Cross Placer Gold Claim

W 1/2 Section 36, Township 16 North, Range 28 West

Claim is presently removed from the market. Commercial mining and exploration will begin in the spring of 2012.

 160 Acres

Non-Patented 

Cedar Creek Mining District

Mineral County, Montana

 

The Southern Cross Placer Gold Claim offers impressive mining opportunities. An extensive amount of exposed bedrock as well as the natural streambed support productive gold recovery. The claim is suited for most types of gold mining activites from panning, sluicing and high-banking to metal detecting, dowsing and dredging. 

The history of Mineral County is rich in gold. Present day prospectors can take a step back into the glory days of mining. The old timers didn't get it all. The Gold Prospectors Association of American estimates that 85% of the earth's gold is still loose on the planet, waiting to be found.

 

Every season's snow and major melt over the past hundreds of years has carried rich new material into the canyon, creating the potential for rich streambed deposits. Massive boulders and extensive exposed bedrock in shallow water make the Southern Cross Placer Claim prospector's paradise.

 

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Photo Gallery Of Claims For Sale - Mineral County, Montana

Do you have gold fever? 

Do you want your own claim in NW Montana?

Please visit the sites below for full information on the claims for sale. 

Wildcat 

Bonanza Gulch

Barber Gulch

Southern Cross

Hard Times No. ! & 2

Hard Times No. 3

Eden's Gate

Click here to visit Gold Prospectors Supply Company

Bonanza Gulch

Bonanza Gulch - 

Cedar Creek Mining District                

Mineral County, Montana               

Claim is presently removed from the market. Commercial mining and exploration will begin in the spring of 2012. We are encouraged and excited with test results to date. 

160 Acres 

The Bonanza Gulch Claim is ideally suited for most types of gold mining activities from panning, sluicing and high-banking to metal detecting, dowsing and dredging. The claim is located in one of Montana's richest gold-producing areas, Mineral County, home of the Cedar Creek Gold Rush. 

If you would like to own your own Montana Placer Gold Claim, the Bonanza Gulch claim is truly a treasure. History is written all over this claim. 

  

The claim is located approximately 25 miles from Superior, Montana. The claim is accessible from mid-June through mid-October. The area receives heavy snowfall every winter making for an exciting Spring run-off.

For More Information On The Bonanza Gulch Placer Gold Claim 

Do you have gold fever? 

Do you want your own claim in NW Montana?

Please visit the sites below for full information on the claims for sale. 

Wildcat 

Gray Lady Down

Bonanza Gulch - 

Barber Gulch

Southern Cross

Hard Times No. ! & 2

Hard Times No. 3

Eden's Gate

Click here to visit Gold Prospectors Supply Company

Do you have gold fever? 

Do you want your own claim in NW Montana?

Please visit the sites below for full information on the claims for sale. 

Wildcat 

Gray Lady Down

Bonanza Gulch - 

Barber Gulch

Southern Cross

Hard Times No. ! & 2

Hard Times No. 3

Eden's Gate

Hard Times Mine No. 1 & 2

Hard Times Mine No. 1 & 2 - Two claims joined to facilitate access.

Claim is presently removed from the market. Commercial mining and exploration will begin in the spring of 2012.

 Cedar Creek Mining District

Mineral County, Montana

Mineral County is located in the vast "big sky country" of Montana. The crest of the Bitterroot Mountains divides Montana from Idaho and serves as the county’s western boundary. The topography varies from remote, high alpine lakes to whitewater streams and from heavily forested ridges to smooth rolling meadows. 

Hard Times No. 1

W 1/2 of NW 1/2, Section 1, Township 15 North, Range 27 West

40 Acres

Hard Times No. 2

W 1/2 of SW 1/4, Section 1, Township 15 North, Range 27 West

40 Acres

Non-Patented 

These two claim are prime, gold bearing properties. Test results have been most encouraging when panning, sluicing and test dredging. The Hard Times Mine No 1 & 2 has not been actively mined since the great Cedar Creek Gold Rush.  The claim has not been worked by us beyond routine sampling and assessment work.  

Removed from the market - no longer for sale. Will be explored extensively in 2011-12 season. 

Marlene Affeld

509-389-2606

marlene@nandugreen.com

 

The Hard Times Placer Gold Claim offers impressive mining opportunities. An extensive amount of exposed bedrock as well as the natural streambed support productive gold recovery. The claim is suited for most types of gold mining activites from panning, sluicing and high-banking to metal detecting, dowsing and dredging.  

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Placer Gold Claim For Sale In Montana - Gray Lady Down

Gray Lady Down Placer Mining Claim

NW 1/4 Section 28, Township 18 North, Range 29 West

Mineral County, Montana

100 Acres

Non-Patented 

The Gray Lady Down Placer Gold Claim offers impressive mining opportunities. An extensive amount of gravel bars, as well as the natural streambed, support productive gold recovery. The claim is suited for most types of gold mining activities from panning, sluicing and high-banking to metal detecting, dowsing and dredging. 

There are several fallen giant cedar trees along the creek bank; the root masses of these massive trees are ripe for metal detecting. 

This claim is located approximately 10 miles from Saint Regis, Montana on Ward Creek Road. The road to the claim is accessible from May through snowfall, normally late November. The road is maintained and is in very good condition. 4-Wheel drive is not required. 

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Photo Gallery Of Claims For Sale - Mineral County, Montana

Do you have gold fever? 

Do you want your own claim in NW Montana?

Please visit the sites below for full information on the claims for sale. 

Wildcat 

Bonanza Gulch

Barber Gulch

Southern Cross

Hard Times No. ! & 2

Hard Times No. 3

Eden's Gate

Click here to visit Gold Prospectors Supply Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avalanche Danger

By: Marlene Affeld

Have you ever witnessed an avalanche? They are awesome, terrifying and among the greatest dangers to human life that one may encounter in the back country. In the United States, over the past ten years there has been an average of 25 avalanche fatalities per year. The majority of avalanches affecting people are triggered by people. Skiers, snowmobilers and everyone that travels in avalanche-prone areas should remain vigilant and aware.

An avalanche is a rapid and abrupt mass flow of snow, generally mixed with water and air that thunders down the mountainside, burying anything in its pathway. Typically avalanches are caused by an over-burden of snowpack that is too massive and unstable for the slope that supports it. As an avalanche crashes down the mountain it will also tear loose trees, rocks and boulders that become part of the devastating barrage.

It is extremely dangerous in the mountains when a period of very cold weather is followed by a chinook or sudden warming trend or when rain is falling on snow pack. Free flowing water in the snow pack lubricates weak or fragile layers of the snow and often massive avalanches result. Like intense snowstorms, this is a very dangerous time to be traveling in the mountains.

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Winter Hazards - Be Prepared

By: Marlene Affeld

 

Montana - “The Last Best Place” is a land of contrasts. We are blessed with high mountain ranges and deep fertile valleys, singing mountain brooks and raging rivers. The weather is, however, one of our biggest contrasts. 

  

 

Winter storms are the most life-threatening of any natural hazard Montanans face. Accurate statistics on winter related deaths are hard to tally, however Montana has one of the highest cold weather related death counts in the nation.

 

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Placer Claim For Sale In Montana - Hard Times No 3

Hard Times Mine No. 3 

50 Acres

Non-Patented 

W 1/2 Section 12, Township 15 North, Range 28 West

Cedar Creek Mining District

Mineral County, Montana

Claim is presently removed from the market. Commercial mining and exploration will begin in the spring of 2012.

 For more information please contact:

Marlene Affeld

marlene@nandugreen.com

The Hard Times Mine no. 3 has not been actively mined since the great Cedar Creek Gold Rush. The claim has not been worked by us beyond routine sampling and assessment work.

Gold is recovered from the stream bed and bench gravels located along the entire length of the claim. The gold originates from veins associated with igneous dikes that crosscut the northward extension of the Bitterroot Mountains. Chalcopyrite is the predominant ore material, quartz is plentiful. Copper and silver, in small amounts have also been found. 

The Hard Times No. 3 Placer Gold Claim has exposed bedrock outcroppings and several natural gravel bars, a diversity that offers outstanding spots to pan, high-bank, dredge, sluice or metal detect. The incredible potential of this claim would keep anyone prospecting for a lifetime.

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Cedar Creek History

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Ocean Front Property in Montana

Northwestern Montana is blessed with magnificent mountains.

By: Rod Benson
Earth Science Teacher at Helena High School

Ocean Front Property in Montana Map Courtesy of Chris Scotese, PALEOMAP Project www.scotese.com When dinosaurs roamed . . .  During much of the Cretaceous Period (144 to 65 million years ago) a large portion of Montana was covered by the waters of a shallow, inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway. The sea was formed as west-central North America was subsiding to an elevation below sea level. As this sinking occurred the area filled with water from the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean. Source of the sediment . .  Between 80 and 40 million years ago, tectonic forces were building the Rocky Mountains in western Montana and Idaho. Rivers flowing eastward from these mountains transported massive amounts of sediment (sand, silt, clay) to this sea. As the land cycled between periods of uplift and subsidence, the seaway expanded or shrank, resulting in dramatic east-west shifts in the location of the coastline. Where do I drop you off? . .  Changes in the location of the coastline also caused changes in the type of sediment deposited in different areas. . . Sand was deposited closer to the coast, whereas silts and clays settled to the bottom in deeper waters. As layers of sand, silt and clay became buried, they were compressed and turned into the sedimentary rocks found today in central and eastern Montana, and throughout the rest of the west-central United States. For example, the “Rimrocks” of Billings are made of sand deposited at or near the shoreline of the ancient Western Interior Seaway. Source: Monahan, Glenn and Chanler Biggs. Montana’s Wild and Scenic Upper Missouri River. Missoula, Montana: Northern Rocky Mountain Books, 1997. Terms: subsidence, deposition