Consumnes Eureka 20 acer Mining Claim on the Nort Fork Consumnes River - farm & garden - by owner - sale - craigslist (2024)

Gold Mining Locations on the Cosumnes River The Cosumnes River is an important gold bearing river traversing through El Dorado and Amador counties in Northern California. The river originates from the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and flows for about 50 miles through the Central Valley, before emptying in the Mokelumne River. The river is divided into three major forks; the south fork, the middle fork and the North fork. Each of the forks was dotted with gold claims in the 1850s with miners coming in from all over the world. The river had a number of mining towns along its reach, including sites such as Playmouth, Sloughhouse, Elk Grove, Racnho Murieta and Wilton. The following were some of the major mining centers on the river during the height of the California Gold Rush. Capps Crossing Capps Crossing is a good location to prospect for gold on the Cosumnes River. It is situated on the North Fork of the river at an elevation of about 5100 feet next to the Eldorado National Forest. Here you get a chance to prospect for gold on the river enjoy bid watching, hiking, rock climbing or just camping under the shade of the fir and cedar trees. Grizzly Flats This was another important mining town on the North Fork of the Consumnes River. It is located at about ten miles to the southeast of Placerville. The Grizzly flats town grew as a result of the quartz and hydraulic gold mining along the Consumnes River. Today the Grizzly Flat district is located in south central El Dorado County and is about 25 miles east of Placerville. With further gold discovery around its site, the town continued to grow. Some of the major mines around the Grizzly Flats include the Mt. Pleasant mine which was established in 1851. The area surrounding Grizzly Flats was rich in both lode and placer mines with mining being done well into 1900s. Surrounding Creeks and Gulches The richness of the Cosumnes River is quite well known, but there are many other areas in the surrounding forest that are extremely rich too. The early miners worked many of these areas using ground sluicing and other placer mining methods, but there were other areas that were completely overlooked. Gold prospectors today can successfully find gold be exploring these lesser known tributaries of the Cosumnes River. Even dry gulches with no perennial water flow will still accumulate placer gold. One of the best ways to find this type of gold is by metal detecting, which allows the prospectors to explore these areas without water and locate gold nuggets. Drywashing is another method that can be used, but the soil needs to be fully dry for this to work properly, generally just for a few months during the summer. Traditional placer mining techniques like gold panning will work just as well today as they did for the early miners along the Cosumnes River and its tributaries. They may have gotten most of the easy gold, but will some hard work you can still recover a considerable amount of gold in this area today. While most prospectors today focus their attention on placer gold, there are many hard rock mines in the mountains around the Cosumnes River. Many of these old mines still have high-grade ore. Using a metal detector to locate specimens around old mine dumps is something to consider.
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For Those Who May Not Be Familiar with What a Mining Claim Is; Read!!
F.A.Q. Mining claims are a tangible asset just like any other Real property (real estate) and show lifetime proof of all interests in minerals in the area specified by the above claim. Once you own this claim and the associated mineral rights, you will own them for life as long as you keep up with the annual fees. This claim can be bought, sold, leased or used as collateral, just like any other piece of real estate. A mining claim can be willed or passed down to future generations as part of a trust or your estate, or you can trade it, lease it out for a period or time (or indefinitely), gift it to a family member or friend and you can also transfer or sell just an interest in it in part or in its entirety just like any other real property using a quitclaim deed which is a recordable conveyance. In other words, you could sell a 25% or a 50% share in it if you wanted in order to bring on a partner in the future - or you could sell the entire claim in whole. In order to hold on to your claim for life, you will need to pay an annual maintenance fee to the Government (BLM, not us) every year. Currently, the maintenance fee is $165 per year per 20-acre claim that you own, and it is due on September 1st of every year. NOTE; If you own fewer than 10 claims nationwide you can file a Small Miners Waiver and you will only have to pay $15 per year for your maintenance fee instead of $165. We guarantee that all past fees have been paid in full and there are no outstanding debts or amounts owed on the claim prior to the transfer of ownership into your name. The federal government retains ownership of the land - you will not have to maintain liability insurance in case someone gets injured on your claim due to no fault of your own. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
CAN YOU BUILD OR CAMP ON YOUR CLAIM? Under federal law in order to occupy the public lands under the mining laws for MORE than 14 calendar days in any 90-day period, a claimant must be involved in certain activities that (a) are reasonably incident; (b) constitute substantially regular work; (c) are reasonably calculated to lead to the extraction and beneficiation of minerals; (d) involve an observable on-the-ground activity that can be verified; and (e) use appropriate equipment that is presently operable, subject to the need for reasonable assembly, maintenance, repair or fabrication of replacement parts. All five of these requirements must be met for occupancy to be permissible. Although it is possible to build a permanent structure on a mining claim, it is extremely expensive and you will have to jump through way too many hoops to consider it easy to do. It would have to be in support of a commercial, year-round mining operation for starters, and you would need to post a large reclamation bond to ensure that if you ever abandoned your claim, the bond would pay for the removal of the structure and the reclamation or the area. So in short, it is technically possible to build on your mining claim, but just be aware that it is very difficult and expensive to do. You are allowed to Stay in an RV, Camp trailer or Anything not considered a Permanent Structure.
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HOW TO TRANSFER OWNERSHIP OF: Mining Claims work if I decide to sell my claim in the future? A quitclaim deed or recordable conveyance document is required and if you do sell or Transfer your claim someday the transfer documents should be filed within 60 days after the transfer At both the BLM and the County it was recorded in. Should you need help with selling your claim at a future date you can contact me and I will walk you through the process. I am experienced in mining claim transfers and will transfer the title to the buyer by recording a Quitclaim Deed with the BLM and the County. I will pay all recording fees for one person on Deed. If you would like additional persons on The Deed it will be an additional $15 per Person. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Bryn
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