Montana Placer Gold Mine Mining Claim MT Creek Panning Sluice Gems French Creek

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French Creek Mine
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BOUCHER GOLD Mine
20 Acre Unpatented Placer Mining Claim
on Federal Land Montana
French Creek in Montana is tucked in the woods, and has a beautiful setting. There is evidence of past mining further down south of this claim, and there seems to have been many tailings due to possible dredging about 80 years ago. The creek ranges from about 3-14 feet from the road that leads to the claim, and the depth ranges between 8 inches to about 3 feet
This placer gold Mine totals over 1281 feet of creek. With this claim you will be getting the exclusive mineral rights to 20 acres on an excellent spot on the creek for you to work at your leisure.
Commodities (Major) - Gold Deposit
Elevation:
7400 - 7800 ft.
Access:
(For maps / location scroll towards the bottom of the listing) Access to claims are accessible with a 2WD road which runs parallel to the creek, but we always recommend good clearance.
Acres:
20
Type
: Placer
County
:
Beaverhead
(2 Wheel Drive)
This is a summary of the ways in which Montana's 1985 stream access law affects the recreational use of the state's rivers and streams and incorporates the ways the law has been interpreted by the courts in Montana. The law states that rivers and streams capable of recreational use may be so used by the public regardless of streambed ownership. It also states that certain activities require landowner permission.
Because the law affects your rights and responsibilities as a landowner or recreationist, the information that follows may be of interest to you may want to look into the "Stream Access in Montana Brochure"
Recreational mining must adhere to closures and restrictions indicated in the Instream Mining Stream Classification list.
Views from above and of surrounding area
There is lodging and camping facilities nearby
Buyer will receive the following with their completed transaction:
Quitclaim deed showing full ownership of the claim. This will be stamped, recorded and verified with the County and the BLM offices.
Welcome packet with all of the rules and regulations as they relate to the State and BLM where the claim is located.
Educational documents to annually renew your mining claim with the BLM.
A CD of all of the documented images of the claim including maps of the site.
Map of claim marked and GPS coordinates.
Multiple maps showing claim location and surrounding areas for access.
Under the Montana Stream Access Law, the public may use rivers and streams for recreational purposes up to the ordinary high-water mark. Although the law gives recreationists the right to use rivers and streams for water-related recreation, it does not allow them to enter posted lands bordering those streams or to cross private lands to gain access to streams.
House Bill 190, passed during the 2009 Legislative Session, confirmed that the public has access to surface waters by public bridge or county road right-of-way. The Department, in cooperation with the affected landowner and county, is responsible for providing public passage around or through a fence preventing such access. A typical access feature would be a stile, gate, roller, walkover, or wooden rail fence. ( https://fwp.mt.gov/fishing/guide/access/streamAccess.html )
Come to Hike, Camp, Ride and Shoot - or come to pull some shiny rock$ out of the ground;-)
Access to the claim is by French Creek Road. French Creek and French Creek Rd. run parallel to each other. This is a dirt road that can be handled with good 2WD drive clearance, but the best recommendation would be 4WD or ATV. It’s always best to check the road conditions before heading out to the claim, specifically during the winter season (https://mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/). The road runs right through the claim, for easy access to park, and grab tools/equipment. You will find a couple other dirt roads in and out of the claim, in the surrounding area that can be used as well.
ABOUT THE MINING DISTRICT
French Creek is a tributary of the Big Hole River and drains the north end of the Pioneer Mountain Range and the eastern portion of the Anaconda-Pintlar Wilderness Area. The French Creek district abuts the Continental Divide on the east and the Deer Lodge/Silver Bow County line on the north. The first placers were worked in the two and a half miles of French Gulch in 1864 and the 20 claims yielded as much as 0 per ten-hour run. The best paying claims were located above the discovery and were only seven to eight feet above bedrock. Mountaineer City was well established in the Gulch when it was described in 1865 as 20 to 30 homes, two or three shops, two blacksmiths and a shoemaker shop. It had the usual assortment of saloons, a faro bank, and was proudly awaiting its first hurdy-gurdy outfit. By the end of the first four years, the district was said to have produced between and million (Lyden 1948; Wolle 1963; Big Medicine 1865).
The next period of placer gold production occurred at the turn of the century. In 1900 a connected bucket dredge was installed on the creek. Although this dredge, the Mildred, was rated at 2,500 tons per day, a production of only 1,000 tons was achieved. In 1902 W. R. Allen secured the best remaining ground and formed the Allen Gold Mining Company. Because many of the early operations were limited by lack of water, Allen had 15 miles of ditches dug to bring a large volume of water to his placer claims. The ditches were engineered to deliver sufficient head pressure to work several hydraulic giants and an Evans hydraulic elevator. Water for the two 3-inch nozzles was brought from American Gulch via a 2.5-mile ditch which was constructed at a cost of ,000. Gravels from the hillsides, pulled down by the hydraulic operation, were washed downstream to be worked in the Evans hydraulic elevator. Built by the Risdon Iron Works, the elevator was rated at 1,000 cubic yards per day, but only worked 300 to 500 cubic yards per day. Tailings from the elevator were carried away by several three-foot-wide flumes. In the upper gulch, a steam hoist and derrick were employed raising and moving boulders out of the way. The placer operation proved to be a success and produced coarse gold dust and to nuggets. Although a sawmill and a 100-ton cyanide mill were planned, Allen's activities in the gulch ended in 1904 (Mining World 1904; Lyden 1948).
Around 1910 interest in the district's lode mines returned. Several mines working true fissure veins were opened, but there is no report of production (Walsh 1910). The last period of production was sparked by higher gold prices during the Great Depression. Interesting note that more than half of Montana's current gold production is derived as a by-product from large scale copper mining operations.
Mining claims are a tangible asset just like any other Real property (real estate) and show a 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.
This Buy It Now is for full/all interest in this 20 acre placer mining claim (unless the acreage indicated in the above mine description is different). This claim covers the entire site, (unless the claim description above describes different measurements), and includes full rights to all minerals, gems and just about whatever else you may find of value on the property (except oil and gas, which are handled separately). The buyer will receive a notarized quitclaim deed to the full claim and all associated documentation showing full ownership of the claim. We pay ALL fees associated with transferring this claim into your name - legal fees, title transfer fees, document fees, notary costs, recording fees and even shipping fees, so all you will pay is the final price of the auction, not a penny more.
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 5 per year per claim that you own, and it is due on September 1st of every year.
NOTE that if you own fewer than 10 claims nationwide, we can assist you in filing the paperwork to waive the maintenance fee every year. That means you will only pay per year for your maintenance fee instead of 5. 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 - so this means that you will not have any annual real estate taxes due on your mining claim, and you will not have to maintain liability insurance in case someone gets injured on your claim due to no fault of your own.
How do Transfers of Ownership in Mining Claims work if I decide to sell my claim in the future?
First, we handle all the paperwork and costs associated with transferring this claim into the buyer's name. But if you decide to sell this claim at some point in the future, interest in a properly recorded mining claim or site may be transferred (i.e sold) in part or its entirety. A quitclaim deed or recordable conveyance document is required and if you do sell your claim someday and the transfer documents should be filed within 60 days after the transfer.
We can and will help you with the paperwork for no cost should you need a hand selling your claim in the future if you pay all of the County, State and Federal fees (usually less than to ).
But again - with regard to transferring this claim initially into your name, we take care of all the paperwork at our expense. You do not have to worry about anything. we handle the BLM transfer documentation and the county recording.
Can you build / camp on your claim?
Without an approved plan of operations, you have the same rights and restrictions as the public. If the area is open to camping to the public, then it is permissible. However, you need to check with the BLM Field Office or the local District Ranger for areas open to camping. 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 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 insure 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 - however, camping is almost always involved unless your claim is in a wilderness area, which is not very common at all.
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In addition to handling all of the paperwork to transfer this claim into your name, as well as paying all of the fees so you do not have any costs, we also pay all of the costs associated with mailing the paperwork to you as well as to the County and Federal Government for recording and sending you back certified copies.
We will ship you a folder with all paperwork, claim coordinates, maps and information on your claim, including a CD-Rom with all of the pictures of your claim upon your payment in full clearing. We ship everything to you the same business day (if payment is received by 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time) - and we will always provide you with the tracking information so you are always informed.
Your initial claim packet that we mail has an unrecorded deed so that you can show ownership immediately after payment and be able to visit your claim. A second original deed goes to the County for recording the same day, and a third original deed goes to the BLM for certification as well. Both of those originals will be returned to you so you will wind up with several original deeds - but the County and BLM deeds can take 3 to 6 weeks to be returned to you, which is why we send you the initial original on day one
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Your payment of this eBay  item in full gives you 100% ownership of this entire claim, with no other fees and/or other costs for the transfer of ownership required. This is NOT an auction for the down payment, this is NOT a partnership arrangement where someone else will own part of the claim with you, and there are NO other fees or costs for the transfer of this claim in your name.
eBay does not allow checkout on the eBay website for any Real Estate transactions - simply because it is not like selling a widget - the transfer of real estate is complicated and requires notary work, licensed professionals and recording. Note that this is eBay’s rules and not ours and it is the same for any mining claim seller on eBay
We also are not able to accept PayPal payments for mining claims, as claims are real estate and PayPal does not allow payments to be made on any real estate items, including single family homes, condos, mining claim or land purchases. We DO accept just about every other kind of payment method you can think of: Personal Checks, Business Checks, Cashier's Checks, Money Orders, Bank Wires, ACH payments, Direct Bank Deposit at any Bank of America Branch, Gold or Silver Bullion (at the day’s SPOT prices), etc. After the auction close, we will send you a secure link to handle the payment safely online if you prefer, and we can also take care of payment by mail or telephone, as we are a traditional Brick and Mortar business - so whichever method you prefer is perfectly fine with us.
We provide financing plans with no interest or fees. Financing terms are minimum of 0 down with the balance will due within 90-days via three equal monthly payments of the remaining balance after the down payment has been paid.
With all financing plans, we do not transfer the final deed into your name until the claim has been paid in full. In the event of a default on a payment plan, we do not refund your down payment - however, we do allow you to put that down payment towards any other purchase as a store credit in full. If you are financing a climate and there is less than 90 days until September 1st (i.e. from June 1st through September 1st), when the annual fee for mining claims is due to the Federal Government, we will add the 5 maintenance fee to your down payment and pay it to the BLM on your behalf thereby increasing your down payment to 5 instead of 0 - however, the 5 portion of the down payment does not go towards your principle balance since it is used to pay the annual fees to the government, therefore the actual down payment credit will still be 0. Approval for financing is automatic as long as you have a valid eBay account in good standing.