Gold Mining Claims for Sale

Before you start diggings for gold, silver or any other mineral; you have to claim land or simply purchase the land from the government. In fact the US government has a complete procedure and law for claiming land. Claiming the land where minerals are discovered or expected to exist is usually termed as mine claiming; simply because once you have claimed the land a placer will be placed on the land so that others may know that it has been claimed. And claiming a small piece of lode having gold ore inside sand and ruble is termed as lode claim. The maximum area of land that can be claimed by an individual is limited to 20 acres, and incase of claiming larger land a group of people say four can claim 80 acres of land and so on.

The interesting fact is that you can not only find your own gold mine but you can also purchase a mine land from others and the ownership of the land will be transferred to you. The government has a complete law for placer and lode claims, and it varies with states; usually authorized by US Bureau of Land Management (LBM). The law applied on claiming the land for mining is derived from the General Mining Act of 1872
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IS THE LAND MINE? No, the land is not yours but it you are allowed sole right to mine for the minerals on that parcel of land.

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General Mining Act

The claims by individuals and companies are governed by the General Act of 1872. Its purpose is to authorized individuals and companies to extract minerals from the land. They monitor all the activities of the process of mining and they may also impose taxes as per cost of the minerals extracted. The act was approved during the excavation of gold from a very popular mine Gold Rush in California.

All the citizens of United States aged 18 or above have the right to claim lode or placer mine as per law of the act. Although any land can be purchased for a purpose such as building a resort or your house, but this law is applicable on the discovery of minerals. The minerals can range from gold to silver, aluminum, platinum, zinc, lead, copper and others having good value in the market.

Although it is not necessary to put boundaries at the borders of land claimed but it is always advised to put fences of wood or rock stones around the area with a post signifying the ownership of the land; this process is termed as claim staking. Claim staking is not just about putting fences but it requires a legal procedure and documentation at the Clerk of the County and US Bureau of Land Management; they authorizes you to set boundaries of your claimed land.

The General Mining Act of 1872 cover two kinds of land claims, which are lode and placer claims. The lode claim is defined as claim of land on ruble or usually termed as hard-rock claim, which may have deposit of minerals. On the other hand placer is the claim of land near the river or water stream, which may have small particles of gold that are extracted through gold panning.

When planning to claim a land for extraction of the land it is important to know here that when a land is claimed, it is termed as unpatented claim because the process of extraction has not yet started. If the process of extraction of the minerals do not start within six months of the claim than the authorities will abandon the rights to excavate minerals and all undiscovered minerals will not be allowed to be explored. The authorities may also issue a fine in addition to abandoning the claim.

But if sufficient work of excavation starts on time the land will be termed as patented land and the owner of the land will have full rights to extract and mine, and can put land to any legal use.

The most interesting part of mining is extracting gold. There are several methods of mining gold and it has evolved with decades. For instance ancient civilizations used different methods to mine gold and it would have been very difficult at that time. But new and improved techniques are developed and some are replaced with machinery. When we hear of mining we usually think of tunnel blasting and drilling; in fact it is defined as exploration and collection of gold.