Queen Valley, AZ 85118(Pinal County)

See further down the listing the buying process and the 8 month financing offered.

See with the pictures maps and satellite views.

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A lode claim differs from our placer claims, as on a lode claim you can dig into the mountain side and can even go to the extent of building a mine shaft.

Having a lode claim is an advantage as you can dig into the claim with a shaft if you choose,

and with the creek also on the claim, you can also prospect in the creek for gold, increasing your prospecting potential.

Our lode claim has veins of valuable minerals including gold in veins (called lodes) cutting thru rocks. Quartz and gold are frequently found together and digging into the quartz vein is called chasing the vein.

Veins of quartz, smoky quartz, and fluorite are on the claim.

Located in Hackberry Canyon about 13.2 miles NE of the quaint mountain town of Queen Valley that has all the necessities, about 32 miles SE of the larger city of Apache Junction, and 67 miles East of Phoenix, In Pinal County, Arizona.

This historical area of the Superstition Mountains has the most desired claims and lives up to its reputation that is so widespread.

The legend of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine centers around the Superstition Mountains. According to the legend, a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz discovered a mother lode of gold in the Superstition Wilderness and revealed its location on his deathbed in Phoenix in 1891 to Julia Thomas, a boarding-house owner who had taken care of him for many years.

Many since then, and even today, search for the Lost Dutchman Mine, including the TV series, Legends of the Superstition Mountains.

Another good sign for our claims here are the other experienced prospectors who have claims in this same area before us.

The washes on the claim are a great advantage for prospecting, especially when the summer rains run down the mountains and buttes depositing gold flakes into the washes.

Up the mountain buttes on the claim are good areas to explore for gems with your rock hammer.

Besides gold, this is also a great place to hunt for specimen rocks and other gemstones as agate and ruby red garnets are often found in this geological region.

Arrowheads and relics are often found in this area dating back to the Apaches.

The Superstition Mountains are a rock collectors heaven including an abundance of gemstones.

This area has one of the longest histories of gemstone production.

Arizona ranks first for where all of the natural gems are located and is famous for its turquoise and petrified wood.

ARIZONA ROCKHOUDING

Arizona is one of the best states in the United States for finding gemstones in the wild. Gemstones can be found all across the state of Arizona, and over eight main types of rocks and minerals can be collected there. Arizona is an incredible place to rockhound, not just because of its diversity of native gemstones but also because of its beautiful natural landscapes.

Rockhounding is more than just a hobby; it is a lifestyle. Arizona is a fantastic place to find rocks, minerals, and crystals that can be displayed in a collection, made into jewelry, or sold to local jewelry and rock and mineral stores. There are also a variety of Arizona-based rock and gem shows that you can attend or even sell your own specimens.

TERMS:

To purchase our claim, the process would be, I would need your name(s) and mailing addresswhere I would scan and email you a signed contract, and which payment option you choose:

Total price of $3500, that can be paid in one full payment where your ownership is then transferred after receiving payment,

or $3500, paying $1750 first month, and $1750 2nd month,

or $3500, paying $1500 first month, $1000 2nd month, and $1000 3rd month,

or, $3500, paying $700 per month for 5 months,

or $4000, paying $500 per month for 8 months.

A $99 deed processing fee is paid with final payment.

Owner financing, No credit check. No interest charged

No down payment.

You can use the claim as yours while making monthly payments.

Ownership transfer after final monthly payment.

A signed contract will precede payment.

Gold prices reached an all time high of $2000 per ounce:

I am a retired teacher, and got into prospecting as a hobby with my family.

I am 72 and my wife 69, and we have gained the experience to select the best areas to locate claims.

A mining claim is an affordable way to enjoy the beauty of the land combined with the adventure of panning for gold.

We feel we are selling more than the gold and gems on beautiful land.

You would be acquiring an experience that will give you a good feel for what the old time prospectors must have felt during the days of the original Arizona Gold Rush.

TOWN OF QUEEN VALLEY

Queen Valley is the kind of town that hasnt traded in its old-time charm and identity. Its a slice of the Old West, where you may still be greeted with a sincere howdy, but dont worry, cowboy boots are optional. Located in the Superstition Mountains, this quaint mountain town has may attractions. Old Ellsworth Brewery has some nice craft beers, The HUB Bar and Grill has a great burger. Italian food can be savored at Valentinos Eatery, and excellent Mexican food is available at Casa de Mina.

Canyon Lake

The lake is open year round and admission is free to the public. The marina at the lake provides tours on the Dolly Steamboat. There are a number of lunch or dinner tours offering great views of the surrounding canyon.

Lost Dutchman State Park

Named after the Lost Dutchman, Jacob Waltz and his legendary gold min. This State Park is just outside Apache Junction.

The park provides scenic views of the Superstition Mountain, desert hikes, mountain biking and tales of visitors searching for the lost gold.

Goldfield Ghost Town

What started as a mining town in the 1890s, today is a fun way for families to revisit the Wild West. Take a walk down Main Street, witness a gun fight, pan for gold and ride a narrow gauge train around. At the end of it all, stop by the saloon and enjoy a Mammoth Burger and a sarsaparilla.

Superstition Mountain Museum

This 4,900 sq. ft. museum was established to help preserve the lore and legend of the Superstition Mountains. In addition to information about the Lost Dutchman Mine, the museum allows visitors to learn about the native inhabitants of this land the Salado, Apaches and others.

Another popular activity in this area is hiking in the Superstition Mountain wilderness area and the Tonto National Forest. There are several interesting trails with some of the most notable being the Hieroglyphic Trail and the Peralta Trail. Apache Junction and Gold Canyon offer exceptional golf courses and great restaurants and shopping to enjoy too!

If within one year you are not satisfied with your claim, you can trade for another comparable claim, just paying the BLM and County transfer fees which will be about $125.

You will also receive a free Prospecting Kit once you have paid for your claim that includes,

a Rockhounding Geology Hammer Tool, Rock Pick Axe, 3 PCS Digging Chisels Kit, with Musette Bag, and a Compass. See picture of that kit with the listing pictures.

Owning a mining claim is having access to a lifetime of great family fun and recreation, in a very beautiful, natural setting: Arizona, is a great, scenic state, where the spirit of the old west still lives on.

Mining Claims are also a great investment, as claims go up in value over time, just as land does.

if you purchase a claim from us, at no charge, I would help you if you ever decided to sell in the future.

This is a 20.66 acre unpatented, gold and gem mining claim, the Superstition Lode #3 lode claim. The claim is legally registered with the Bureau of Land Management out of Phoenix and the Pinal County. You own the mineral rights, not sharing with others, on the 20.66 acres, and use your 20.66 acres, recreationally for camping: tent, camper, or RV, and prospecting, with beautiful views of nearby mountain ranges and rock formations.

Great combination of good access with the town of Queen Valley nearby, wilderness beauty, and gold and gem prospecting potential.

See the listing onsite pictures, showing one of the most beautiful areas in Arizona.

This claim is surrounded by mountain views. Located in the Tonto National Forest and the Superstition Mountains.

Location Monument is a 4 foot wood post that has been placed, with an attached copy of our Location Notice, as required by the Arizona BLM.

For the possibility of constructing any building you or others could live in, you need to file a Plan of Operation with the BLM for approval, showing you have developed a full-time operation performing diligent mining, though the BLM is reluctant to approve anything to live in.

You do not need a plan, permission nor a permit to camp and prospect.

You do not need to be a full time prospector to file a Plan for a shed type structure.

With an approved BLM Plan of Operation, a building can be built on the land: any building that benefits and improves the claim, though is not likely anything to live in will be approved.

As stated by the BLM, this can be the "construction of a building, road, fence, or enclosure necessary for mining."

Current usage, is what the BLM calls, Casual Use: panning, shovel, rock hammer, metal detector, creek powered sluice box, where no permission nor permit is needed to camp and prospect.

You can prospect as little or as much as you like.

Now that we have located the claim, you never have to declare to the BLM any gold or gems you find.

On our trips to the claim, we found about 1/4 of an ounce of gold in the mineral vein running thru the claim and in the extended washes on the claim, value approx. $400. Those with more time to prospect may find more.

Today's gold prices are over $1600/ounce.

Though we could never guarantee what you will find, we did locate this claim in an historically rich area for gold prospecting.

We also found some nice specimens of crystals, fire agate, and chrysocolla.

I know of no more accessible areas in these mountains to locate a claim, as the whole area is claimed up, many being long time prospectors.

Gold prices have gone up $400 per ounce in the past few years.

You are allowed to post No Trespassing for Prospecting signs in and around the claim.

A mining claim owner may limit or restrict public recreational use of/or public access across claims or portions of claims that are actively used for prospecting, mining, or processing operations where public recreational use of a claim would endanger or materially interfere with legitimate mining pursuits.

20.66 acres = 600 ft. x 1500 ft.

This claim has a direct, national forest road access, areas for camping, and gold and gems discovered.

The claim is located on Hewitt Canyon Road, being one of the better roads in the Superstition Mountains.

Driving Directions:

13.2 miles NE of the town of Queen Valley.

Take N Queen Anne Drive out of the town of Queen Valley.

Take a sharp left, NE, on E Hewitt Station Road, also known as road 357.

Take a left, North, on Hewitt Canyon Road which is the claim road, at 33.3008, -111.2445

Then following GPS coordinates below to the claim.

Is 8.1 miles from the beginning of Hewitt Canyon Road to the claim,

See Hewitt Canyon Road entry picture with the pictures at the top of the listing.

The road is graded once a year.

GPS Coordinates:

Superstition Lode #3

NW 33.3876, -111.1999

NE 33.3876, -111.1948

SW 33.3858, -111.1999

SE 33.3858, -111.1948

Your 20.66 acres is located in part of the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and part of the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 35, Township 1N, Range 11E, G&SR Meridian, known as the Superstition Lode #3 mining claim, located in Pinal County, Arizona. BLM claim number: AZ105787847

This claim is in a very mineralized area, and is great for rock hounds, metal detecting, relic hunting, and dry-washing. Many historical gold rich producing mines are in this area, including the legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine, see links below. Canyon mountain views and rolling terrain. Pinal County is a region of broad desert plains and canyon mountain ranges. It is one of the largest areas of historic gold mining discoveries. Great views of the surrounding mountains and rock formations.

Our claim is in the Tonto National Forest, which embraces almost 3 million acres of rugged and spectacularly beautiful country, ranging from Saguaro cactus-studded desert to pine-forested mountains beneath the Mogollon Rim. This variety in vegetation and range in altitude (from 1,300 to 7,900 feet) offers outstanding recreational opportunities throughout the year, whether its lake beaches or cool pine forest. Hikers, backpackers, wildlife observers and photographers will find many recreation opportunities here. Rugged topography and the area's Hewitt Canyon furnishes the solitude and secluded experience treasured by many wilderness visitors.

A transfer of ownership is a sale of legal, exclusive ownership of a mining claim site.

To be a legally recorded claim, a valuable mineral had to be found on the claim, which was completed by us, as we are the original claim locators.

Your ownership is legally conveyed via a Quit Claim deed, and legally recorded with the BLM and Pinal County. A Quit Claim deed is the required legal document per the BLM.

Each year, on or before September 1st, you need to file a simple form with the Bureau of Land Management, along with $165. We will supply this form to you.

You keep the claim forever by paying this annual fee.

Fee is paid, not due again until Sept. 1, 2023.

There are no taxes on mining claims in Arizona.

You must be a current US citizen with a US address to own a mining claim in the US.

An unpatented mining claim is a specific parcel of federal land, valuable for a specific mineral deposit or deposits. It is a parcel for which an individual has asserted a legal right of possession and the right to develop and extract a discovered, valuable, mineral deposit. Mining claims are real property that you can buy, sell, or inherit. After proving the existence of valuable minerals on the land, the claim is legally recorded with the Bureau of Land Management, and the Pinal County Recorder.

Gold occurs in gravels in the metallic state and when so found has various physical characteristics. Gold is dense and heavy, it has a characteristic metallic color, and it is soft and easily malleable (it is easily formed by hammering). These are the characteristics used by prospectors to identify gold in the field.

Lode gold occurs on the claim usually in quartz veins derived from gossan formed by weathering, and oxidation of the gold, copper and iron rich veins. Gold is derived from the erosion of mineralized fault zones on the claim.

The Federal Government owns the land.

You are purchasing the mineral rights.

You can legally camp for free, with camper and RV on the whole 20 .66 acres.

A claim owner does not need permission nor a permit to camp and prospect.

Prospect, explore, and camp on the whole 20.66 acres.

This is not a sharing of a mining claim: Is your exclusive ownership.

TERMS

To purchase our claim, the process would be, I would need your name(s) and mailing addresswhere I would scan and email you a signed contract, and which payment option you choose:

Total price of $3500, that can be paid in one full payment where your ownership is then transferred after receiving payment,

or $3500, paying $1750 first month, and $1750 2nd month,

or $3500, paying $1500 first month, $1000 2nd month, and $1000 3rd month,

or, $3500, paying $700 per month for 5 months,

or $4000, paying $500 per month for 8 months.

A $99 deed processing fee is paid with final payment.

Owner financing, No credit check. No interest charged

No down payment.

You can use the claim as yours while making monthly payments.

Ownership transfer after final monthly payment.

A signed contract will precede payment.

After your final monthly payment, I will process 2 notarized deeds, transferring my claim ownership over to you, with both the BLM and Pinal county.

We live in Ohio. Our connection to the West is our daughter lives in Denver, though she is not involved with our claims, and we had a vacation home in Arizona; though now sold, we still go to AZ to explore, prospect, and locate claims, as we have been doing for a number of years.

And just a note of encouragement for you if purchase:

My wife and I have located, prospected on, and sold mining claims in

California, Colorado, & Arizona, going on now for over 25 years.

You can trust we will process your notarized deeds correctly and quickly.

In that mining claims are processed thru the Bureau of Land Management, a

Federal Govt. agency, not following thru per our legally signed contract, would be a federal crime. I certainly will do what I say, and would never put myself nor my wife in any legal jeopardy.

Also, we have sold properties on 4 sites online for over 25 years:

Landsalelistings, Landwatch, LandandFarm, and LandsofAmerica.

Our continued good status on these sites is due to our always following thru, as just one time we would not, we would not be allowed to sell on these sites ever again.

COMMENTS FROM SATISFIED CLAIM BUYERS:

"We live in Arizona and purchased a mining claim from Mr. Leu.

The claim is everything as advertised. The Superstition Mountains make for awesome views. We have camped on our claim a number of times and have found gold in the wash on our claim. We are very happy with our purchase.

Living in another state, we were a little skeptical on buying a mining claim in Arizona. But our personal experience with Mr. Leu has been a family blessing.

Our camping and prospecting on our claim has brought our family closer together.

We were so pleased, we bought a claim in Colorado from Mr. Leu, and are looking to buy one also in California as we look to plan family vacations around our claims.

Thanks Michael. We took our girls to the campsite area closest to the claim last weekend.

It was a great experience. Were really looking forward to raising them up to be adventure seekers, nature loves and Creation appreciators. This claim has already brought and provided a wonderful experience for my family. Thank you so much for the claim purchase.