Mariposa & Tuolumne Counties, California
Documented gold claims in the California Mother Lode.
I locate, hold, and sell unpatented placer gold mining claims, and every claim goes out the door with its complete recorded archive: the location notice, the notarized deed, the county filings, the BLM receipts, and GPS corners checked against the official federal plat.
You are not buying a mystery.
Max Rygiol, Catheys Valley, Mariposa County.
Coming soon
First Pick Placer
A 20-acre placer claim in the Mariposa County gold country, coming this winter. Creek-side camp, paved county road frontage, and the same complete recorded documentation every Northern General claim comes with.
The standard
The paperwork is the product.
Most claim sellers hand you a serial number and a hand sketch. I hand over the recorded archive (the county-recorded notice, a notarized deed and clean chain of title, BLM receipts showing fees current, and GPS corners checked against the official federal plat), so every fact in the listing is one you can check independently.
Gold country
The Big Oak Flat district, and the ditch that watered it.
The placer camps at Big Oak Flat, Garrote (today’s Groveland), and Deer Flat produced roughly $25 million in gold at 1850s prices, on the order of a million ounces. The ground was rich but dry, so in 1855 the miners built forty miles of ditch and timber flumes standing up to 265 feet to bring a river to it. That river was the South Fork Tuolumne.