Historic Minehaha Gold

19.8 Acre Placer Claim - Rimini District - Lewis and Clark County, Montana

The Historic Minehaha Gold Placer Mining Claim for sale, a 19.8 Acre Unpatented Placer Mining Claim. The claim is located just outside of Rimini, Montana and has been properly marked. All claims have been carefully surveyed, mapped and researched. MT105771578

This is a remote Montana gold mine. Minehaha Creek runs through the middle of the claim, provides plenty of year round water for all your mining needs. During surveying gold was easily found in the material by panning. The valley bottom is old river bed material. The higher benches are also old river bed material. The claim boasts excellent access and does get visitors driving through on the road. The claim was originally surveyed and sampled for rich, free gold deposits in the gravels. There are plenty of areas to camp near this claim. This is a unique claim that is in a valley of old river bed. The upper benches are older river bed and hold good gold.

The creek bed is over 600 feet on this claim and there is water year round. It is likely there is some native silver, sapphires, and possibly some relics to be found on the claim but the primary commodity will be gold. Minehaha Creek is known for it's gold and there are multiple lode mines along the high benches of the creek that have been feeding good gold into the creek for hundreds of years. This is not a claim to pass up!

It is likely there has been some work done after 1900 based on the remnants and items seen in the area. It is estimated by the surveyors that the claim has been worked intermittently in the early 1900's. No effort to mine for many decades is evident. The gold that you will find on this claim has been washing down from the mines, hills and gulches above and depositing and replenishing the gold on this claim. There is plenty of room to setup your sluice or highbanker and shovel material right next to it or bring it from the wide valley floor that is the old river bed. The valley floor is more than a hundred feet wide so there is plenty of opportunity here!

There is direct road access to this claim and room for staging, parking and other operations. This is an unpatented mining claim for sale. Mineral rights only for recreational mining. The land is public land. This is not a homestead or land for sale.

The best gold is on bedrock. Minehaha Creek is one of the creeks in the district that was mined by hand in the late 1800's. There is still good gold in the creek, benches and on bedrock on this claim.