Mariposa & Tuolumne Counties, California
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.
Pennyweight Placer, on the South Fork Tuolumne in Tuolumne County. Claims are listed as they are located and cleared.
Every filing traces to a recorded public document. You can verify each fact yourself, from the source, without taking my word for it.
Currently for sale
20 acres · South Fork Tuolumne River · Tuolumne County, California
$8,500or best offer
“As close to mining in Yosemite as you can legally get.”
Mining is prohibited inside national parks. This is the first claim on the river below the boundary — and it comes with the complete recorded archive behind it.
The standard
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.
“I make no claims about gold values — anyone who guarantees you gold is selling you a story.” Northern General
Gold country
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.
“I’d rather answer twenty questions than have one surprised buyer.” Northern General