jair
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Like to see any ones opinions on this and or claims as they go for a high price .
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That all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase
In what sounds like a throwback to the old West, Utah authorities are investigating allegations of claim-jumping, looking into what may be fraudulent mining claims offered for sale on eBay.
At the center of the probe by the Bureau of Land Management and the Utah Attorney General's Office is Corey Shuman's Gold Rush Expeditions, once a not-for-profit mining history organization that has reorganized into a profitable venture selling mining claims in several Western states, including Utah...
The BLM is not the only public lands agency Gold Rush Expeditions has tangled with. Utah's School & Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), an independent agency of state government created to manage lands granted to the state of Utah by the United States, has refused to do any business with the company or issue any mineral leases to third parties who may have acquired a mineral claim from Gold Rush.
In December, SITLA's attorney John Andrews sent a letter to Shuman after the school trust lands administration noticed that Gold Rush was marketing leases to school trust lands property that it had not yet acquired. The paperwork for the transaction had not yet been completed, Andrews said, yet the property in Utah's west desert was posted as available on the Internet.
"Gold Rush at that point was selling something it had no legal right to," Andrews said in an interview.
Another letter in April from Andrews to Shuman was more stern, indicating the agency had received information from the BLM and local law enforcement that Gold Rush had staked mining claims on school trust lands and sold them to third parties with no legal right. The letter included a warning that Gold Rush did not have permission to enter the agency's property to stake claims and any violation would be treated as trespassing.
Andrew's letter also asserts there was misleading information contained in the leases posted by Gold Rush.
"Our office has received input from the public about potential misrepresentations in these offerings, and from our review it appears certain of the offerings have included photographs of mines and facilities not in fact located on the subject property," Andrews wrote.
A guy I talk to occasionally from another forum bought a 5*claim as described by them with tons of color in the tailings and never made is money back his 5k bid after processing about 50k tons of the tailings so he said. Don't know him well don't know how he processed or anything but said the claim was junk.
This is why like someone above mentioned I went out, did the research on the ground and online and found my claim. If you are looking for one let me know I spent a couple months on the ground in Nevada, Arizona, and California looking for claims and found several that met what I was looking for (large tailings piles with good gold left, some stocked ore unprocessed and not to far from services)
My claim in the tailings is about 3/4 oz a ton in the tailings and the unprocessed ore was well above that. It was not the best actually but for what I wanted was the best situation because of location and I wanted an adit
We purchased a claim from them also,it was to be a turn key operation with power, water everything.The moment we started the NOI the forest service sent us legal notice to not touch the claim as it has hazardous material and would require a environmental impact study COULD TAKE YEARS REAL TURNKEY OPERATION
GOLD RUSH EXPEDITION Told us to suite the forest service, that was there remedy.
We were lucky we used a credit card to pay and the credit card co returned our money, after they got all the FRAUD info.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE NO MORAL FIBER AT ALL Yes that would be you Corey Wandering bear
Like to see any ones opinions on this and or claims as they go for a high price .
I work as a geologist doing abandoned mine lands stuff. This GRE is a pile of trash and shouldn’t be trusted. They simply stake corners file the paperwork pay the couple hundred dollar fee and then sell to unsuspecting idiots from Texas.
I installed the culverts at the Pennsylvania Mine that they are selling for 600 grand. (YouTube it) They stand outside and say millions of dollars inside. I wonder if they know these portals have been bulkheaded. I.e. closed with 25 plus feet of solid concrete. Guess not, but that chick can see gold in the rock sitting on the mine dump (NOT) so she knows if she can just get a key to that gosh darn gate on the culvert that there are millions of dollars inside. Well I have a dam key and there isn’t millions of dollars in there. Just a concrete wall with a billion gallons of polluted water behind it. Good luck getting a permit to open up an environmental disaster.
I see them show up at lots of sites I work at all over Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico filing clams on just another dumb hole in the ground that has been played out by the original miners. In fact they have accused me of messing with their claims while I am out there under contract with the Forest Service.
If anyone wants to by a claim let me know and I will show you where there are 50,000 holes I have been to that you can do as much research in a day that this GRE does and you can have your own claim for a few hundred bucks. Or you can pay these idiots $600,000 so you can chip at a concrete wall inside a culvert.
I installed the culverts at the Pennsylvania Mine that they are selling for 600 grand. (YouTube it) They stand outside and say millions of dollars inside. I wonder if they know these portals have been bulkheaded. I.e. closed with 25 plus feet of solid concrete. Guess not, but that chick can see gold in the rock sitting on the mine dump (NOT) so she knows if she can just get a key to that gosh darn gate on the culvert that there are millions of dollars inside. Well I have a dam key and there isn’t millions of dollars in there. Just a concrete wall with a billion gallons of polluted water behind it. Good luck getting a permit to open up an environmental disaster.
Not all those "old holes" are worthless. We have a few that aren't.
I will say this though, if the Fecal Circus would choose to work with miners instead of against them, they would get a lot further is reclaiming abandoned mines. back when gold was $20 an ounce, a lot was thrown away in tailings. Now that gold is near $1300 an ounce many of those "trash piles" are worth looking into. We have one grading 8 grams per ton (waiting on a second assay to confirm) and more than a few open stopes that need filled in. We get what we want and fill in the open stopes through reclamation and one more "abandoned mine" is taken care of.
Bingo. In addition to what we dewater and treat we treat the run off from a tailings pile from a mine that closed in the early 70's. If there was value in the Pennsylvania mine you could get the miner who's mining it to cover the water treatment costs instead of the tax payer in exchange for mining it. I know we keep the access to a wildlife refuge in good condition and plowed in the winter and a major backcountry skiing/ snowmobile/ hiking/ camping/ 4 wheeling area is just outside our gate. If we didn't maintain the road and plow it the road would be in rough shape and there's no chance it would be plowed at 5am on a big powder day. It's amazing how many "I hate mining types" will call our dispatcher from the gate for directions because they missed the sign to the ski area. Or they have no clue they drove by a mine producing 20,000 tons a day or ore.