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Gold Mining Claims for Sale Across the American West

Some of this ground we've walked ourselves. The consignment claims we haven't, and we'll tell you which is which before you spend a dollar. Paperwork and transfer are handled either way.

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Explore Claims Across the American West

Click a pin to see the claim and what it costs. Some pins show the general area instead of the corners, and that's on purpose.

Active Mining Claims for Sale

All BLM-filed and ready to quitclaim. And prices are what the seller wants. Filing fees are already in there.

Don't see your part of the country? Tell us what you're after. We locate new ground every season, and we hear about claims before they get listed.

Sell Your Mining Claim — Zero Upfront Fees

Who else wants to sell a mining claim without doing any of the dirty work?

We've been at this over 7 years and sold hundreds of claims. The site pulls 6,000–9,000 people a month who are specifically looking for mineral rights. Small audience, but it's the right one.

You keep the claim in your name until it sells. We do the listing, the photos and the maps, and we field the buyer calls. You tell us your asking price and we add a flat rate on top of it, so what you asked for is what you walk away with. And if it doesn't sell, you're out nothing.

  • Buyers already looking — top search placements for gold claims for sale, and they bring serious people in daily.
  • We pay for the ads — thousands a month on Google, Facebook, LandWatch & American Mining Journal. None of it comes out of your pocket.
  • A flat rate, and only on a sale — we add a flat rate on top of your asking price, so you get the number you asked for. Marketing, follow-up and closing are ours.
  • Leasing, if selling isn't right — we can find operators to work your ground for a percentage of smelter return instead.

A note on timing: we're carrying a full book of consignments at the moment, so give us a call before you count on a quick turn. Priced right for the ground, claims still move fast.

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Buying a Claim Is Simple

We do the paperwork. You do the fun part.

  1. Browse & Ask

    Look through the listings, check the maps, then call with questions. Free, no deposit, and we'll give you a straight answer on anything you ask.

  2. Make an Offer

    Found the right one? Make the offer. And we can set up a site visit and sampling before you pay for anything.

  3. We File Everything

    Quitclaim deed drafted, notarized, filed with the BLM and the county recorder. Fees are in the price.

  4. You Own It

    Ten to fourteen days later your stamped copies are back from the county and the BLM, and the claim shows active in the MLRS under your name. Go mine it.

Worth knowing first

What You're Actually Buying

A mining claim works a little differently than most people expect the first time around. So here's the plain version up front. The folks who come back to us for a second claim are the ones who knew exactly what they were getting on the first one.

A claim is mineral rights, not land

You don't own the surface. You can work it, camp on it while you're working it, and keep everyone else off the minerals. But you can't build a cabin and retire there.

A lot of good ground has no water on it

Plenty of western claims are a mile of gravel and a dry wash. And that's not a dealbreaker, it just means you're drywashing or hauling water for a recirculating setup instead of running a sluice. So we'll tell you which one you're looking at.

The old timers usually got the easy gold

When we say a claim has history, that's the best proof there is that the gold is really there. It also means the old timers already worked what they could reach. What's left is the ground they couldn't get to with 1930s equipment, and a dry washer or a good recirculating setup will reach a lot of it today. That's where the opportunity sits.

There's a yearly fee and a hard deadline

Maintenance is due to the BLM every year by September 1, and there's no grace period on it. Keep it paid and you can hold the claim about as long as you like. We send reminders every season and we'll walk you through the filing for free.

Go look at it first

Every claim we list, you're welcome to drive out and sample it before you buy. Bring a pan, hit the high banks for the black sand layer, run a few buckets and see what you think. We'd rather you saw it with your own eyes than took our word for it.

Prospector's Tip

Read the Wash Before You Dig

Gold is roughly 19 times denser than the sand and gravel around it, so it drops out fast the moment moving water slows down. Before you commit to a hole, walk the wash and look for the low-energy spots: the inside of a bend, right behind a large boulder, in cracks and depressions on exposed bedrock, and anywhere you see a dark concentration of black sand (magnetite) — it settles out for the same reason gold does. Those are nature's own riffles. Test-pan a few shovelfuls from each likely spot before spending a whole day working just one.

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A rock hammer beside an exposed copper-stained vein on the Deep Dynamite lode claim in Clark County, Nevada

Prospectors at Heart

I'm Will. Mountain Man Mining is two of us, run out of Reno.

Neither of us came at this with a geology degree. I got into it about nine years ago the way most people do, which is badly. Bought a pan, watched too many videos, drove out to a creek somebody on a forum swore was good, and came home with a sunburn and nothing else. Took me a while to work out that finding gold isn't the hard part. Finding ground you're actually allowed to work is.

So we started staking claims, then selling the extras. That was 2018, and it's been going ever since.

We both still have day jobs, and we still prospect every season. That second part matters more than it sounds like it should. Somebody who only sells claims and never works one loses the ability to tell you which is which.

We do our own fire assays and sampling. And we run a pilot mill down in Gold Point, Nevada that'll handle about 20 tons a day, set up for gravity, heap leach, flotation and direct smelt. So when we tell you what's in a rock, it's usually because we put it through something.

Between us it's 30-odd years of pans, sluices, dry washers, county recorders' offices, and a lot of dirt roads that turned out worse than the map said.

The part I like best is the phone calls. Somebody who's never owned mineral rights before, asking how any of this works. I'll stay on the line as long as it takes, and I'll help you find the claim that fits what you actually want to do out there. That's the whole job as far as I'm concerned.

  • Fire assays & sampling in-house
  • Pilot mill at Gold Point, NV — 20 tons a day. Gravity, heap leach, flotation, direct smelt
  • Claims in Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, California, Oregon, Montana and Idaho
  • We answer the phone, and we like new prospectors

Will HalesMountain Man Mining · Reno, Nevada

Field notes · last time out · July 2026

A creek about an hour from the shop. Couple of flakes in the pan again. Nothing chunky yet, so the search continues.

Let's Talk Gold

Free consultations, no deposit. So ask us anything. Where the road is, whether there's water, what the old timers pulled out of it. Or whether the price is negotiable. Usually it is.

📍 Location: Reno, Nevada

📞 Phone: 775-583-8537

✉ Email: email.has.will@gmail.com

Hours: Monday–Friday, 8am–6pm PST. Weekends by appointment.

⚡ Fast Response: Most inquiries answered within a few hours.

📋 All Paperwork Included: BLM & county filing handled for every sale.

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