Discovering a lost gold mining claim in the California desert – Going Alone
Discovering a lost gold mining claim in the California desert – Going Alone
I discovered this lost mining claim within a rock cairn atop an island of stone within the enormous flash flood plain called Siberia Wash. Imagine my surprise to look inside the rock pile and spot a metal tin secreted away within. Open this tin with me and find out what’s inside.
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There nothing fake about these mining claims paperwork. I live out in the Mojave desert and trust me there every where out in the California desert. I have found them out in Hinkley California and a place called Coolgardie California. You will find allot of them will be in a Prince Albert tobacco tins. I know this because I used to belong to gold clubs and we would look for gold in these areas with a metal detector or a gold drywasher.
What a joke ha ha ha
Ok let me see if I found something like this year are 1at thing I do is tell the world like he does whatever u be lieve hey by the way I’m selling my o!d mine on mars anyone i interested. Only a fool
The claim is yours now, I bet. And the land
Lmao in the desert for how long and no dust on it at all….some people.
Lode Claim. Sample that puppy for gold and file a new claim on the lode.
To all the dumb asses who think this is fake, I can assure you it’s not..! It’s what is required by the county where the claim is located.! Sometimes it’s in a tube or can nailed to a post or it’s in a pile of rocks or something that would be a marker on one corner of the claim, in other words don’t start doing any mining on that claim or you mite get shot or have a problem if the claim owner shows up and catches you mining on his claim..! It’s proper etiquette to look at it then put it back right where you found it… I was amazed by it too when I first got into gold mining 40 years ago..!
BLM mine marker required to establish mine boundries
This is a google earth kml file that will show you exactly where this mine is.
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I have already watched this
Fake condition of paper way to good
exciting to find, the tracks on the hillside indicate that there was some long term activity there,
Now me being a quasi miner and treasure hunter I would have not put down my pack, but have beat feet up the trail. Two reasons, the claim may still have value and to just look at the workings. Those old timers really did some ingenious things with how they worked the site. I like looking at old mining sites, you will learn a lot about who and how things were done.
They did it with a sharpie ok
Claim corners are to have the corners containing the information in that tin…
That was there sense the 1940’s. Just imagine. Super cool find. Placed there by a man who for one reason or another never went back to it. It was sitting there for almost 80 years as weather pounded it, and finally you found it. Someone probably bought it before the war, and then died overseas. Or who knows who put it there? The story that would tell if it could speak.
I looked it up, not listed you would need a surveyor to find it with those old coordinates unless you can find the monument mentioned. There is a claim on Siberia clay deposit.
SHUT DOWN CLAIM >>>> In WWII our government banned all Gold mining and other rare Earth miniral mining for the ware effort…. Thousands of mines and placer claims were abandoned…Many were started right back up a decade or so later. once gold priced made it worth the effort to mine it………That claim could very well be still viable and valid if the dues are still being paid up, You never know until You check 1st before You assume its a dead long abandoned claim…..Just because its jot being actively worked does not mean it is not still someones paid up & valid claim.
Blythe, CA in the house lol
I would like to go visit there someday could you give me the location or the GPS? Thanks great video
SO FUCKING FAKE !
JUST LIKE YOUR SOUL !
PUNK BITCH !
Until recently i had a Goldmine in Alaska that was left to me by my great-uncle he logged the claim in the late 1890s i have never been to see where its located…. but according to the local mining and land agencies its still a viable proposition to mine her…. don’t quote me but the name of the mine is i believe the DOUBLE D …. OK from the days of the Klondike Gold Rush
I would of kept that box
Bullshit
hmm
No way that paper has been in that tin in the weather since 1940
I think this was staged.
A metal tin that has been rusted shut miraculously opens , FRAUD !
A lot of people must have been on Google Earth looking up 1305 E Delmonica Ave. Google totally blurred the house out.
Google Trinidad mine… It is NOT fake!
I call your amazing amazement bull crap
Fake ass shit
that’s Mar 1st, 1940, post for mining claims
you should never go alone man. never. had a friend do that and sprain his ankle. he got lucky and dirt bikers found him crawling to truck.
Yeah, I find mining claims all over the place too.
Chester Copperpot
10:05 Looking up the address in Google Map reveals that the house has been blurred. Mystery thickens. 1305 Delmonica Ave E, San Bernadino, CA
Odd how the tin is from the seventies and the claim the forties.
Not fake at all. I see lots of them in the desert. GPAA has tons claims out there and the new claims they put the papers inside PVC tubes.
I once found a claim deed in the middle of three sets of piled rocks painted white. It was off garlock rd in the high desert in California. Returned to the BLM.
Hella staged!!! Lol
Siberia Wash
Category:
California physical, cultural and historic features
Feature Type:
Physical
Class:
Stream
County:
San Bernardino County
Latitude:
34.610547
Longitude:
-115.958059
GNIS ID:
1667108
My dad had a claim in Oregon we had to set boundaries so many feet apart at so many feet we put our papers nailed to a tree count another so many feet put another marker ours was in plastic nailed to a tree. If I remember we had to show we were working the claim bring samples to the claim office in order to keep the claim
DUMMIES WHO THINK ITS FAKE>……You are all obviously NOT from the USA western desert placer mining area ! ! ! …… Google is Your friend ! ! ! These old placers claim rock cairns, marking posts, sealed bottles and claim papers in sealed cans are everywhere out here…… You in-breeders all need to go get girlfriends & wives who are NOT Your sisters *sigh
This is how mining claims are set.
It is illegal to remove the post from its location. But it’s ok to look at it.
You can check the claim where ever it was filed. If it is unclaimed and obtainable, then it maybe open for sale. 🙂
It’s the way claims were set in California deserts
don’t read anymore please it’s painful.
the thing and the other….what the heck…..LOL
I only watched 2 min of this stumped shit you are a piss poor actor,it is so obvious you did the digging , it’s so fresh looking, I have pieces of tin out side in my junk pile that rust away in six months,oh yea you should have at least put some dust n dirt on it,what a joke you are
Looks like someone found some land that looked good, claimed it for prospecting and then got sent to war in Europe in world war 2 and never made it home, then the claim went un touched and forgotten..
My grandparents had a couple of mines so I was curious. People wanted to find gold with the quartz. One was in San Bernardino county. One was in Nevada. I’ve heard of that guy, Paul Grider. I think he was a bigwig in Las Vegas in a newspaper article I saw.
the top hole looks like the air shaft, the lower hole the main entrance, the angle of the pole on top indicates the angle of the shaft. looks like they were using the rain to help channel the outtings. Id run a sluce on the bottom, of the tailings run, with a fine mesh screen.
I hope his ghost haunts you until you find the gold..