40-acre Federal Gold Mining Claim - Rainbow's End #8

The placer gold claim offered here is a 40-acre placer mining claim: Rainbow's End #8, AZ106781556. The claim is in Section 8, Township 7 North, Range 3 West. This claim is situated in NW 1/4 SW 1/4, SEC8 T7N R3W, Gila Salt River Base and Meridian, Arizona. It is approximately 5 miles East of Wickenburg by way the crow flies, 4.5 miles North of Morristown. This claim lies 2 miles Southwest of the Carson mine, and 3 miles Northeast of the Golden Dragon mine and 5 miles West of the Active Trilby Pit.

This claim lies directly on a main portion of the major lode trend that has supplied a large portion of the placer gold in the legendary San Domingo and Little San Domingo (also known as LSD) placer strikes. It is also near club claims where nuggets weighing up to 11 ounces have been found, and on the same alluvial flow where I have personally found nuggets up to 1/4 ounce. On one of Old Man Thompson's last trips out before he passed away (Easter of 1976), he showed me nuggets he obtained on an nearby claim with a metal detector (a now prehistoric Fisher) that weighed up to 7 ounces. A rich area indeed. This claim is 2 miles upstream of a patented 40 acres containing Brill Dam. Brill Dam has been there since the late 1800's, and was originally constructed to work placer gold in the San Domingo Placer Belt. This claim is also 3 miles North of two extremely rich 40 acre patented gold placer claims where old man Goode made his fortune. This claim also lies Southwest of five lode claims patented in the very early 1900's (1903 to 1909), and just South of the famous patented Monarch Mine. Many patented claims are merely base metal patents. These are gold lode patents.

There are 3 access routes to this claim.

The old 1880's Wickenburg to Phoenix Stage Line Road runs 1/4 west of this claim and the ruins of several of the old stage stops can still be seen along this route, along with numerous ruins of old miners cabins. The ruins of "Martian" Mary's cabin are nearby this claim in the San Domingo, and the ruins of the Hasting's house and placer workings are close to this claim. The old Monarch Mine ore wagon trail runs across the northeast corner of this claim.

Gold has doubled in price in the past year alone. At the rate it is soaring, we will soon be selling 20 acre claims for $25,000 and 40 acres for $50,000. Get yours now!

The Rainbow's End #8 mining claim has been tested, and it contains good gold along with other valuable minerals and gemstones.

Other gemstones, lapidary rough, and salable mineral specimens to be found on the claim include picture jasper (most mines sell good quality picture jasper rough for 10 to 20 dollars a pound), chalcedony, zoisite, corundum, calcium carbonate, fluorescent minerals, Epidote, beautiful pegmatite associated gemstones such as Moonstone and Red sunstone that I have sold online for over three dollars a carat (That's OVER SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS PER POUND, and there are HUNDREDS OF POUNDS ON THE claim!); Ametrine, Bright green Rainbow Jade, Smoky Quartz, Harlequin Quartz, Tangerine Quartz, Lepidolite, Fuchsite, Chlorargyrite (Silver), Mica; rare Pegmatite minerals such as Lithium and associated minerals ; Gold and Silver minerals in Quartz, Black Schorl Tourmaline, Tourmalated Quartz,and REAL GEM HEMATITE (not the man made "Hemalyke" that is generally sold as real Hematite. If your "Hematite" has a choncoidal fracture, then it is the manmade "Hemalyke", and not the far more rare natural Gem Hematite)! All a person would need to do to recover their purchase price on this claim is simply gather, cut, cab, and sell a few pounds of any one of the varieties of gemstone found on this claim. After that, THE GOLD IS GRAVY!! As a matter of fact, almost any gemstone or mineral found on several hundred acres of the world famous San Domingo placer belt can be found on this claim.

The coarsest most crystalline gold was formed in place in the claim trend from Epithermal, Hydrothermal, and Disseminated Lode, the preponderence being disseminated zenachrys and phenochrys in porphery quartzite and basalt with schist lenses, and quartz veins in the contacts. During relatively recent volcanic activity, this original geological deposition was ground up in a pyroclastic flow, and re-deposited as conglomerate, that goes to great depth, and is partially overlain by yavapai granite overthrust. Yavapai granite overthruest is itself a porphory lode deposit containing high grade quartz hydrothermal veins. Some of the gold was brought in by the Tub Spring, Willow Springs and Monarch tertiary channels.

This claim is slightly downstrike from where 26.75 ounce, 11 ounce, 7 ounce, and 3 ounce nuggets were found over the last few winters.

There are several good sized gullies on this claim in which the placer gold is replenished from alluvial pediments every year by winter and monsoon rains. There is a great amount of gravel on this claim that could be worked with quite some success with heavy equipment. The gold is also concentrated enough to be worked by hand and be worth your time.

You wont have your mining restricted to 3 months out of the year, as there are no endangered fish or other aquatic wildlife here. Although this claim is not located in lush forest, it also is not buried under 6 feet of snow 9 months out of the year, and closed to access due to fire danger the other three months, you don't have to bring your own oxygen, you wont have to grow webbed feet and gills, and therefore this would make a wonderful winter escape for the snow/rain/flood/humidity weary miner or outdoor enthusiast, or would-be sun worshiper. This claim contains some of the most beautiful and regal desert wildlife in the entire Southwest. I would say it is definitely "Arizona Highways" class scenery.

The Rainbow's End #8 claim is on the same strike as a claim group (Jubilation #1,2,and 3) we have held since 1974.

In the test results pictured here, I ran a total of 10 five-gallon buckets of wet material from the listed claim through a drywasher (this indicates substantial gold loss confirmed by panning the tailings). This was done on the east side of the claim near the veins at the top of a hill. A good amount of coarse untraveled crystalline gold, and possibly platinum bearing hematite, barite, scheelite (tungsten silicate), corundum, and bismuth was found. Recent analysis of placer concentrates from a nearby placer operation we were permitting indicate substantial amounts of the rare earth elements Cerium and Lanthunum (these REE'S are contained in Monozite, which concentrate well with gold), as well as Cobalt, Copper, Gallium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Niobium, Tantalum, Strontium, Vanadium, Tungsten, Yttrium, and Zinc. All of the gold in the picture below, came from JUST TEN BUCKETS OF DIRT!

You can see that the gold is crystalline and untraveled.

Virtually everyone this past year has come to us looking for better claims after spending a lot of money on other "claims." This leaves the question:

Who should you buy claims from?

If their name does not come up in claim records from AT LEAST 20 years ago, you might think twice. Trust an experienced miner. We have been selling claims since 2001, and mining for more than 50 years. Our family has been in the mining business for 5 generations!

That experience COUNTS when it comes to mining!

What price range should I look for in a mining claim?

My Uncle Hobart and my Grandfather Leland taught me that a good 20 acre claim was worth the price of a good used pickup, and that has been proven true to me over the last 50 years. So if you are paying ten thousand dollars or less per 20 acres, you might be getting a "clunker," if anything at all.

Again: Who should you buy claims from?

Certainly not a Dandy-come-lately. Here is physical evidence that I began training at a very young age with my Grandfather Leland Elmer Bigelow.

An impressive amount of gold found on a nearby claim during the new owners first 2 weeks on the claim.

The most spectacular, grand, and rare horticultural specimens on earth reside nearby. "Crested" Saguaro(pronounced suh-WAR-oh), the result of a genetic mutation which only occurs in 1 in 150,000 Saguaros. This mutation results in a "Crest" on the top of the cactus that looks like the comb on a rooster. Some of these specimens are far more impressive than others. In 40 years of desert exploration, I have cataloged 12 of these specimens, and this one is by far the largest and most spectacular of them all. Although this specimen is easily worth $150,000.00, it belongs to the Public, is protected by the Federal Government, and theft or damage of this specimen is a felony. Any potential "cactus rustlers" reading this listing should take note that all of the above mentioned specimens have been implanted with microchips, and can be tracked.

Extremely rare Crested Saguaros on nearby claims.

These are the Mandatory basic tools of the trade:

First picture, going from right to left: 1) A number two "muckstick". A good miner can wear out a few dozen of these over several years. If you think you want to be a miner, have somebody hand you one of these. Your hand should instinctively grasp it firmly, and the shovel should begin to "sing." Any hardened underground stiff knows what I'm talking about (I have handed some people a shovel and seen their hand spring open and the shovel fall to the ground. This means they were not cut out for physical labor). After you have had a few years on the end of a "muckstick," when you grab one, some song lyrics should automatically come to mind. "I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded 16 tons of number 9 coal And the straw boss said "well, a-bless my soul."" 2) A small pick good for detail work. Also good for defense against Mountain Lion attacks if you can't get your "Gat" out fast enough. 3) A full sized pick for roughing out material. 4) A long thin blade standard screwdriver for scratching gold out of cracks in the bedrock. 5 & 6) Loppers and pull saw (these are only needed if your mining rig is "Purty" and you wanna keep it that way. If you drive a "Arizona rig," then the only thing these are good for is clearing the brush around your work area.

This picture is of my standard "shop vac." As you can see, it is 6 horsepower, and pulls 14 amps. Like Bob Villa on "Home Improvement" says: "MORE POWER!" These work twice as well as a gas vac and are only around 100 bucks at Home Depot. Only buy the "Rigid" brand. The "Shop Vac" brand won't hold up to this use. When you get your Rigid, take the filter off and put it in a box. Only bring it with you if you plan on vacuuming your rig once a week or so.

This is the generator that I use to run the Rigid shop vac. They are available at Harbor Freight. They are very dependable and extremely quiet. Not to mention that they cost about 1000 bucks less than the name brand.

This medium sized drywasher I purchased from Travis at Pro Gold in Youngtown, Az.

This is the leaf blower motor that I use to run my drywasher. They are available for around 80 bucks at most hardware stores. I use an RV sewer line for air transfer.

Heavy guage extension cords are a must to run power from the generator to the vacuum. They also work well for discharging static buildup inside the vacuum.

Buckets....You can never have enough buckets.

Lush High Sonoran Desert Vegetation on the claim and in the area.

The Herbal Kingdom imitates the Insect Kingdom as a Sundrop delicately spreads its new wings. Oenothera Primiveris of the Onagracea family (Bottle Evening Primrose, also known as a "Sundrop") waste no time in taking advantage of a brief interlude in the 10 year drought.

A carpet of wildflowers covers the claim each spring and early summer.

Giant Saguaros guard the treasures on the claim. These stately sentinels have stood for many a century on this claim and in the area.

There are High-temperature strategic metals and minerals veins on this claim. Fluorescent mineral specimens from this claim can be sold and you would never run out. Fluorescent minerals sell for a lot of money and there are thousands of specimens on the claim.

The main channel of the East Fork of Tub Spring Wash runs through this claim.

Testing on the Rainbow's End #8.

Cassia flowers bloom on the claim and in the area.

Looking South at San Domingo Peak from the claim.

Low lying areas, washes, gullies and depressions have been concentrating gold on the claim for thousands of years.

Huge trees on the claim mean a shallow water table.

Fairy Dusters dance in the morning light.

This is a very old location monument and dig for the main gold, silver, and copper bearing hydrothermal quartz vein exiting the west side after traversing the entire width of the claim (1,325 feet, or 1/4 mile).

Metalliferous yavapai serecite schist on the claim.

The old Wickenburg to Phoenix stage road as it passes near the claim.

Looking Southwest toward Vulture Peak from the claim.

Metalliferous hydrothermal veins in chlorite epidot metamorphic schist breccia on the claim.

Old hand workings from prospectors of long ago.

A giant boulder slide in the main channel has been concentrating gold for hundreds of years. My uncle, Hobart Randall, moved a similar boulder slide with an D9 and 980, and recovered 485 ounces of gold.

Can you tell where this boulder came from?

Agatized boulder opal on the claim.

Disseminated lode in porphery quartzite indicates the claim could be an open pit lode mine if you ever ran out of placer.

Southwest corner and location of the Rainbow's End #8.

Northeast corner of the claim.

Southeast corner of the claim.

Looking south at San Domingo Peak from the claim.

The main vein on the claim. This claim traverses the entire claim.

An old dig on the main vein on the claim. This is an extraordinarily wide vein, bearing gold, silver, copper and many other precious and base metals and minerals. More importantly, it bears thousands of tons of museum quality and collector grade specimens and gemstones such as Ajoite and Shattuckite in crystalline Quartz. Similar material from Messina, South Africa, sells for over $100 per gram, and there are millions of grams of similar gemstones and specimens in the veins on this claim.

Single specimens of Ajoite and Shattuckite in Quartz are regularly sold for more than the asking price of this entire claim.

Ajoite and Shattuckite with Cuprite from the claim.

Ajoite, Shattuckite, and Cuprite in translucent white Quartz from the main vein where it meets the west border.

Ajoite and Shattuckite in Quartz from the main vein on the claim.

I sold the neighboring claim a decade or so ago and every year they come out and stay most of the winter, working for gold. This is their campsite.

Looking Northeast at Red Picacho and White Picacho from the claim.

Northwest corner of the claim.

The washes on this claim contain a massive amount of heavy black sand gold concentrates. The reason being that this claim sits on visible veins and structures that produced a lot of the gold in the region.

Stunning Sonoran Vistas can be seen from this claim.

Gold producing geological features and structures are numerous and easily spotted on this claim.

In the test results pictured here, I ran a total of 10 five-gallon buckets of wet material from the listed claim through a drywasher (this indicates substantial gold loss confirmed by panning the tailings). This was done on the east side of the claim near the veins at the top of a hill. A good amount of coarse untraveled crystalline gold, and possibly platinum bearing hematite, barite, scheelite (tungsten silicate), corundum, and bismuth was found. Recent analysis of placer concentrates from a nearby placer operation we were permitting indicate substantial amounts of the rare earth elements Cerium and Lanthunum (these REE'S are contained in Monozite, which concentrate well with gold), as well as Cobalt, Copper, Gallium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Niobium, Tantalum, Strontium, Vanadium, Tungsten, Yttrium, and Zinc. All of the gold in the picture below, came from JUST TEN BUCKETS OF DIRT!

You can see that the gold is crystalline and untraveled.

The Easter Bunny on a scouting trip to the Wickenburg area claims.

Shallow and Jagged bedrock on the claim makes for easy pickings for the prospector.

Some of the local denizens in the area.

I was 9 years old when I placed this corner post with my dad. My dad cut aircraft aluminum, drew in the letters and had me imprint them with a hammer and screwdriver. I asked him why, and he said "Because it will be there when I am gone, and it will be there when you are gone." He went over the Divide a long time ago, and I am over 60, so I guess he was right.

There actually is gold at the end of this rainbow.

Globe Mallow, one of the many useful herbs on the claim.

The Staghorn Cholla opens its blooms to the Spring morning sun.

A Phainopepla Nitens feasts on Desert Mistletoe berries in the spring.

Remnants of Hurricane "Paul" roll across the desert. These are the late summer storms that are hard on the roads, but replenish the gold in the low lying areas.

One of the many useful herbs in the Sonoran Desert, the Desert Hackberry produces in profusion.

Old well on nearby patented property. Cabin site was in the area at the upper right of the first picture. These pictures were taken before the winter rains. I just checked this well a little while back, and the water table is still visible.

There is a herd of Mule Deer that beds nearby during the day, and waters twice daily at a nearby Creek, along with the Quail, Dove, Cardinals, Sparrows, Thrushes, Hawks, Owls, Eagles, Rabbits, Raccoons, Badgers, Silver and Red Fox, Coyotes, Javalina, Bobcat, Burros, and the list goes on ad infinum.

More local residents, the old timer's ore haulers.

Summer Monsoons roll into the Bradshaws to replenish the desert.

A picture is worth a thousand words! Dawn of another glorious Arizona day!

The days begin and end in a blaze of glory in Arizona! Another famous Arizona sunset!

Brill Dam, constructed in the 1880's, built of giant dark purple rhyolite blocks quarried on site, has long been one of my "Secret Places" where I have cooled my heels and healed my soul since I was a child. This dam is on patented land, immediately above the confluence of Willow Spring Creek and the San Domingo, on the San Domingo. Very few people know of this pristine paradise since it is well hidden even from ariel view by huge cottonwood and willow trees.

Deep shafts and ore stockpiles can still be seen on an nearby claim, where they were abandoned at the beginning of World War 2.

The pictures shown of mill equipment are of an antique hard rock mill on our nearby claim. I believe this mill began duty as a processing point for lucrative hard rock gold ore from surrounding claims, and was subsequently converted to a niobium/tantalum mill when high grade columbite was discovered nearby in 1967. Tantalum currently sells for $50 per oz., and some varieties of the columbite crystals from which Tantalum is extracted sell for thousands of dollars each!!

Although this property contains gold, your prospecting options here will not be limited to those, for on the property, or within a short drive from this miner's paradise are to be found more geological treasures than I have time or space to list, but list a brief sampling I shall. There are gem grade spessartine and grossular garnet, extremely rare columbite (tantalite/niobium) crystals in pegmatite with muscovite and crystalline quartz, travertine, serpentine, malachite, azurite, brochantite, ajoite, shattuckite, barite, beryl, bornite, calcite, fluorite, fluorescent minerals of mind boggling variety and intensity, gem silica chrysocolla, turquoise, crocoite, wulfentie, vanadinite, cuprite, diopside, dioptase, dumortierite, epidote, halite, hematite, hemihedrite, linarite, peridot, almost any form of quartz conceivable (magnificent red, black, pink and yellow crystals, scepter amethyst, smokey quartz, rose quartz, saganite, chalcedony, fortification agate, fire agate, petrified wood, and just recently, I found some giant purple rhyolite geodes with spectacular citrine crystals inside!), rare earth, platinum, Apache tears, giant black schorl tourmaline crystals, monsterous beryl crystals, topaz, jasper, and the list goes on!

Black sands in the area are very heavy and metallic containing gold, magnetite, hematite, zircon, garnet, nickel, chromium, titanium, tungsten, tantalum, noibium, trace platinates, etc., etc., ad infinum.

A small sampling of gemstones we have mined in the area

(these are not from the claim and are not for sale).

A SMALL SAMPLING OF GOLD NUGGETS PANNED FROM THE SAN DOMINGO. (not for sale). Gold from this region is of the finest purity and character.

Flora and Fauna are unbelievably profuse in the area, with visitors ranging from the occasional mountain lion to the ever present and inquisitive Gambel's Quail.

This is a virtual open-air aviary with a plethora of peregrine and other falcon, many varieties of hawk, eagle and owl, scrub jays, the raucous blue jay, turkey vultures, crows, cardinal, finch, sparrow, robin, lark, wren, mourning dove, hummingbird, and the list goes on.

A Hawk guards the memorial to Rattlesnake Lil's son. He was killed in WWII and this memorial has stood since then with the locals help after Rattlesnake Lil died.

Giant Turkey Vulture guarding her young.

The Turkey Vulture takes powerful flight as I approach her nest.

The mammals on and around the property are regal in size due to the plenitude of forage and water in the area. Boone and Crocket class mule deer come to water at the seasonal creek, as well as javelina, cotton tail, jack rabbit, squirrel, raccoon, mountain lion, bobcat, silver fox, coyote, and the occasional lobo wolf.

In the evening the antics of the bats and nighthawks in pursuit of insects are quite comical.

The rising of the full moon over the Bradshaws, seen through the forest of saguaros (some of whom were seedlings when this country was young) in this area, would bring goose bumps to the skin of the most aristocratic world traveler, jaded by repeated viewing of the most awe inspiring vistas on earth.

In this area, in the spring and early summer, carpets of wild flowers and useful medicinal herbs in season are infinitely diverse in color and variety; a person could spend a lifetime learning the names and properties of them all.

Jojoba bushes are one of the most useful herbs here providing a yearly bountiful crop of Jojoba beans, from which the elixer of life is extracted, and used to produce many of the widely used health care products available today.

World class candies and jellies are made from the fruit of the Prickly Pear cactus, and the fruits, along with other cactus fruits, were a staple food for the Native Americans in the desert. The "meat" of the pad, if eaten raw, has been said to treat Diabetes in any form.

This area is a true entomologists fantasy, with several hundred varieties of butterfly alone; a walk alone in a flight of millions of monarchs is an awestruck communing with Original Intelligence.

The reptiles in the area are rather inquisitive. Reptile watching in this area is fabulous, with varieties ranging from smaller blue whiptail lizards and orange geckos up through larger horned lizards, collared lizards, spiny lizards, chuckwallas, desert iguanas (pictured below), all the way up to the rather large (to 24") Gila Monsters.

Speaking of Gila Monsters, I recently came across a very large one sunning himself on some rocks. It is hard to tell from the pictures, but this guy's (or girl's) head was about the size of my fist! If you come across one of these out in the wild, stay back and take a few pictures, but DON'T try to pick it up because it is poisonous and protected.

Recently, during my frequent wanderings in this area, I came across an extremely rare find! A large female Desert Tortoise! In 39 years of desert wandering, this is only the 4th and by far the largest I've ever seen. If you run across one of these quiet creatures, be very careful not to disturb it or any nest nearby, as they are very endangered. Take your pictures and leave it in peace.

Well, it seems the grizzled old prospector has been caught prattling on about nothing again, and must return to the description of the claim offered here. This is a 20 acre unpatented mining claim, and although there is a current moratorium on patenting claims, it comes up for review each year. There is a 40 acre placer claim nearby to the east on hard caliche with very little flora and fauna. It was patented in 1994, and its current estimated value is around $10,000,000.00! If you file your paperwork every year, you will be first in line to file patent on this claim if the moratorium is lifted. Unfortunately, you would be paying taxes on this property after that point in time.

I am in no way guaranteeing that this is the way it will work for you. I am merely stating that this is the way it has worked for countless other private citizens and developers who have built golf courses, shopping centers, and resort homes over the tops of still rich mines. Which brings up another subject. Upon payment in full of this claim, we will take care of the transfer of ownership papers and file them for you at no extra charge. We will also give you instructions on yearly paperwork filing. This claim is fully and legally staked, posted, and located, and the paperwork is up to date. This claim is close to the exclusive world famous old west town of Wickenburg, Arizona, which has a corporate jet compatible/ state of the art airport, and world class golf course. Although this claim is not too far from multi million dollar homes with private airstrips and in house hangars with acres of prize horse housing, private arenas, tennis courts, and so on, it is also at the end of the line, the jumping off point for civilization, for it is quite near the Hell's Gate and Castle Creek federal wilderness areas.

So you can see, whether you are a hermit philosopher (like me!) looking for solitude and commune with nature, a corporate jet-setter, or anything in between, this claim is on the perfect multi use land for you! If you are an off road A.T.V. enthusiast, there are thousands of miles of pristine marked and mapped trails that could not be explored in a lifetime with a freighter of fuel!

For the western horseman/person this is the fantasy of a lifetime, the views are spectacular, springs everywhere, and working ranches numerous. The hard core bass fishing/watersports enthusiast will be happy to know that there is world class bass tournament fishing with a well appointed resort marina 20 nautical miles to the east at the 14,000 surface acre Lake Pleasant on the Agua Fria River! This is also not a membership claim that has been picked over by thousands of other members, and you don't have to worry about somebody moving in on your "glory hole" in the afternoon when you quit for the day and cleaning out the 12 ounce pocket you left behind (this really happened on a membership claim!).

I am including pictures of the claim papers, and pictures of a map of the claim area. I am also including, in this listing, topo maps of the area to help you locate it in a general area. The red mark indicates the area of the claim. I have made it as accurate as I can without drafting software. :-).