This placer claim is located on Cochetopa Creek which is about 30 minutes outside of Gunnison in the heart of some of Colorado’s wildest and most beautiful country.

As the largest company in the mining industry selling legitimate and valuable historic claims, you can rest assured that you are not only covered with our 100% lifetime money-back guarantee, but you can also rest easy that there is no fine print on any of our claim auctions telling you will have to deal with any games like being charged phony fees or having to pay inflated “processing” or “transfer” fees. The final auction price for this mine when the auction ends is ALL you will pay. Our in-house legal counsel and licensed real estate agent will complete all of the paperwork and documentation for recording and transferring FULL ownership of this mine into your name if you win the auction, AND we will overnight you everything in one to two business days of receipt of your payment in full (usually just one day!). So you can plan to visit (and start working) your claim the next day without the lengthy delay you will experience with other companies selling claims –and you will not have to pay any extra costs, fees or other poor excuses for extra profit that normally just go into a seller’s pocket. Cochetopa Creek offers many areas of public access along Highway 114 beginning at mile marker 12 and continuing 5 miles upstream through the narrow part of the canyon. Several picnic areas offer public access and parking along the Cochetopa. Above that watch for signs that read "State Stocked Water - Permission Required." Be sure to ask permission to fish these areas.

The greater portion of the district is capped with trachyte, and the whole is underlaid with metamorphic granite. The "colors" and free gold in the quartz that can be found upon the surface have in time past attractted many prospectors to examine the district. Gold, silver, and copper are all commodities that you can expect to find within this district.

The Cochetopa mining district lies south and southeast of the town if Gunnison from 8 to 12 iles distant. It runs northeast and southwest 12 miles, and is about 8 miles in width. and is generally known as the Cochetopa gold belt, from the fact that gold quartz predominates and ore is found over the whole district, carrying more or less free gold and in nearly all the dry gulches "colors" can be found. The whole district is comprised of rolling hills geberally covered with brush here and there with an altitude of about 8,000 feet. The climate is relatively dry, 12 -16 inches of percipiation a year.