Field Editor (and mining partner & neighbor) Ron Anderson (our gold property presenter, having been in the business since 1958) is listing a Alaskan combination bed and breakfast / fishing resort that also happens to be a “real gold mine,” for sale at a price far below the “Loss Vegas” investment houses that are a glut on the market. Having staked claims myself on the next creek over during the last run-up of gold values in the late 1970’s, I was surprised that Dan and Cindy Plano on Anvil Creek were asking so little in deflated USD’s for an already operating property, with solid money in the bank that is increasing in value every price manipulation on the LME. As many of the claims were staked under favorable State of Alaska management rules, I don’t expect this offer to last very long. Our hope is we will have permission to stick a “SOLD,” sign on the listing —for at least a couple of months— as it is hard to pretend we offer a viable way to sell a small gold property in competition with a number of sites that will list just about anything, for free, if we can’t advertise our actual past successes of bringing opportunity to readers who trust our judgment.

Seventy-two year-old Ron has been a gold prospector since 1958.

Bashful Ron, who also was an Anchorage real estate salesmen at one time  (plus bush school teacher, “white-knuckled” bush pilot, etc.) feels a need to mention that the “location-location-location” of small, traditional operating unpatented gold claims, recognized by courts as real property provided annual assessment work and rental fees (think of them as property taxes) are met every year by the first day of September, is dictated by where gold can actually be found that have an assay return.

Roberta also recently posted what she is describing as a, “valid, viable, small scale mining opportunity for a family operation; a couple of friends; an investment club that has taken a beating on resource stocks recommended by brokers who really don’t have a clue what they are talking about.” She, I, and Ron, and a few other handshake partners are listing a ready-to-mine industrial mineral building material deposit, complete with an already online virtual store to market wire sawn slabs an inch thick, worth at least $53 per square foot!

The awkward part here is that on Western Miner, I am the industrial and base mineral presenter. As explained in an article on www.Dimensional-Stone.net, we actually staked this property on a “snowbird” vacation — a “busman’s holiday,” to Eastern Nevada — to return a rightful association to a larger “skyscraper” grade marble property 100 miles away that I had worked on in the late 1960’s.

Out of my 40-years experience in Nevada marble, I had been paid as a consultant to help close on the parent property for a family corporation — that apparently was not interested in “household” patterns and colors. I also thought a DVD virtual tour of a computerized WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) would have had a modicum of respect from their geologist. This is why some office day-dreamer, making it through a boring afternoon indoors looking for an escape to “if only,” via the Internet, is being offered a “rock solid,” almost turnkey, bootstrap, shot at wealth.  I am speaking for all the Marble Canyon/WesternMiner editors, who suggest that we at least should have a “due diligence” validity over that of a boiler voice on the phone, or a sub-prime mortgage closer.  

This property package includes an online, buy direct, www.Marble-Boutique.com virtual store, ready for an honest submission to search engines (going around established wholesalers advertising, or Chinese quarries selling direct by spam-mail) to set the ladies up to have some fun being in a “decorating business.” This package is perfect for a couple of regular-guys who understand how to turn on a tracked vehicle, and saw, that possibly have equity to trade in overpriced investment housing. Ron and I as “old Alaskan prospectors,” oft-times do not fit into fancy financier offices in Loss Vegas. But, we would get a kick out of now-and-then showing up to help a generation of kids who didn’t come out of the Great Depression, and World War II, how to do-it-yourself prosper during “lean times,” in the beautiful, and bountiful, State of Nevada.