Stake Your Claim: Alaska’s Most Expensive Listing Is an Actual Gold Mine

Get your pickax ready: Alaska’s most expensive listing definitely has the potential to strike gold.

In fact, the 1,418-acre offering is a gold mine.

“It’s a pretty unique opportunity in an amazing area,” says listing agent Yvan Corbin, with Real Broker Alaska.

The property is going for $23.5 million.

The listing within a national preserve includes 15 claims that are patented and 37 unpatented.

Corbin explains a patented claim means the owner owns the land. But the buyer doesn’t own the land in the unpatented claims (1,188 acres), but has the rights to extract.

Extracting could mean gold.

“It was mined, but hasn’t been mined in a very long time,” he says. There has been a “study on it and figured there is at least $60 million, give or take, of gold in there.”

Along with the high price tag, there are other challenges for gold seekers. For one, the area is hard to access. It is, after all, located in a place called “Remote.”

“It’s in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve off the Yukon River,” he says. It’s about a 75-minute flight from the Fairbanks area, the closest city. “Logistically, it’s not an easy place.”

The property includes a 2,500-foot-long gravel airstrip for the adventurous. But once you get there, where do you lodge?

Corbin says he plans to go see the locale in June, but doesn’t think there are any viable structures on the property.

“When the owner did mine it, there were a few cabins there, but I have no idea what the condition of those are,” he says. “But I’m sure they’re not great because no one has been there in years.”

Corbin says there are many possibilities for the property.

“Gold is such a unique mineral and gold fever is real, and I think someone that wants to buy this could hit the jackpot and find more than what is thought to be there,” he adds. The search for gold itself has the makings of a “ready-made TV show.”

Corbin can imagine the drama unfolding with cameras rolling.

“The logistics to set this up and use barges and helicopters to bring machines and everything in, it would be pretty amazing,” he says.

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