How Do I Avoid Claim Jumping?, Seeking the best techniques for prospecting "open" land |
How Do I Avoid Claim Jumping?, Seeking the best techniques for prospecting "open" land |
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Diggin' In! ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 4-December 08 Member No.: 6,821 ![]() |
Hi everybody.
![]() HELP! What's the easiest and most accurate way to view or to plot active mining claims? My goal is to preview claims from a birds-eye-view on a map so that while I'm prospecting I will not trespass on mineral rights. Geocommunicator.com is not accurate, title master platts don't show un-patented claims and LR2000 provides serial numbers that when entered into Geocommunicator.com gives all coordinates (each corner of the claim) in "decimal" format (not degree, minutes and seconds). The area I'm prospecting shows a claim density of 50 - 100 claims and I KNOW there has to be an easier way to identify/view claim bounderies without me: 1) Converting decimal coordinated to degrees, minutes and seconds (for EACH corner of EACH claim). 2) Ploting those coordinates on a topographical map. In other words... What's the best technique for prospecting while at the same time avoid trespassing? THANKS! |
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![]() Master Mucker! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 ![]() |
Corner markers are required for all location claims and survey markers/monuments can not be removed once placed. In fact if someone moves a survey monument that isn't a certified surveyor working that ground, it's a felony to move one.
There is one sure fire way and the only way to know for sure where you are.........beat the bush and find the markers, they are out there or should be unless it was one of those paper filed location claims. If that's the case then the so called claim owner never visited the ground but only filed the papers. Not a claim owner since the discovery was never made. ![]() In the field these markers maybe survey markers from patented lands or surveyed location claims. And corner markers (claim owner erected) for location claims, although some get knocked down, rarely do the scoundrels scout out all corners. Location claim corners might be a stack of stones, a post (metal, wood, pvc), or a marked stone say on a large rock at the corner. With the proper research (alot of research) and documents in the field for refering to, one can find exactly where the "corners" are. ![]() ![]() I've trudged through the shrubs and rocks alot doing this very thing. ![]() CP -------------------- CP-Owner/Administrator
www.ColoradoProspector.com IF YOU USE IT, THE GROUND PRODUCED IT! MINERS MAKE "IT" HAPPEN!! ![]() |
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