New Mining Claim Patent Issued Options

[Clay Diggins]

Congratulations to our fellow miners in Oregon!

The patent for the Garden Spot placer mining claim was finally issued.

Some hard working miners now have their own 50 acres of private land in the Siskyou National Forest and BLM managed lands.

The final cert was awarded in 1990 so it only took the BLM 25 years to get that stamp to the ink pad, stamp and sign the Patent and mail it out. Our fine employees at work!

ORMC86146 is now closed and private patented mineral property. The beauty is the proud "new" owners live on Galice Creek.

Read and Rejoice!

[Crusty]

Biggest reason I've heard they established the moratorium is it basically turned in to a way for non-miners to secure prime real estate in places you can't buy it. Make a "discovery"; patent the claim, and then build a sweet cabin on prime formerly public land, and never "mine" again. Look how many non-patented claims aren't actively mined now or are used for club claims or for profit ventures, which is also in violation of the law. Enforcement is virtually non-existent, so folks took advantage of the opportunity to secure real property.