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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Rock Bar! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 13-June 15 From: South of Gunnison in Gold Basin, Saguache County Member No.: 120,659 ![]() |
We hiked in to fairview lake and mountain last summer a few times and I camped there too. It's a thick forest up there and a good hike up. I found some gold up there at one of the confluences down from the lake but need to do more testing. There are also terminal moraines just down from the lake that need tested but my wife almost poked her eye out with a tree branch so I didn't really get time. The parallel gulches have the same moraines. There are a few faults up there that interest me and I'll be back up there this summer as well as other places in that area to look at. It takes so much time to do this work but it's my favorite part of it. There is probably a vein up there still.
Sheep mtn I believe is in fossil ridge wilderness but fairview is in the wilderness recreation area. Wilderness recreation isn't closed to claims but the wilderness area itself is. They can both be prospected for gold but limited opportunity to stake a claim. It's fine to dig and prospect either way. If you're ever interested in spending time up there I'd go with you. It's a big area but Ive learned some of it. There's an old cabin out there we found last summer in a gulch nearby. The tin cans we found there were all the old pre1887 style with the cap and seal solder work and the soldered side seam. I'd like to detect it sometime when I'm up there. I will be spending all my free time up there this summer. We saw 6 moose up there in one day. -------------------- Level 2 member -12/25/16
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