Claims For Sale, Claims Options

[Sunny1]

Hi! New to the club & love collecting rocks, gems, fossils, petrified wood-anything else shiny. Just curious how legitimate the "Claims" for sale on E-Bay etc are and if anyone has any history or experience they would like to share. Not local so the possibility of actually finding my own is slim to none.

[Crusty]

While I'm sure there's a couple good ones that pop up, 99% of the claims listed for sale are "paper claims", with the only thing getting mined is the poor fools who buy them sight unseen.

So much open, unclaimed land to prospect out there. Most never find ground worth claiming, why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? And if you ever find ground worth protecting, then file a claim!