BLM "public mining claims"? Options

[CP]

In a recent thread on the CP club's facebook group page it was stated that the BLM holds "public mining claims"......
I don't think this to be true but I thought we could use more input from our very informative CP forum users to offer on the question.
So I thought we'd pose this question here......Has anyone heard of any "public mining claims" (actual claims/names or #'s) held directly by the BLM?
What are your thoughts on this at the CP forum folks?

I believe the person is simply misunderstanding/using the word "claim" with what should be "area" instead.

[swizz]

I don't believe that the BLM nor USFS "stakes" claims. They do not have a roster of mine workers that I know of. They each employ a limited number of "Mining Specialists". I don't believe that "mining for exploration or profit" or "holding of active mining claims" is a function of those management agencies. "Recreational designated areas" may have some exceptions in regard to "ownership", but not likely active mining claims by legal definition. Would they 'pay themselves' annual maint fees? That would be like the Fox watching the henhouse... in MANY ways. Can't be a legal function.
I understand where "some" of the confusion can come from.
Here is a picture of me the day I staked one of my claims. I am leaning on my Certificate Of Location/Location Notice in this image. This is an historic Placer Mine which I took over from the mine owner. Notice the large wooden sign next to me. I blurred out the historic mine name in this image for privacy reasons but it is printed on that sign. The SIGN belongs to the BLM and clearly has THEIR logo on it. One would immediately believe that THEY own this historic mine at first glance of the sign. They do not, and never did. They put up that sign because the State declared it as an "historic mine site" and it appears as such on topo maps too.... (with the old mine name).
The sign is property of the BLM, nothing else is. I cannot tamper with that "historic designation" sign, it is Federal property.
I can instruct the BLM to remove or relocate their sign if I choose to dig there or use that particular BLM sign location for mining purposes.
You can see how this could be easily misconstrued by a passer by with little or no mining law knowledge. First thought would be that the BLM owns XXXXXXXXXX Placer Mine judging by that sign alone.
They don't own squat up there.

Staked by ghostcreekmine, on Flickr