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That’s a start. A little more thorough would be to do a county record search going back a three or four weeks and seeing if any new located claims are in the county recorder. Unless these are in the section you’re going to, they can be ignored. If they are in your section, time to plot on a map and stay out. Still, there’s a good amount of time a person can hold on to the claim without filing and still be valid, so you need to to perform “Due Diligence” once in looking for new claim markers. Searching 160 acres for a claim marker where corners are not required would take me hours. These corner markers could be hidden any sort of ways. Searching for corner makers there’s only a couple dozen or so combinations. ============ There’s also a bit of work prior to even doing claim status research. This takes about 3/4 of my time. 1) Land Management Status-Managed by Forest Service or BLM? OK; otherwise I move on. 2) Historical gold-This is done by finding mine names in the area through google research or USGS maps and finding what they produced. This is also the State Department of mining or USGS produce about the district. (There’s a bit more to this). 3) Open to prospecting-This is a bit more work. This involves making sure this is not located on anything that prevents prospecting like a “National Monument,” or looking in the PLATTS from the BLM website to see if the area has been withdrawn from prospecting. ==== Something I have gotten into lately is UV minerals. A few of my samples I picked up over the years turned out to have pretty interesting colors under shortwave or long wave UV. For now, I don’t get out as much as I’d like, but I may start to look at tailing piles and mine dumps more often. -
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