Prospecting & Detecting
How to Research Prospecting Locations and Mining Claims
April 2020 by David Hughes
If you are interested in researching mining claims for any purpose, you will first have to decipher the BLM’s LR2000, a Rube Goldberg database seemingly designed by a 1980s Soviet-era computer hacker.
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…the “One More Time” has turned into three more trips and each of the three has yielded more gold each time down.
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