What do you do when you’ve located a promising deposit of gold or gemstones, but it’s trapped in solid rock?

I’d like to offer some practical comments about staking and maintaining mining claims. Owning your own claim is the dream of many prospectors. I’ve made good money off my mining claims, both from the minerals I have found on them as well as from leasing out some of my claims to larger mining and exploration companies.

One prime example is an area that I have talked about in many of my articles. This is a very large area and I will actually describe its location again.

The plea from State Police Chief Pete Kassetas follows what authorities believe is the latest death related to the effort to uncover Forrest Fenn’s treasure.