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Ask the Experts—Looking up mining claims on the Internet
December 2011 by Chris Ralph
Q: Is there an Internet source ... that one can access to review which claims and at which location are the claims that BLM administrators close each year?Ask the Experts
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Q: The nearest access to the claim is a half mile walk, which is tough for a lode claim.
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Some fellow in Texas was selling a Spanish needle—a dousing device used to recover minerals in the old days. Do you know anything about these?
Ask The Experts—Is it possible for a mountain range to have good lode gold deposits and yet the area streams not carrying like deposits of gold?
Q: Is it possible for a mountain range to have good lode gold deposits and yet the area streams not carrying like deposits of gold? Or do the two go hand-in-hand?
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