BLM Launches Mining Claim Records Viewer

December 2004 by Staff

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has added some useful tools to their website. The Land and Mineral Use Records system has been meshed with a map viewer that allows users to obtain mining claim information in a useful format.

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