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Warning for Mining Claim Owners | TreasureNet. com If you own a mining claim in the lower 48 you may need to check the current status of your claim with the BLM On November 17th the BLM closed 28,340 mining claims On this same day last year they closed more than 20,000 mining claims Many of the mining claims closed last year were closed in
Mining Claim Fees Going Up Again | TreasureNet. com A single 160 acre placer claim now has $1600 in fees due annually! Until 1993 the same placer claim was only $15 Location fees are going up as well The base location fee is now $49 plus the $25 filing fee A single mining claim location now requires a mandatory $274 fee payment to BLM (no small miner waiver in the first year of a mining claim)
MINERAL SURVEY PROCEDURES GUIDE | TreasureNet. com BLM District and or Area Offices and other surface management agency offices must be kept aware of the case processing schedule, so they can schedule their work for the mineral examination and mineral report L Leasable Mineral Report
BLM Form 3830-2 (Maintenance Fee Payment Waiver Certification) The only "form" provided by the BLM that is required to be used by miners is the 3830-2 All other forms are just suggestions My personal suggestion is to never use a BLM form except the required 3830-2 As winners pointed out many (most) of them don't even meet the legal requirementrs If you sent in an expired 3830-2 form you still have time to submit the correct current April 2023 form
Mining Claim Fee Maps | TreasureNet. com In 1993 Congress, at the request of the BLM, enabled claim owners to pay an annual fee of $100 instead of completing their annual claim development work This brought in funds to the BLM to administer the program as well as relieving them of their responsibility to check existing mining claims for evidence of development work
BLM Notice guidance? | TreasureNet. com The BLM tends to be interested in access issues and what vehicles will be on site Keep your access routes as short and non disturbing as possible Avoid using words that don't apply to notice level operations You aren't "mining"! Exploration or prospecting permits are for lease and sale minerals - not for locatable minerals
Can you take over a closed placer mine? | TreasureNet. com BLM and County don't communicate Someone at the Sacramento State BLM office told you that? Care to share a name? The Recorder will record any properly formed notice if you have the money Did you leave a 2" white space at the top? 10 point or bigger type? 1 2 inch side and bottom margin? Signed with return address? Proper Title to the Location?
Quit Claims and the BLM. | TreasureNet. com The BLM as we know will accept a COL without checking to see if it over-claims another claim However does this apply to Quit Claims? If a person tries to file a Quit Claim on a claim they don’t own will this flag with the BLM and be rejected? There’s a situation occurring on the claim next
When do I submit a NOI or POO to the USFS or BLM? (1) BLM receives documentation that a transferee accepts responsibility for the transferor's previously accrued obligations, and (2) BLM accepts an adequate replacement financial guarantee adequate to cover such previously accrued obligations and the transferee's new obligations Only the entity or his lessees are a subject of the POO contract
Placer Claim Etiquette Asking for Permission - TreasureNet The BLM doesn't manage any portion of the lower Merced river Kinda makes you wonder if the BLM just wants to misdirect prospectors with bad information or they aren't very good at understanding what land they manage?