BLM - LR2000 is unreliable; county clerks office is

[Desertphile]

BLM - LR2000 is unreliable; county clerk's office is

My associates and I had planned on filing a claim on 40 acres of desert at a site where the BLM's database shows all previous claims were abandoned and have been for 14 years. Yet the "boots on the ground" survey showed a valid location, with monument and notice and corner markers. The County Recorder's Clerk's office shows that the grantor of the mineral claim has filed the "small miner's waiver" forms, but the BLM's database shows the claims were abandoned and the status as "Closed." Looks like the grantor has filed papers with the county but not the BLM, or the BLM's database is over 1,014 days out of date.

Argh!

This is a problem because the county's database is not searchable by PLSS section: it is searchable by grantor's name, but since the BLM's database is not updated, it doesn't show valid grantor data. It means the LR2000 system is not as useful as it "should" be, since its records do not match county records.

I am disappointed.

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Having worked in municipal government to learn that the Federal Bureaucracy lacks efficiency and even the local level county or state records may be in disagreement . . .


Wait while I put on my truly surprised face.



OK. I'm over it.


Good luck swimming upstream in the red tape river.

 

[Desertphile]

LOL! Yes, I'm shocked.... SHOCKED!.... that the BLM's database is, like, over a thousand days out of date. This is the government, after all, and therefore hyper-efficient. It's, like, unprecedented! Heh! But seriously, my associate spent about US$300 to examine the site because two years ago we found an excellent amount of gold in a trial exploration. It appears that a mere SEVEN DAYS after we did our exploration, the previous holder of the claim re-claimed it. My health care provider told me I'm paranoid. Heh!

 

[John_Arizona]

Go find another spot

 

[Desertphile]

There is an area to the south about one kilometer that my associates and I will be testing. We are disappointed about the original site because it yielded enough gold to make the work worth doing.