Last Post 04 Jan 2017 10:46 AM by  WALTER EASON
Here's one the claim jumper's didn't get away with!
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tom glenn
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08 Dec 2016 02:47 PM
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    08 Dec 2016 02:49 PM
    This is the claim rock thieve keep hitting but they did not get this one. Tom
    Ronald Peterson
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    08 Dec 2016 03:01 PM
    Don't get it ? What is the point ??????? Ron
    tom glenn
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    08 Dec 2016 03:14 PM

     

    claim jumpers came on my claim an took 12 of those rocks weighing about 8 tons but did not get the outcrop or others that weigh about 5 thousand lbs. ea. I got the blame from the government and had to do a 10 page report on why they took them. Tom

    William Hall
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    08 Dec 2016 03:16 PM
    Ron,

    Someone is stealing quartz boulders off his claim, then he gets the blame
    I guess they can bring a goodly amount of $$$
    Their gonna need some BIG equipment to get that one

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    08 Dec 2016 03:41 PM
    Tom-  if you have an unobtrusive spot you can put a trail cam that possibly get a shot of the vehicle and plate they are using.  Then the LEO's can have a field day.
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    09 Dec 2016 08:03 PM
    Is it illegal to take quartz boulders from BLM land which is not claimed?
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    10 Dec 2016 12:21 PM

     

    This is claimed by my wife and five of my grand sons, 120 acres, The White Spike and White Spike Creek. It is against the law to too even put one rock in your pocket off some ones federal mining claim but tell  the government that, they said it was a civil matter when they robbed this claim and another one in Plumas co. and we were on our own for prosecution. Tom

    Larry White
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    21 Dec 2016 07:19 AM

    Not sure even photo evidence would help. Amazing. The same thing happens when loggers steal trees. I had 7 black walnut trees stolen and the tops left in my field. I found out the loggers name, address, and took photos of the logs at the loggers sawmill. The sheriff, instead of looking into felony theft charges for stealing thousands of dollars from my property said it was a civil matter and then said I better not have gone on the loggers property to take the pictures and had better not go on their property at all or I could be charged wiith criminal trespass. ???????????? Anyway, sorry this happened on your claim.l

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    21 Dec 2016 02:49 PM
    In Colorado you cannot take more then 50lbs of rocks off of BLM claimed or not, and if it is your claim you are restricted to the river unless you have a patented claim. If I were you I would buy some field motion cameras and set three of them up so you can catch plate numbers. If I catch claim jumpers on my claim I am going to hold a rifle at them until the authorities arrive, and I might just blow holes in their equipment.
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    21 Dec 2016 03:18 PM
    I like that proactive solution
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    21 Dec 2016 07:28 PM
    i see no eqiupement tracks. did they tnt and just dig????????????
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    22 Dec 2016 08:02 AM

     

    They used either a backhoe or a skip loader with a 4 in 1 bucket and hauled the rocks up to the main road and every time the adjusted the rock they would leave a line of material where they set it down. Where the hole is  where we had a hot spot where we were digging around a big rock which they stole. I had other signs  up but the usfs took down because they were offensive in there eyes, a stop sign and a stick man crossing a street that I turned sideways and shot a hole through the heart and poured red paint on the hole to look like blood and then circled with white paint to look like a crime scene and put beware claim jumpers on the edges. have cameras now but still have problems because the new America does not know how to read or write. Tom

    Jonathan Stansberry
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    22 Dec 2016 09:18 PM
    i would like to see the after picture and the before picture. i only see one picture.?
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    23 Dec 2016 11:50 AM

     

    Believe it or not this is a placer claim and where the whole in front of the outcrop used to be where the stream ran, now it runs on the other side about fifty ft. down the hill. I have to guess that the original outcrop was three times as large as it is now from the huge rocks that have been rolled away from it. The last big fine was in the early sixty's when the famous Knox bros. reportedly found a quartz nugget laced with wire gold weighing 23 lbs. No one knows what happened to the nugget but knowing them they melted it down. Tom

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    24 Dec 2016 05:06 PM
    if it is 120 acers, it is more than a lease you acctualy owne the land? is that is wat you are saying? they tell me. do you own the property? is it a placer or lode mine? just wondering?
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    02 Jan 2017 08:33 PM
    Sorry these thieves are stealing your rocks! I would be digging under where those boulders were and looking for color! Good luck!
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    03 Jan 2017 06:56 AM
    Cameras! Cameras and more cameras.

    Thieves deserve Old Testament Justice.
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    03 Jan 2017 07:19 PM
    I would just wish all miners would just stop using [RECREATIONAL MINERS IN THEIR STATEMENTS .As it is killing the true miner.We are miners.
    Reach out to your Senators and Representatives and let them know you are in support of mining rights and opening up areas to recreational mining!
    WALTER EASON
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    04 Jan 2017 10:46 AM
    I could not agree with you more at least in reference to all work on federal un-patented mining claims. On federal land that is open to mineral entry recreational use would be classified as collecting with a few exceptions where a commercial miner is allowing you to work on their mining site and if a person is collecting the regulations for collecting are in a different area of law contained within CFR 43 and CFR 36.
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