I have minecache and the diggings but both only give you approx. locations on the maps or overlapping maps and do not give you the geo reports on open ground that you have to figure out yourself anyway. It will give you the report on the claim you click on but not the parcel next door because you don't get the full legal description. It will tell you township, range, section, meridian and say sw quarter but there are eight claims in the sw quarter. Tom

I never tried using the LR2000 fully....but from what you are saying, there is additional info that will give the precise coordinates of the claims as well? And not that information is not accessible?

I found that now you have to go through the lr2000 public reports system when you used to be able to click on map viewer and enter location and click report and have all your info at hand and real big pain in the you no what but finally figured it out but still tells you the info might be incorrect, government. Tom

LR 2000 is a great tool although it only breaks the claim area down to the 1/4 section. This is the reporting system with the BLM and when a claim is recorded with BLM is where the Notice of Location information is discriminated to. The BLM use the same reports although they do have access to information that is not available to the public user. You can look up locations in a number of ways such as claim name if you are interested in a particular claim or if you are interested in a location look up by M/T/R/S and you will see all claim in that section. You also have choice of active, closed, void claims. Each claim also has a serial register page associated with it and that will tell you the location date, how the claim is maintained yearly as well as names on claim and acres of claim. One other thing is it will tell you if it is in more than one section.

Great tool once you get use to using it

So the State BLM office will have the most complete records in most cases?

Thanks

The biggest problem is with individuals who miss describe the location like using only NW quarter. there are north, south, east and west of the NW quarter. The proper way would be S 1/2 of the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4. Wont have to worry about  it much with over a foot of snow on the ground and still snowing through Thursday an then more on sat. and then a warm rain on Sunday, them sluice traps I have set should be catching gold with all the run off. Tom

we are a geographic oddity here, 300 miles from everywhere including the state office. Tom

We had one file on two forty acre claims above us this last year thinking they had just scored on the creek but in fact they had filed on the mountain top actually better ground than the creek so they forfeited them right after when they almost got mineralized. If you have claims keep them well marked no matter how many times they shoot them up and the tree huggers tear them down. Tom

The mapping is a different thing now so you have two parts, mapping and reports. I use alltrails national geographic for mapping but you have to have a usgs map to submit on a claim. Sometimes the info. from the county is not good because if they dropped the claim they wont go file with them. Mincache or the Diggings will give you broad area maps but not specific . you have to use the report to get the 1/4 section. blm does not give warranties on the info. A map compass and a map scale  is a must for finding location to get you in the right place but a visit to the site is always  the best for making sure. Tom

  Try asking Kevin, he makes those decisions.

Great info, thanks a bunch for the tip

I think it would be a great benefit to all the GPAA/LDMA members if the GPAA would get someone from the BLM office to come to the gold shows and do training on LR2000.  Even if it cost the GPAA a little, it would be well worth it. 

What do you say GPAA head shed????