Buying a mine

[RockRacer]

How can one buy a mine, land with a mine, a ghost town, or just property in a ghost town?

[Derek]

Unless it is already a patented claim or private property you can't "buy" a mine anymore. Same goes with land in a ghost town or the ghost town itself. All that one can do these days is lease the mineral rights.

[rhartill]

The USFS UT has published this information on staking a mining claim in Utah... Not exactly the same as "buying" a mine, but not as severe or costly as leasing mineral rights either. A claim can be a good way to tie up land sufficient to disallow DOGM from backfilling all the shafts in UTAH.

https://fs.ogm.utah.gov/pub/MINES/Minerals_Related/MiningClaims/UtahMiningClaims.pdf

[rhartill]

Sorry, I misidentified the source of the .pdf file above. It is from non other than the DOGM itself!
-Russ

[RockRacer]

You guys are amazing! Thank you for the info. I am going to go through that PDF. I wonder if Mojave can start up a collection for "staking a mine claim" on something near bye that is worth saving and possible to save...

Maybe you could call it, I don't know, Mojave Underground Mine?

K, I will shut up and just read through this stuff before I post here again.

[RockRacer]

So I probably don't understand everything I am reading here but it doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal. I guess I am asking you guys why it is a big deal to "stake a claim"? I have to imagine it is otherwise that would be a good reason for Mojave to start up a donation collection.

$190/year and have a lode mining claim.

[Mark1955]

Russ, When are you going to hold a class on the proper aspects of staking/claiming a mine. I'm certainly game to start doing this... Perhas we can get Mike and Stuart to put something like this together to add the the growing list of available classes ???

[rhartill]

Excellent idea, and since I was busy doing claim research when this post hit my email, it must be fate/destiny... Stay tuned, we are working on getting such a class organized, and may even have some video soon...

[Mike]

Funny how Crystal and I headed up to the BLM office today. Unfortunately, we found out half way there that they close at 4:30. So we went and splurged at IKEA instead.

[RockRacer]

Funny how Crystal and I headed up to the BLM office today. Unfortunately, we found out half way there that they close at 4:30. So we went and splurged at IKEA instead.

Way to call ahead, Mike. LOL!

I am still very interested in learning more about this topic, so please keep us posted.

[rhartill]

A very rough cut of a lecture by the late Stephen Ryland (CalGold, History of Mining, Professional Geologist) in 1984 on staking a mining claim. We invite annotations and comments in order to UPDATE this video for 2009!

In three parts, to comply with YouTube's 10 minute limit per video...

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S7dB...08b11af698ccd9

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym9qG...df0fd073b96271

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4lnR...6b3db9f0fb5478

[Kiel]

Is that spam

[acidman1968]

Yeah...

[Dawn_CL]

I have 6 smaller mines claimed here in western AZ. They are all on a 640 acre parcel. Utah has a bit different rules on claiming there than AZ does so i cant really help you there unless you plan to hold claims here in AZ.
Either way, claiming is not that difficult of a procedure and it does, SOMEWHAT, keep BLM from destroying the mines out there.

Dawn

[ghostshot]

As soon as I'm back on my feet with a regular income,I'm in for donations!