Why are there no BLM active mining claim kml files for google earth?

[Gold_Striker]

Seems like much of the mining industry is stuck in the 18th century. It is not clear to me as a citizen of my state where to obtain active mining claim info.

I'm looking at idaho springs which is jam packed with mines.

 

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[goldenIrishman]

Hey G.S.

Don't know if you've been to the My Land Matters site yet Welcome to Land Matters but the information you're looking for will soon be included there.

If you give Clay and his team some time to get the mining claims map page for Colorado finished up and posted you'll have all the info all in one place. It's a lot of work for each state to get this info ready for the web and I don't know which order they have planned for posting each state. Not only will you be able to look up claims in any area of the state, but you'll also have a direct link to the LR2000 page with the BLM info for each claim. The plan is to eventually have claim maps for all states that allow mining claims to be filed.

Google Earth used to be my favorite site for checking out new areas until I found that there is a huge difference between what the GPS cords they give are and what the actual cords are. In some cases G.E. was off by over 300 feet. When you're dealing with claim boundaries, that's a lot!!!

Jeff

 

[KiddoTheMiner]

because nobody has taken the time to make one yet

 

[UncleMatt]

I actually have. I hired a GIS specialist to take current claim records and translate them to Google Earth kmz files. I have one now, but it is from a year ago. I am sure changes have occurred since then, so I will have him cook up another one.

However, ifgoldenirishman is correct, that will impact the accuracy of the map generated.

From my personal professional experience with Google Earth, I have done test with known legal property boundary corner markers, and found it spot on every time. I also found it to be within a few feet along all highways, which involves my day job. It usually gives GPS to six decimal places, which is accepted standard for survey GPS readings.

 

[winners58]

These are good but only go down to the sector
Gold Maps Online | Gold Claims

you can then go to geocomunacator, map click identify click on the location it brings up a window
click the PLSS tab/ click mining claims, you can read the TRS and what corner of the sector its in.
back to the map you can turn on PLSS you can turn on and see the surface management agency.
http://www.geocommunicator.gov/blmMap/Map.jsp?MAP=SiteMapper
sometimes messes up like late at nite or on sunday

 

[Clay Diggins]

These are good but only go down to the sector
Gold Maps Online | Gold Claims

you can then go to geocomunacator, map click identify click on the location it brings up a window
click the PLSS tab/ click mining claims, you can read the TRS and what corner of the sector its in.
back to the map you can turn on PLSS you can turn on and see the surface management agency.
http://www.geocommunicator.gov/blmMap/Map.jsp?MAP=SiteMapper
sometimes messes up like late at nite or on sunday

It's a lot easier than that now Winners58. Check out this post on TNet. You'll see a link to the Oregon Claims map.

You can go to the claims map and see surface management and get claims reports with just two clicks. We just updated the Oregon claims yesterday.

Heavy Pans

 

[jog]

I don't know if this helps but I use Mine Cache along with Earth Point Townships & Earth Point Topo Maps. Mine Cache is connected directly to the LR2000 & is updated once a year. Once I find a spot I'm interested in I contact BLM & have them send me copies of all the active claims legal discriptions for that spot then use those to find the areas not claimed. Here is an examlpe of Mine Cache for Idaho Springs Co.

 

[Gold_Striker]

soon as i saw the link i went to your site cus more infos never hurt anything

 

[Gold_Striker]

thank you very much that helps actually

 

[Gold_Striker]

I went there it says the local gov handles that info now or has decided to not give it to blm or something so can't get the info off there far as i can tell.

course could be user error on my part but thats what i understood