Fun Claim Facts

[Clay Diggins]

We're doing a round of FootPrints claims updates and Ruby came up with some current figures I thought you might find interesting:

There are 44,416 active mining claims in Arizona as of September 30, 2014.

38,846 of them are Lode, Millsite or Tunnel site claims (87.5 %).

5,570 are placer claims. (12.5 %)

9,739 Arizona claims are more than 20 years old (30 %)

133 Arizona claims are more than 100 years old - 8 of those are Placer claims.

The oldest active claim in Arizona is 134 years old.


Just a little Sunday number trivia for your entertainment. If you enjoyed this maybe we can do this for all the mining states?

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[fowledup]

Would be some very interesting statistics indeed, especially for those states with dredging issues.

 

[timberjack]

Might be interesting to compare the number of claims today in a given state to 10 or 20 years ago. Interesting stuff, thanks.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Check out the Historical Claims map at Land Matters timberjack. It has mining claims graphed by square mile for every year since 1976. You can see the number of Lode and Placer claims for all those years for any give area open to location.

Heavy Pans

 

[fowledup]

Wonderful website, great stuff! I'm viewing it using a kindle fire. Is this what i should be seeing -shaded coloring in the sections, no numbers, I do not see what the levels of shading represent numbers wise. Thanks again your computer illiterate friend-fowledup

 

[goldenIrishman]

It's always good to have all the info you can get for the area you're working in! Knowledge is power and even more so when you're playing hide and seek with Mother Nature. Knowing where gold has been found in the past and thinking outside the box can lead you to a great find.

 

[jog]

One thing I think would be intersting to know is out of all the claims in each state how much money is spent on mining claims in each county & where does that money go. I do know one thing, I'm not smart enough to figure it out. Who know's maybe it's allready been done?

 

[Clay Diggins]

Wonderful website, great stuff! I'm viewing it using a kindle fire. Is this what i should be seeing -shaded coloring in the sections, no numbers, I do not see what the levels of shading represent numbers wise. Thanks again your computer illiterate friend-fowledup

Click on the tool on the right of the map and then click on the part of the map you want information on. A new window will pop up and a link will be displayed in the Historic Claims Layer portion. Click on that link and then go ohhhhh.... that's cool!

Heavy pans

 

[Clay Diggins]

Nevada Mining Claim Facts

Nevada is called the mining State for a reason.

There are 194,932 active mining claims in Nevada as of November 2, 2014.

182,827 are Lode claims (93.7% %).

8,655 are placer claims. (4.4 %)

3,428 of them are Millsite claims (1.7 %).

22 of them are Tunnel site claims (0.2 %).

53,160 Nevada lode claims are more than 20 years old (29 % of lode claims)

1,990 Nevada placer claims are more than 20 years old (23 % of placer claims)

291 Nevada claims are more than 100 years old - 13 of those are Placer claims.

The oldest active lode claim in Nevada is 134 years old - Overland 1875.

The oldest active placer claim in Nevada is 104 years old - Cabin 1910.

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