The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is responsible for recording mining claims on federal lands. GeoCommunicator contains information on some of the unpatented active and closed mining claims located on federal lands including claimant name, approximate location, and other applicable information from the National Integrated Land System (NILS). Data is converted from Legacy Rehost 2000 (LR2000) Mining Claim Record System (www.blm.gov/lr2000) into NILS. Only a percent of the mining claims from LR2000 are in GeoCommunicator.
LR2000-Mining Claim Recordation System is a text-based case recordation system for recording information on unpatented mining claims in the U.S. excluding Alaska. Information about patented mining claims or any other federal land patents issued prior to 1982 can be found on the Federal Land Records Patent Site or LR2000.
There are some mineral patents through the mid-1990s on GeoCommunicator from NILS that are from the BLM's LR2000 - Status System for the "Cases that affect Land Status" (CTALS). To see these, click on the CTALS map layer in the map viewer. The LR2000 website provides land and mineral patent information that is not available through GeoCommunicator. |
Most of the information from the LR2000 system is available for viewing in GeoCommunicator. For the latest information on what is available, check the "What's New" section of this web site. Please read our disclaimer for more information. From GeoCommunicator, you can run a township geographic report that will allow you to get a report of all of the mining claims in the township. You can compare this to the display in GeoCommunicator to determine if there are valid claims in the area. For more information, see the Search FAQ's.
Information on Alaska records are not available from this site. For more information, go to the Alaska State Office website. The original documents including patents (some are available at the Federal Land Patent Records website), deeds, leases, public land orders, and case files are not available over this website but can be viewed in the BLM Information Access Centers.
The Federal Land Patent Records Website provides access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. They also provide image access to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Images of Serial patents (land titles issued between 1908 and the mid-1960's) are currently being added to the Land Patent Website.
For information on conversion and other layers, please read the Land and Minerals About page.
For access to all BLM case data use the LR2000 system.
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For more information on the National Integrated Land System (NILS), please visits our NILS Website.
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