Understanding Maps

The time has come for a over of our mapping services to clear the way for further development of handy tools for our users. As such, this month we have rolled out a new map format to better allow our users to quickly peruse mining claims by disposition. In order to keep the maps as…

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Understanding Townships

This entry focuses on a part of our earlier discussion, Understanding Location Data. For greater context on what we will be addressing, please read that post first. One of the more confusing aspects of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the concept of “townships.” A “township” can refer to two different things. Both are part of…

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Where is Alaska?

It seems like traffic is up on The Diggings and so it is likely that more and more people may be noting a glaring omission: Where is Alaska? As one of the major hotbeds for mining activity, surely, there must be masses upon masses of mining claims to be found. The short answer is: there…

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Well, We have a blog up

Building a site doesn’t happen over night. But while we are slaving away behind our computers, we thought we would pop out heads up once and a while to give updates here. Mining is, after all, a hard kind of labor. ( Though the song is just called Mining is a hard kind of label)

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Welcome!

We are excited to be ramping up Diggings.  While we are still in the development stages of the site itself, we thought we would start sharing our research as we accumulate it.

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