The Diggings™ provides data on the locations and status of mining claims on public land. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), along with a wide range claim types, grants individuals and companies Mining rights on public land. The Diggings™ is a source to see where these mining claims are and have been.
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…
We receive lots of emails from people who find their name or a relative’s name on our site and want to know if this means they have some right to the land listed under that name. The short answer is “probably not” but the complete answer deserves the time and attention that is best served…
We have added a new way to browse and explore claims: by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Administrative Area. To give context to this new feature, we wrote this handy explanation. Summary Nearly a quarter of a billion acres – about one-eighth of the landmass of the USA – is administered by the BLM. These…
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…
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…
While we aren’t inclined to devote too much time to any one part of Diggings when there is a world of tasks still ahead of us, branding was a space that we paused to contemplate. We are at a rather conflicting point where we revel in the rich history of mining while, conversly, pushing forward…
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)
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.
