Mining claim activity on Federal Land in the United States

Feb 11, 2014 (Last modified Jul 10, 2014)
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The Public Land spatial data sets (shapefile) contains Public Land Survey section polygons that had mining claims recorded in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's LR2000 database as of December 31, 2010 (from a March 1, 2011 data extraction) for the period from 1976 to 2010 in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Alaska was not updated in version 4.

See http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2007/290/ for more information, or to download data for individual states
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U.S. Geological Survey
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http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/claim-us
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Mining Claim Activity on Federal Land in the United States
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Series 290, Version 4.0
By J. Douglas Causey
2007, revised 2011
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U.S. Geological Survey
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nplcc, usgs, mining activity
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http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2007/290/ds-290_data_version4.zip

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