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newrecordconfirmed Utah: 7,325 claims entered BLM's system in 12 months; new lode claims cluster in Beaver, Millard and Washington
2026-09-29 · mine-004 · Bureau of Land Management

Querying both BLM layers for Utah serial numbers created on or after 29 September 2025 returned 7,139 open and 186 closed claims (7,325). Of the open ones 5,872 are lode, 1,260 placer and 7 mill sites; their dispositions are 'Filed' (7,089), 'Under Review' (27), 'Active' (12) and 'Draft' (11); all 186 closed ones are lode. Assigning each claim's mapped centroid to a county: lode claims are most numerous in Beaver (1,570), Millard (944), Washington (812), Tooele (670), Box Elder (590), Juab (419), Iron (250) and San Juan (196); Emery has 76 (all lode) and Carbon has none (its one new claim is a placer). 73 open claims have no mapped geometry. Emery's 76 are the BH (43, February 2026), BIG BODY (31, February-March 2026) and WF (2, March 2026) blocks; its 53 closed ones (GV 36 and WHEAL ANNE 16, filed October 2025, and FT 1, January 2026) were filed and closed within the year. The 38 labelled 'Draft' or 'Under Review' are in Garfield (11 Draft), Tooele (8), Iron, Piute, Utah and Wasatch counties, or not yet located (15); none is in Carbon or Emery. No new Utah claim carries a Valar-related name (mine-005).

In plain termsThis is a resident's list of new or pending ('proposed') lode claims: about 5,900 new lode claims statewide in a year, almost all labelled 'Filed' by BLM. Very few are in Carbon or Emery counties, and none is named for the company.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-run 2026-09-29 with the same 12-month window (from 2025-09-29): 7,139 open + 186 closed, product, disposition and county tallies reproduced (Box Elder 590 with full-resolution county outlines). BLM's definitions of 'Filed' vs 'Active' were not readable (mlrs.blm.gov help pages did not render for our tools).

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