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Fact mine-005

newrecordconfirmed No mining claim anywhere in BLM's public layers is named Valar, Numenor, Windlord or Ward 250
2026-09-29 · mine-005 · Bureau of Land Management, Valar Atomics

Name searches of both claim layers nationwide (open claims, and claims closed within the last year) for VALAR, VALARIN, NUMENOR, WINDLORD, WARD 250, WARD ZERO, WARD ONE, WARD 1 and WARD250 returned only unrelated names: VALARIE QUEEN (Nevada) and WARD 1 (Nevada), both old claims carried into BLM's new system in January 2021; Ward 1 (Montana, filed 16 September 2026); GOLDEN REWARD 1 (Washington); Sweet Reward 1 (Idaho); and a closed WESTWARD 1 (Colorado). In Utah the only claim name containing WARD is EDWARD PEARL (an old claim carried over in 2021). BLM's public 3809 notice, plan-of-operations and lease/permit/easement layers show no case with Valar as customer anywhere; the only Valar records are three rights-of-way applications (mine-006).

In plain termsIf the company or its people had staked claims under an obvious name, it would show here, and nothing does. That is not proof they hold no claims: a claim can carry any name, and the public map does not show who owns a claim. What BLM's public layers do show under Valar's name is three land-use applications, and no mining notices, mining plans or claims.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-run 2026-09-29: same 6 hits (5 open, 1 closed) plus EDWARD PEARL in Utah; dates corrected: VALARIE QUEEN, WARD 1 (NV) and EDWARD PEARL carry legacy serials, so '2021' is BLM's system-migration date, not a staking date. Plain field no longer implies the name search proves how Valar got land.

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