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newrecordconfirmed How to see who holds a claim: BLM's MLRS reports and case pages by serial number (by hand; our tools cannot read them)
undated · mine-031 · Bureau of Land Management, MLRS

BLM's MLRS page says both old and new serial numbers are searchable and points to its public reports at reports.blm.gov/reports/MLRS. That index lists 'Mining Claims - Customer Info Report', 'Mining Claims - Serial Number Index', 'Mining Claims - Claim Name/Number Index', 'Mining Claims - Geographic Report' and a 'Public Mining Claims Serial Register Page', and notes the public versions carry Privacy Act redactions (unredacted access needs a Login.gov account). The reports themselves (under reports.blm.gov/report/) are disallowed to all robots by BLM's robots.txt, and the MLRS public room (mlrs.blm.gov/s/) is disallowed too and renders only by script, so we did not read them. By hand, a resident can search mlrs.blm.gov by a serial number such as UT106782094, or run the Serial Register Page or Customer Info report at reports.blm.gov with it. Other routes: the Carbon County Recorder, where location notices must be recorded (mine-026), and the notice on the claim post itself.

In plain termsWho owns a claim is public, but BLM keeps it in its reports and case pages, not on the map, and bars automated readers from those pages. A person can look it up in a browser in a few minutes with the claim's serial number.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-read 2026-09-29: BLM's MLRS page says both serial numbers are searchable and links reports.blm.gov/reports/mlrs; the reports index lists the mining-claim reports (incl. 'Public Mining Claims Serial Register Page (SRP) - Multi - List') and the Privacy Act/Login.gov note; quote exact.

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