Mineral County, NV Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Mineral County, NV — built for the field.
Mineral County, NV Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Mineral County, NV — built for the field.
Mineral County sits along Nevada’s western border against California, framed by the rugged Wassuk Range, Walker Lake, and the arid basins of the Mojave-Great Basin transition. Appropriately named for its dense mineral wealth, the region encompasses historic silver-gold bonanzas around Candelaria, Rawhide, and Aurora. Public lands managed primarily by the BLM Stillwater Field Office (Carson City District) and the Bridgeport Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest offer accessible ground for modern prospectors, metal detectorists, and lapidary collectors.
Geologically, Mineral County is anchored by structural faulting along the Walker Lane tectonic zone, Mesozoic volcanic arc rocks, and Tertiary epithermal intrusions. Hydrothermal fluids injected rich silver-bearing galena veins, high-grade gold quartz lodes, and secondary copper ores into volcanic host rocks. Arid weathering weathered these hard-rock lodes into dry placer gravels across desert washes in the Excelsior and Gillis mountains. For rockhounds, public domain terrain across Mineral County yields exceptional lapidary materials, including Nevada turquoise, agate, chalcedony, jasper, obsidian, and petrified wood.
Navigating Mineral County prospecting requires careful spatial boundary tracking. Active lode and placer claims closely line proven mineralized gulches, intermingling with private patented mines, state land, and military reservations like the Hawthorne Army Depot. Utilizing an active Mineral County mining claims map enables dry-washers, detectorists, and rockhounds to check live federal BLM records, verify open public domain land, and plan backcountry desert trips with total accuracy.
17,180
Current / Not-Closed Mineral County, NV Claim Records
66,244
Historical Mineral County, NV Claims
967
Mineral County, NV Rockhound Hotspots
84,391
Total Mineral County, NV Claims & Hotspots
929
Metallic Sites
38
Non-Metallic Sites
Notable finds: Gemstone · Semiprecious gemstone · Kyanite · Quartz
Source records sometimes use broad or overlapping commodity labels; counts above preserve the underlying record classifications.
| Material | Sites Recorded |
|---|---|
| Gemstone | 15 |
| Gemstone, Semiprecious | 13 |
| Kyanite | 6 |
| Quartz | 4 |
16,216
Lode Claims
512
Placer Claims
| Claim Type | Current Claims |
|---|---|
| Lode Claims | 16,216 (96.9%) |
| Placer Claims | 512 (3.1%) |
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Official Prospecting Resources for Mineral County, NV
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Staked Maps isn't crowd-sourced guesswork. Current and historical claim boundaries are parsed directly from the Bureau of Land Management's Mineral & Land Records System (MLRS), which replaced the legacy LR2000 mining claim system in 2021, and kept in sync with our database on a regular schedule. Rockhound Hotspots draw from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), cross-referenced by material so you can see exactly what's been found at a given site. For legal filings, always confirm current status directly with your BLM state office of record; Staked Maps is a research and navigation tool, not a substitute for the official record.
Directly from the Bureau of Land Management's official MLRS (Mineral & Land Records System) case-recordation records, synced into our database on a regular schedule — not scraped or crowd-sourced.
Staked Maps displays the status reported by BLM. Records with a case disposition of Active are labeled Active; historical records come from BLM's closed-claims dataset. These statuses are research information, not a Staked Maps legal determination of claim validity, discovery, ownership or compliance. Verify the current record through MLRS before acting on it.
Free users can search by county. Paid plans add search by claim serial number, plus each claim's full legal (aliquot) description and BLM records link.
Staked Maps currently tracks 17,180 current federal mining claim/site records and 66,244 historical claim records from BLM MLRS, plus 967 Mineral County, NV mineral-occurrence records derived from USGS MRDS.
A premium map layer of documented mineral occurrences, prospects and mines sourced from USGS MRDS and labeled by material where available. These records are research leads, not a directory of verified public collecting sites.
Yes — the live map covers all of Nevada, not just Mineral County. Other Nevada counties with a dedicated page: Elko County, Nye County, Humboldt County and Lander County.
Mineral County Recorder's Office is Mineral County, NV's primary office for filing and researching mining claims — see the Official Filing & Information Links section above for the direct link and more resources.
Regulatory and editorial content last reviewed against official records · Source: Mineral County Recorder's Office · USGS MRDS
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