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Today's Edition Presented By · ChoraQuest — GIS & Mineral Title Services for the Western U.S.
A Stake & Paper Monthly Feature
The Staking Report
Every new federal mining claim in America — mapped, counted, and named. Who staked, where, and how much, county by county, every month.
Latest Issue
The Staking Report: September 2026BHP staked 2,443 federal mining claims across two Alaska boroughs in May, 38.7% of every claim located in the country that month. Three weeks past the September 1 fee deadline, 36,534 claims still show no payment of record. And 204 new claims are on file at BLM that no published dataset has yet.September 6, 2026Past Issues
About the Data
Every figure in The Staking Report comes from BLM MLRS public records, keyed to each claim's actual location date — when the ground was staked, not when the agency recorded it. Each issue features the most recent month whose recordation is substantially complete, and figures are verified against ClaimWatch, ChoraQuest's mining claims intelligence platform, before publication.
Learn more about the platform behind the data at claimwatch.io.