Staking new claims — the claims door

Don't have claims yet — or adding more ground? The claims door turns a layout on your project map into a filed claim block without leaving geoDB.

Three ways in

• Lay it out. The claim layout toolbench places standard 600′ × 1500′ lode claims you can move, rotate, snap and rename until the layout is right, then save as a block. Turn on the land layers — claim density, PLSS sections, land status — to see what ground is open while you work.
• Upload it. Already laid out in other software? Upload the file (KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, GeoPackage or a zipped shapefile) and each polygon becomes a proposed claim.
• Ask us. Rather we did the layout? The request form takes the area, roughly how many claims and anything we should know; our claims team plans it and quotes you first.

Either way, the claims land as a claim block — a named batch like "Bear Creek Phase 1" — on your own project.

What a claim block is

A block is the unit our staking service works in: your proposal, then one package of staking, location notices, county recording and BLM filing. You'll get an email when the block is created and as it moves; the claim blocks page shows every block's status and its claims.

What happens next

Our claims team reviews every block before anything is staked — checking the layout against land status, ownership and terrain, and producing the authoritative claim geometry for filing. Your uploaded or laid-out layout is the proposal; the reviewed version is what gets staked on the ground and filed. Pricing and invoicing are confirmed with you before work begins.