Mining Claim Owners in The United States
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The hardrock mining industry owns gold, silver, and other precious metals and minerals beneath an estimated 5.6 million acres of U.S. public land, resources worth billions of dollars a year, acquired for as little as $0.84 per acre and held in perpetuity for a yearly rental fee as low as $0.62 an acre. Under a 132-year-old law originally intended to spur development of the West, an industry dominated by a handful of multinational corporations pays no federal royalties, and leaves behind a landscape of dramatically diminished value, scarred with tunnels, pits, and toxic waste piles.
Mining Claim Owners 1-20 of 28,408: (ranked by acres claimed)
Companies have been consolidated to account for subsidiaries. View this table without consolidation.
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| Company/Individual | Headquarters | Number of Claims | Acreage Claimed | Date(s) Filed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newmont Mining Corp | Denver, CO | 17,643 | 347,458 | 1886 to 2003 |
| 2 | Placer Dome Inc | World HQ in Canada | 13,766 | 268,758 | 1886 to 2003 |
| 3 | Rio Tinto Limited | World HQ in Australia | 10,097 | 191,928 | 1886 to 2003 |
| 4 | Barrick Gold Corporation | World HQ in Canada | 5,768 | 125,956 | 1905 to 2003 |
| 5 | Phelps Dodge Mining Co | Phoenix, AZ | 7,105 | 124,297 | 1906 to 2000 |
| 6 | Kinross | World HQ in Canada | 4,306 | 98,853 | 1905 to 2003 |
| 7 | Cameco Corp | World HQ in Canada | 3,209 | 66,204 | 1953 to 2002 |
| 8 | ASARCO, a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico | World HQ in Mexico | 3,187 | 61,801 | 1890 to 2003 |
| 9 | Dr Gordon Reynolds | Price, UT | 300 | 48,000 | 1997 to 1999 |
| 10 | Carl Pescio | Elko, NV | 2,277 | 46,996 | 1994 to 2003 |
| 11 | Anglo American Mining | World HQ in UK | 2,131 | 44,026 | 1951 to 2003 |
| 12 | Seabridge Gold Corp | World HQ in Canada | 2,125 | 43,903 | 1956 to 2003 |
| 13 | Meridian Gold Company | Reno, NV | 2,181 | 42,483 | 1936 to 2000 |
| 14 | AMCOL International Corp | Arlington Heights, IL | 1,535 | 41,050 | 1920 to 2003 |
| 15 | Western States Minerals Corp | Wheat Ridge, CO | 1,976 | 40,939 | 1917 to 2003 |
| 16 | BHP Billton | World HQ in Australia | 2,287 | 40,213 | 1900 to 2002 |
| 17 | David Driggers | Price, UT | 248 | 39,680 | 1997 to 1998 |
| 18 | Noranda Expl Inc | World HQ in Canada | 1,990 | 39,307 | 1913 to 2000 |
| 19 | Becki M Vincent | Las Vegas, NV | 244 | 39,040 | 1993 to 2000 |
| 20 | Walter B Simmons II | Las Vegas, NV | 243 | 38,880 | 1999 to 2000 |
Some of the claimants in this table may be in partnership with other individuals or companies with a claim to the same land.