Hydro Res Inc
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Hydro Res Inc is one of 92,125 beneficiaries of a 132-year-old federal mining law that gives away precious metals, minerals, and even the title to the land itself for less than $10 an acre. Hydro Res Inc owns the minerals under an estimated 1,550 acres of claimed land giving Hydro Res Inc more total land holdings (claims and patents) than 98.1% of all other mining interests.
Headquarters641 E Fm #1118 |
Information on subsidiaries and parent companies shown here represents our best estimate of corporate structure at the time of this website release, and are drawn from various publicly available sources. Please report any noted omissions and errors to EWG with a credible source or citation. Thank you.
Overview of Ownership
| Claims | Patents | Mining Plans & Notices | |||||||
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| Number | 75 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Estimated Acreage | 1,550 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
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Source: EWG analysis of US BLM data.
Examples of Mines
These mines are owned by Hydro Res Inc, its subsidiaries, or its parent company.
| Name of Mine | Location of Mine | Mine Status | Metal Mined | Map Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crownpoint | Mckinley County, NM | Proposed | Uranium | map |
Source: EWG analysis.
Claims
Like all U.S. claimholders, Hydro Res Inc acquired ownership of precious metals and minerals on U.S. public land for about $2 per acre, and maintains possession of the claim with a small per-acre fee, typically $5 each year. Hydro Res Inc pays no royalties to the federal government for metals and minerals mined from this land.
For Hydro Res Inc:
- Ranking among U.S. claimholders: 1,547 for total acreage claimed (along with 6 others) of 28,405 total claimholders.
- Current claimed land holdings exceed total claimed acreage for: 94.5% of all other claimants
- Total acres of public lands claimed: 1,550 acres
Claims by State.
| State | Number of Claims | Estimated Acreage | Date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 75 | 1,550 | 1968 - 1991 |
| U.S. Total | 75 | 1,550 | 1968 - 1991 |
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Source: EWG analysis of US BLM data.
Source: EWG analysis of Bureau of Land Management's Land and Mineral Records 2000 (LR2000) data system. For claims, acreages are estimated based on maximum allowable size of claims. For patents, acreages are taken directly from the LR2000 database where available, and are estimated based on maximum allowable size of claim that preceded the patent where acreages are not noted in LR2000. All notices are assumed to be five acres in size, and the size of plans are calculated directly as the size of the land represented by the legal land description in the LR2000 database. The acreages we estimate through these methods would tend to overestimate the actual amount. We welcome corrections here, and would welcome a federal data management system that included the acreages involved in these important federal land transactions.