Most people have no idea that a 154 year old U.S. law still allows any citizen (and some companies) to stake a mining claim on public land - and keep what they find, without paying any royalties. So I decided to do the whole thing, start to finish, on camera.
In this video I walk through every step of the process: researching and locating a viable claim site, filing the paperwork with the BLM, physically staking the claim in the field, mining the material, and then refining it all the way down to a poured silver bar worth around $500.
No shortcuts. No prior claim. Just the actual process, documented in full.
NO DATA FOUND. INITIATE FIRST COMMENT SEQUENCE.