Bryan, I am working on how to instructions to research the same. I have asked a friend to mine to research a mining claim in another county. This person does not have any experience in researching the same. I am going to provide them with step by step instructions. Once we have gone through this process, then I will post the same, plus additional information. As to your questions about where mining claims they are recorded in each county. How the title passes is another story, but that I will elaborate later. In addition many mining districts, also organized and then there are the minute books, in which the miners met, and set up their own laws and regulations. These are fascinating books, which usually do not show up on a County Recorder's list of records, because they only have an indirect relation to title to property. Tim