"The rocks are ours": recreational mining isn't about getting rich, it's about fresh air and exercise, 20 acres at a time

From an article today on recreational mining:

"Claims are filed with the Bureau of Land Management and cost $175 for the first year and $50 to renew. A claim must be at least 20 acres, and its holder owns the mineral rights to the property but not the land itself. The Friendly Fox claim is 160 acres.

"We can't stop you from going out there and camping on that claim, but you can't go picking up any rocks, because the rocks are ours," Wilkerson said."