Terms of Use

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and USMiner ("USMiner", "we", "us"), which operates Imagery Atlas at imageryatlas.com and its related pages, tools and services, including the map, the Claims Desk, the Precious Metals Toolkit and any data services behind them (together, the "Site"). By accessing or using the Site you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to use the Site, or use it under the supervision of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms. If you use the Site for a company or other organization, you agree to these Terms on its behalf and confirm you have authority to do so.

2. Information only, not professional advice

The Site is provided for general information, research, education and planning. Nothing on the Site is legal, surveying, title, engineering, geological, environmental, financial or investment advice, and nothing on the Site replaces the official records of any government agency or the work of a licensed professional. Do not rely on the Site alone to decide whether land is open to mineral entry, who owns land or minerals, where a boundary lies, whether a claim is valid, active or available, or whether a property or prospect has value.

3. Data sources and accuracy

Most of what the Site shows comes from others: federal agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Geological Survey, state geological surveys and agencies, counties, and commercial and open map providers. Some of it is held in copies we keep and refresh from time to time, so it may be older than the source. We do not create, control or guarantee this information, and it may contain errors, omissions and gaps.

In particular:

• Locations are often approximate. Mining claims, for example, are mostly recorded only by township, range, section and aliquot part. The Site draws each claim at the most precise level its records allow (the claim's own outline, a quarter-quarter, a quarter or a whole section), and a claim may lie anywhere within the area drawn, or partly outside it where the records are wrong. Parcel lines, wells, mines and sample sites may also be misplaced.
• Status changes. Claims are located, transferred and closed; land is withdrawn or opened; parcels change hands. Information on the Site may not reflect recent changes, pending filings or records the source has not yet published. Dates shown on the Site (for example, the date of our last BLM extract) tell you how current our copy is.
• Records can be incomplete or inconsistent. Source agencies make mistakes, and their records do not always agree with each other or with conditions on the ground.
• Interpretations are not facts. Geologic maps, mineral potential and prospectivity maps, geophysics, satellite alteration imagery and similar layers are models or interpretations. They are not proof that any mineral, deposit or resource exists at any place.

4. You must verify all information

You are solely responsible for verifying any information from the Site before you rely on it or act on it, including by checking the official records of the responsible agency (for mining claims, the BLM's Mineral & Land Records System and the county recorder; for land status, the land-managing agency; for ownership, the county assessor and recorder), by consulting qualified professionals such as surveyors, attorneys and geologists, and by observing conditions on the ground. Any decision you make using information from the Site is yours alone.

5. No permission to access land or collect

The appearance of any place on the Site, including a mine, prospect, mining claim, mineral locality, fossil site, well, parcel, trail, historic site or area of public land, does not mean or imply that:

• it is public land, open to the public, or legally accessible, or that any road or route to it may be used;
• you may enter it, prospect, sample, collect, dig, detect, stake a claim or conduct any other activity there;
• it is open to mineral entry, unclaimed, or free of existing mining claims, leases, withdrawals or other rights;
• minerals, specimens, fossils or anything of value can be found there; or
• it is safe to visit.

Before visiting or working any site, you must obtain every permission required by law, which may include permission from the surface owner, the mineral owner, any mining claimant, lessee or operator, and any government agency or tribe with authority over the land. Private land, tribal land, existing mining claims, withdrawn land, wilderness and other protected areas carry their own restrictions. The Site does not grant, and we cannot grant, any right of access or use.

6. Following the law

You are responsible for knowing and obeying all laws, regulations, permits and rules that apply to what you do, including federal and state mining laws and claim location, recording and maintenance-fee requirements; surface management rules for exploration and mining; trespass laws; laws protecting archaeological, cultural, historic and paleontological resources (such as the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and the Paleontological Resources Preservation Act); environmental, water and reclamation laws; vehicle, fire and land-use restrictions; and the rules of any agency managing the land.

7. Safety and assumption of risk

Prospecting, mining, field geology and travel in remote country are dangerous. Hazards include abandoned mine shafts, adits and open pits that can collapse or contain bad air, water or explosives; unstable ground and spoil; flash floods, extreme heat and cold, wildlife, remote terrain without help or phone service; vehicle accidents; and hazardous materials. Never enter abandoned mine workings. Stay out and stay alive.

You use the Site, and visit or work any place you learned about through the Site, entirely at your own risk. You voluntarily assume all risks of injury, illness, death, property damage, loss and legal liability that may arise from your activities, whether or not those risks are known, described on the Site or foreseeable.

8. Responsible use of locations

Careless use of location information can damage sites, harm cultural and natural resources, create conflicts with landowners and claimants, and lead to land being closed to everyone. Please respect private property and existing claims, leave gates as you find them, stay on authorized routes, pack out what you bring in, and leave cultural and historic sites undisturbed.

9. No warranties

The Site and everything on it are provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, USMiner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, secure or free of errors or harmful components, or that any information on it is correct or current.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, USMiner and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, data providers and agents will not be liable for any injury, illness or loss of life; damage to or loss of property or equipment; loss of earnings, profits, revenue, business, investment, mining claims, mineral rights or opportunities; fines, penalties, citations, lawsuits, claims by landowners, claimants or agencies, or any other legal consequences; loss of data; or any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the Site or any information obtained from it, or any visit to or activity at any place shown on it, however caused and under any theory of liability (contract, tort including negligence, strict liability or otherwise), even if we were told such damages were possible.

If, despite the above, USMiner is found liable to you, our total liability for all claims relating to the Site is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Site in the twelve months before the claim arose and one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be excluded or certain liabilities to be limited. In those places the exclusions and limits above apply to the fullest extent the law allows.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless USMiner and its owners, officers, employees, contractors and agents from any claims, demands, damages, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) made by any third party, including landowners, mining claimants and government agencies, arising from your use of the Site, your activities at any place, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of others.

12. Acceptable use

The Site is for people using it through its normal interface, one search at a time. You agree not to:

• use bots, scrapers, crawlers, spiders, scripts, browser automation, AI agents or any other automated means to access, query, download, copy or extract content or data from the Site or its data services, except search engines indexing public pages as allowed by our robots.txt;
• copy, collect, compile or download data from the Site in bulk or systematically (for example by running searches area by area, name by name or date by date), or keep copies of more than you need for your own individual use;
• use the Site or anything from it to build, populate, correct, update or check any other database, map, dataset, product or service, whether or not it competes with the Site;
• use content or data from the Site to train, fine-tune, test or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, or put it into any AI system's index, retrieval store or dataset;
• get around or interfere with any usage limit, result cap, access control, rate limit or security measure, including by using multiple accounts, devices or addresses, sharing logins, or disguising where requests come from;
• call the Site's data services (anything under /api/) except through the Site's own pages as a visitor would, or frame, embed or mirror the Site or its content within another site or application;
• reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Site's code, configuration, service set-up or compiled data;
• resell, sublicense, rent or commercially redistribute the Site, its content or access to it;
• overload or disrupt the Site or the services it relies on, test its vulnerabilities without our written permission, or use it for anything unlawful, harmful, harassing or fraudulent, including using owner or claimant information to harass, stalk or solicit anyone in violation of law; or
• remove or obscure copyright notices, credits, attributions or the Site's name from anything you are allowed to use.

Personal information shown on the Site, such as the names and mailing addresses of claimants and landowners, comes from public records. Use it only for lawful purposes, for your own research, and in line with any rules of the agency that published it.

13. Copyright and ownership

The Site and its contents are owned by USMiner and protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, database and other laws. This includes the Site's software, code and configuration; its design, text, graphics, icons and logos; the way it selects, arranges, coordinates and presents map layers and data from many sources; and the data we create or compile, including our processed copies of public records, mapped claim locations and shapes, search indexes, catalogs, classifications, derived layers and summaries.

"Imagery Atlas", "Earth OSINT", "Claims Desk" and our logos are trademarks of USMiner. You may not use them in a way that suggests we sponsor or endorse you, your product or your service.

Some underlying source records are public domain or published by others under their own terms. Our rights cover our own work: our compilation, selection, arrangement, processing, corrections, locations and presentation of that information. These Terms do not limit any right you have to obtain public records directly from the agency that publishes them.

14. No reuse of our data without permission

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable permission to view and use the Site for your own individual research and planning, under these Terms. Within that permission you may:

• look things up, one search at a time, and take notes for your own use;
• print or save screenshots of map views for your own personal, non-commercial use, or to share privately with a partner or advisor working on the same project, provided "Imagery Atlas" and the map's credits stay visible; and
• download files only through features of the Site that offer a download, for your own use and within any limits that apply to you.

Everything else requires our prior written permission. Without it, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, license, publicly display, transmit, translate, adapt or create derivative works from the Site, its content or its data, in whole or in part, whether for free or for profit, including posting our data, maps or downloads on other websites, in apps, in reports or publications for sale, or in datasets shared with others. Downloads from the Site are licensed to you for your own use, not sold, and may not be shared or resold.

To ask for permission, a commercial license or a data partnership, write to [email protected]. Any permission must be in writing from USMiner to be valid.

15. Monitoring and enforcement

We monitor use of the Site and its data services to protect it, and we may limit, block or ban any user, account, device, network or address that we believe is scraping, automating, overloading or otherwise breaking these Terms, without notice. Unauthorized copying or extraction of our content or data can cause us serious and lasting harm that money alone may not repair, so in addition to any other remedy we may seek an injunction or other court order to stop it, and we may pursue all remedies available to us under copyright, contract and other law, including recovery of our costs and reasonable attorneys' fees where allowed. Accounts used to break these Terms may be closed.

16. Third-party content and services

The Site displays maps, imagery and data from third parties (for example Google, Esri, government agencies and others) and links to other websites. Their content belongs to them and is subject to their own terms, which you must also follow; for example, base map imagery may not be copied or extracted. We are not responsible for third-party content, availability or practices, and a link or layer is not an endorsement.

17. Copyright complaints

We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent at [email protected] that includes: your signature; identification of the copyrighted work; identification of the material you believe infringes and where it appears on the Site; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. We may remove or disable material in response to valid notices.

18. Feedback

If you send us feedback, suggestions or corrections, you allow us to use them for any purpose without obligation to you.

19. Changes to the site and these terms

We may change, suspend or remove any part of the Site, including layers, data, tools and limits, at any time without notice. We may also update these Terms; the "Last updated" date above shows when. Changes apply from when they are posted, and using the Site after that means you accept them.

20. Suspension and termination

We may limit, suspend or end your access to the Site at any time, including if we believe you have broken these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 3 through 17 and 21) continue to apply after your use ends, and any copies of our content or data you were not permitted to keep must be deleted.

21. General

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and USMiner about the Site and replace any earlier understanding. If any part is found unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours. Headings and the short version at the top are for convenience only and do not limit the full Terms.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms, permission requests and licensing: [email protected].