100 bucks a claim a year.
Cheap, really. If the claim can be patented, it's even cheaper. All we'd need is a couple to hold the ground, lease them to a Junior Company for exploration, get a small royalty if it gets mined or sell the claim out right.
Before that, it's a beautiful place to camp. Way off the beaten path, great view of the Sangre de Christo Mountains, Pikes Peak, etc. Nice pinyon-juniper forest with big towering ponderosa pines, seen wild turkeys up there, deer, bear...
Who wants to be pardners?
On second thought, it was a designated roadless area ('till just recently), on line to be designated wilderness area, it really is pretty, maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and leave the Thorium where were it is.
jms