The Toiyabe Mining Association Cooperative (TMA) was established to help individuals take advantage of the 1872 mining law by assisting them to stake mining claims on locatable minerals discovered by Cedar Strat on federal lands open for location.

TMA is committed to developing these resources to:

• Cedar Strat discovered the locatable minerals by advancing the only digital Great Basin geological survey with surface gamma ray logs for the last forty years.
• The survey was initiated by Shell Oil Company in the early 1950’s because Nevada authorities never authorized a geological survey of the state and the geological survey of western Utah is woefully inadequate.
• X ray fluorescent (XRF) analyses of nearly 2000 of 6000 samples collected by the survey show elevated concentrations of more than thirty of the fifty minerals (elements) listed by the United States Geological Survey that are critical for America’s defense and economic independence.
• So far XRF analyses of the samples also reveal thirty three locations or prospects of gold concentrations that are higher than producing gold mines in Nevada.
• Most of the thirty three prospects are located on land open for location.
• The first six of 2500 unpatented mining claims were staked for founding TMA members on the 28th gold prospect. Staking contractors are in the process of staking the remaining claims for TMA members. Sixteen samples with an average concentration of 5.91 parts per million (ppm) gold confirm the two gold-bearing zones that extend sixteen miles along strike. The gold is associated with hydrocarbon generation and migration. Ten of the samples were sent to ALS laboratory for certified fire gold assays and results will soon be posted here.
• Dr. Chamberlain and Larry McMaster, Cedar Strat’s seasoned mineral geologist, collected and sent 18 samples to two different laboratories for additional analysis in early May, 2024. Soon claims will be staked for TMA members on the remaining thirty-four gold prospects.
• Nearly all the $1000/claim have been taken. The next 1000 claims will cost $2000/claim, and the next 1000 claims will cost $3000/claim and so forth. If gold is found in the 18 samples a wealthy investor is interested in taking all the remaining claims of TMA’s 28th prospect. After he takes the remaining claims, new claims will cost $4000 or more.
• Soon claims will be staked for TMA members on the remaining thirty-two gold prospects.
• Additional gold prospects will likely be discovered and staked as TMA analyzes the remaining 5,000 samples in Cedar Strat’s sample library.
• The prospects will be leased and/or sold to interested junior mining companies.
• Cedar Strat attended the 2024 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Convention in Toronto March 3-6 www.pdac.ca/convention. -and met many junior mining companies who are interested in our prospects. Elvatech, another XRF manufacturer and who had a booth at PDAC offered to analyze ten samples on their instruments. They found nearly double the concentration of gold that were found using Cedar Strat’s Thermal Fisher Scientific Niton XRF analyzer.
• Revenues from the claims will shared equally and proportionately with TMA members.