A 40×40 board. 1,600 claims. One fixed daily haul, split across everyone working a claim. The haul never grows — the table just keeps filling.
Nobody is diluted by inflation here, because nothing is ever minted. A new prospector is paid out of the share of everyone already digging. That is the entire game, and it is why the board is worth taking early — not because early ground is stronger, but because it is cheaper, and because fewer people were splitting the same haul when you took it.
The mine pays 200,000 $PROSPECT a day. Not more when the crowd arrives, not less when it thins. Your claim takes the fraction of that its mining power represents.
The clock does not run on an empty board: with nothing staked, no reserve is spent.
A claim is a working plot. It never expires and it never stops producing. What changes over time is the size of its slice, because the board fills and the same haul splits more ways.
Price = 20,000 + 150 × claims already staked. Claim #1 costs 20,000; claim #1,600 costs 259,850.
Each orthogonal neighbour you also own, inside the same filon, adds +10% to a claim's power — up to +40%. A vein never crosses a filon wall. Position is leverage.
Hold all 16 claims of a filon and every one of them gains a further +50%. The first address to do it is crowned Baron of that filon — 100 in existence at the very most, and most will never be minted.
The title is permanent: selling the claims afterwards does not take it back.
You buy claims with $PROSPECT and claims produce $PROSPECT. 70% of every purchase is destroyed, 25% goes to the staked Barons and 5% to the operator. Nothing accumulates in the mine.
With no Baron staked, that 25% is burned too. A pot waiting for a first staker would just be a lottery.
A vault holds tokenized commodities that already trade on this chain — gold, silver, oil. Burn $PROSPECT into it and you receive your pro-rata slice of the basket, in the same transaction.
That is a claim on a quantity of metal, not on a price. Commodities can fall.
Every filon was graded once, at deploy, from a seed burned into the mine. There is no fog of war and no reveal: the richest ground is visible to everybody from the first block. What you are competing for is position and timing, not information.
Seed
Measured on Robinhood Chain: 18 decimals each, and GLD has the deepest book of the three.