Filing a violation report is never covering someone's back and the comments you made while doing so clearly show your motivation.

What I'm showing is not "what got keyed into a government system." It is a record of changes that are in force. The world does not use physical paper anymore for these things and nor do they use physical stakes in the ground. These are records of what has happened, not requests.

Claims are staked online and registered for everyone to see. Carmax knew that they had to file their work expenses to move the Good To date forward and they did that. They moved the date to February 2019. It's all in the record.

Then, they amalgamated the claims. The rules for amalgamation clearly state that the earliest date applies to the amalgamated claims. So the date reverted back to April 2016. They would have seen that online the moment they processed the amalgamation. Anyone can read it even today.

They just didn't understand the rules, or bother to read the online information. They made a mistake.

The 'vultures' as you like to call them that picked up the dropped claims did so legally. It's not their fault.

I believe that the Gold Commissioner is just giving them a week to sort things out. I can't see why they would allow someone to make such a mistake and then reverse it for them. It would open up a whole problem for everyone who then lets a claim go forefeit because they weren't paying attention.