§23 — Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining | U.S. Code

Summary

Claims before May 10, 1872 keep the rules then in force. Claims after May 10, 1872 cannot be located until the vein is discovered within the claim, may be up to 1,500 feet along the vein, extend 25–300 feet on each side of the vein’s middle at the surface unless prior rights on May 10, 1872 require less, and have parallel end lines.

Title 30, §23

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Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, located prior to May 10, 1872, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location. A mining claim located after the 10th day of May 1872, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the 10th day of May 1872 render such limitation necessary. The end lines of each claim shall be parallel to each other.

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 2320 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, § 2, 17 Stat. 91.

§23 Length of claims on veins or lodes

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Title 30, §23

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