Title 34, Mineral Resources

No location certificate shall claim more than one location, whether the location is made by one or several locators. If it purports to claim more than one location it shall be absolutely void, except as to the first location therein described, and if they are described together, …

(1) Before filing such location certificate, the discoverer shall locate his claim by: (a) Sinking a discovery shaft upon the lode to the depth of at least ten feet from the lowest part of the rim of such shaft at the surface, or deeper if necessary, to show a well-defined crevic…

Such surface boundaries shall be marked by six substantial posts hewed or marked on the sides which are in toward the claim, and sunk in the ground, one at each corner and one at the center of each side line. Where it is practically impossible on account of bedrock to sink such p…

Any open cut, crosscut, or tunnel which cuts a lode at the depth of ten feet below the surface shall hold such lode, the same as if a discovery shaft were sunk thereon, or an adit of at least ten feet in along the lode, from the point where the lode may be in any manner discovere…

The discoverer shall have sixty days from the time of uncovering or disclosing a lode to sink a discovery shaft thereon. Source: L. 1874: p. 187, § 8. G.L. § 1818. G.S. § 2404. R.S. 08: § 4200. C.L. § 3286. CSA: C. 110, § 176. CRS 53: § 92-22-9. C.R.S. 1963: § 92-22-9. ANNOTATION…

The location or location certificate of any lode claim shall be construed to include all surface ground within the surface lines thereof, and all lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such lines extended downward, vertically, with…

If the top or apex of a lode in its longitudinal course extends beyond the exterior lines of the claim at any point on the surface, or as extended vertically downward, such lode may not be followed in its longitudinal course beyond the point where it is intersected by the exterio…

(1) The discoverer of a placer claim, within thirty days from the date of discovery, shall record his claim in the office of the recorder of the county in which said claim is situated by a location certificate, which shall contain: (a) The name of the claim, designating it as a p…

If any person locates a tunnel claim for the purpose of discovery, he shall record the same, specifying the place of commencement and termination thereof with the names of the parties interested therein. Source: R.S. p. 465, § 4. G.L. § 1800. G.S. § 2389. R.S. 08: § 4207. C.L. § …

(1) On or before December 30th of each year following the end of any set time or annual period allowed for the performance of labor or making improvements upon any lode claim or placer claim, or for the payment of an annual claim rental fee as required by federal law in lieu of s…

If at any time the locator of any mining claim, or his assigns, apprehends that his original certificate is defective, erroneous, or that the requirements of the law had not been complied with before filing, or is desirous of changing his surface boundaries, or of taking in any p…

The relocation of abandoned lode claims shall be by sinking a new discovery shaft and fixing new boundaries in the same manner as if it were the location of a new claim; or the relocator may sink the original discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it was at the time of abandonment,…